Google AdSense vs. Microsoft Advertising

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AdSense
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Google AdSense provides a way for publishers to earn money from their online content. AdSense works by matching ads to your site based on your content and visitors. The ads are created and paid for by advertisers who want to promote their products. Since these advertisers pay different prices for different ads, the amount you earn will vary. AdSense displays relevant ads to your site visitors next to your content and allows you to customize the look and feel of ads to match your site.N/A
Microsoft Advertising
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) contains Microsoft's advertising solutions. Advertising formats include search (Microsoft Search ads), Display and Native ads, Retail Media, and Video and Connected TV (CTV) ads. Services include Performance Max, the company's conversion optimization AI assistant and guide.N/A
Pricing
Google AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Google AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
Considered Both Products
AdSense
Microsoft Advertising
Chose Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft is the best if you want to target the USA business; it has a great standing against these other platforms.
Features
Google AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
Google AdSense
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Ratings
Microsoft Advertising
6.2
6 Ratings
2% below category average
Ad campaign creation00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Ad deployment00 Ratings8.16 Ratings
Display advertising00 Ratings5.76 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings6.06 Ratings
Sequence targeting00 Ratings5.85 Ratings
Contextual advertising00 Ratings5.46 Ratings
Social advertising00 Ratings4.85 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Google AdSense
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Ratings
Microsoft Advertising
6.3
8 Ratings
7% below category average
Ad dashboards00 Ratings5.88 Ratings
Ad performance reports00 Ratings6.37 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings6.66 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings5.75 Ratings
Ad Auctions
Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Product A and Product B
Google AdSense
-
Ratings
Microsoft Advertising
7.0
7 Ratings
17% below category average
Ad bidding00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Google AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
Small Businesses
Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
Score 7.7 out of 10
WordStream
WordStream
Score 6.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
Score 7.7 out of 10
WordStream
WordStream
Score 6.9 out of 10
Enterprises
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
Score 8.4 out of 10
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(7 ratings)
6.9
(70 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(11 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
I think any company selling a product or service can benefit from Google AdSense advertising as long as they come with a strategy of who to target with their Ad campaigns. If you just blanket anything and everything with your Google Ads it won't be as effective, and you will be wasting your spend
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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
  • Excellent Ads type and useful content
  • Excellent follow up and analytics
  • Secure your particular ads by following the plagiarism bloggers who steal your content. It happens to me and Google AdSense aware about these thief's by tracking my Google Adsense particular ad code
  • Excellent revenue for the bloggers who are honest about their content
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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
  • Google AdSense should monetize mobile applications
  • Google AdSense should monetize Mac native applications and games
  • Google AdSense should pay out more for a click for tier 1 countries traffic
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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
I feel that Google AdSense has a plethora of features and detailed options for you to utilize when building campaigns. I do think there is room to make it more user friendly for beginning users. I had to request help from my Marketing team to build campaigns. Ultimately, that improvement would push my scoring to a 10.
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Microsoft
It's very easy to use overall. It has an import from Google Ads to make things simpler. Overall, I would say you can get up and running very quickly. It's similar to other platforms, so if you have used them, it's intuitive.
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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
In addition to Taboola, we also looked at Amazon Associates. I believe the latter could have a place as a source of revenue for many small websites. As stated earlier, Adsense is simply the largest and easiest to use service out there for small to medium-sized websites. It offers the best tools and easiest path to monitization.
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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
  • Helps us strategize better around potential ad revenue models
  • Helps us evaluate the impact of ads on the user experience on the front end
  • The optimization recommendations have generated an improvement revenue-wise
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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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