Google AdMob vs. Microsoft Advertising

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google AdMob
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
AdMob is a mobile advertising platform acquired by Google in 2010.N/A
Microsoft Advertising
Score 3.5 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) is Microsoft's search engine marketing and advertising campaign management alternative to the popular Adwords, that, similar to its competitor, provides analytics and a management dashboard for running a pay per click (PPC) paid listing campaign. Microsoft Advertising features the ability to delimit advertising to particular responsive demographics and to intermittent times and days of the week. It also supports offline updates that sync later.N/A
Pricing
Google AdMobMicrosoft Advertising
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google AdMobMicrosoft Advertising
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Google AdMobMicrosoft Advertising
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
Google AdMob
-
Ratings
Microsoft Advertising
1.0
2 Ratings
90% below category average
Ad campaign creation00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Ad deployment00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Display advertising00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Sequence targeting00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Contextual advertising00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Social advertising00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Google AdMob
-
Ratings
Microsoft Advertising
1.0
3 Ratings
86% below category average
Ad dashboards00 Ratings1.03 Ratings
Ad performance reports00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Ad Auctions
Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Product A and Product B
Google AdMob
-
Ratings
Microsoft Advertising
1.0
2 Ratings
0% above category average
Ad bidding00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
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Google AdMobMicrosoft Advertising
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Score 7.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Yahoo Native
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WordStream Advisor
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Score 7.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Marin Software
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google AdMobMicrosoft Advertising
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(9 ratings)
1.2
(65 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(11 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google AdMobMicrosoft Advertising
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
Google AdMob is the best choice in my opinion for any developer or company looking for a reliable way to monetize their app traffic and generate revenue from relevant ads displayed inside their mobile app, and it can be easily integrated into any IOS or Android App.
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Microsoft
Despite using our account for advertising with every other social media company, Microsoft flagged ours as fraudulent. After dealing with them for weeks, we finally got to a manager, who said that they didn’t know anything, couldn’t provide any information, and was unable to do anything about it. It seems odd, but it would flagger account every time we try to upload the campaigns from Google directly into their ad manager. I would suggest if you try and use their platform, don’t tell them you’re using Google cause they seem to have a thing against it. Once your account is flagged, they have no reasonable way of resolving it, nor they are able to offer any support. You’re better off to just try a different way. Ultimately, just don’t use Microsoft advertising if you can possibly avoid it. Hopefully soon DuckDuckGo will have their own advertising platform and we can eliminate Microsoft given the terrible time we have working with this one of many, social media platforms.
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Pros
Google
  • Provides a complete ad verification system.
  • Integration with Google Analytics.
  • Transmission customization
  • Ad network mediation is a great feature to manage many ad networks at the same time.
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Microsoft
  • Familiar interface, offers editor for bulk changes, adding negative keywords is much easier than in Google Ads
  • Nice reporting tools within the interface, detailed reports can be made fairly easily
  • Had very nice tools to help import/export ads directly from Google Ads, which saves a ton of time
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Cons
Google
  • AdMob bans people unnecessarily.
  • Earnings is significantly less if you use it as a small business owner.
  • Onboarding needs some major work in my opinion.
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Microsoft
  • Bing's ad platform could definitely use some improvements - it hasn't been updated in a long time, and it feels very outdated.
  • We feel that the optimization algorithms don't always perform as well for Bing Ads as they do in Google Ads (optimize for conversions, etc.).
  • It would be great to have even more integrations with LinkedIn audience targeting offered - right now, you can just make some bid optimizations in a couple of areas; we'd really like to get more robust options there, and maybe even things like cross-platform tracking.
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
We have had good success with it over all of our clients. We continually recommend bing to reach "the rest of the searchers".
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Usability
Google
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Usability itself is all right, I just wish it looked better.
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Support Rating
Google
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Our Bing Ads reps are very good and attentive. They've offered good recommendations and are quick to resolve unexpected issues and problems. Occasionally they have roped in technical support folks that have been friendly and helpful too. The general helpline for Bing Ads is also very good, especially when compared to Google's customer support.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
No special reason for choosing Google AdMob. Out point is easy to gain appropriate knowledge from youtube.com and people who work with us. We won't have another similar application so far. However, we feel it works well and makes us happy because of easy function and experience. So I recommend this if we need to apply this for our company activity.
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Microsoft
Obviously Google is a huge competitor. Typically Google is top of the game for many advertising solutions including search. Microsoft ads has a lower scale and reach compared to Google. However, Microsoft ads audience does not overlap much with Googles, providing incremental reach. Although Microsoft ads lags a bit behind in adapting the new updates that Google comes out with, their customer service is very good and they are likely to go out of their way to adapt their platform to your needs whereas their competitor does not
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Return on Investment
Google
  • AdMob advertising is maybe the main or second main source of revenue for our company.
  • Having said that AdMob can improve in many aspects.
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Microsoft
  • We've had a very hard time spending our budgets on Bing which has caused us a lot of extra work on our end. We've essentially had to move that money back to Google or other platforms.
  • It does have an easy import from Google so you're not doubling efforts.
  • The CPCs tend to be less expensive than Google - which is always good for business owners.
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