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What is Microsoft Advertising?
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, The Worst ever
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Don't bother with Bing ads
Microsoft Advertising - Corruption at the highest level
Avoid! Not Recommended
Misleading and just wants your money, empty promises
Microsoft ads was conceived as Google ads competitor, but ended up poorly
Bing Ads
Great alternative to Google Ads!
Outstanding Advertising Mechanisms from Microsoft Advertising
Bing Ads - Honest Review
Bing Ads: A great compliment to Google Ads for your search marketing campaign.
Sustainable Marketing Program for Businesses
Don't sleep on Microsoft Ads!
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(1-25 of 26)Bing Ads
- Shows our Ads on a lot of syndicated partner sites that otherwise would be very difficult to show ads for.
- We can target on a broad scale or for a small audience. Managing everything is very easy.
- Downloading reports and making necessary changes is very easy and quick.
- Gets our ads to show to interested users at a cheaper CPC.
- Helps us get leads at a higher conversion rate.
- Would love to be able to run "call only" campaigns. Would help us get more calls from the ads.
Great alternative to Google Ads!
- Importing our Google Ads campaign was really easy and went very smoothly. I was worried we would have to engage a third party to set this up but I was able to do it myself without any issues.
- Cost per click is significantly lower than Google Ads.
- Works pretty well with Google Analytics to track performance.
- I wish their support team would be more proactive in reaching out to clients to make recommendations and improvements. Anytime we want to talk to them about improvements to our campaign we have to get in touch with them and set up a meeting.
- I would also like to see support for video ads from them.
- More promos. With Google Ads, I get regular promotions that give me a small discount on my ad spends. Microsoft needs to do this.
- Microsoft Advertising supports ads, on social sites mostly.
- The tool incorporates campaign management.
- Lastly, Microsoft Advertising supports paid search optimization, for SEO or high ranking.
- Microsoft Advertising speed is low and time consuming.
- Microsoft Advertising is rigid in content import or export.
- The tool is inflexible and hard to configure.
Don't sleep on Microsoft Ads!
- strong CPC performance
- ease of set up and UI structure
- Setting up pixels and audiences is very simple
- Bing is usually one step behind Googles updates
- scale is much lower than its competitor
- not as many bid automation options available
Microsoft advocate
- Paid search advertising
- Support
- Reporting
- Traffic volume
- Unique product offerings
- Smart shopping
Bing Ads - if you're not using it you're missing out
- Lower CPC (not always but usually).
- Better CTR (again not always but normally).
- Reach, especially in display.
Bing has not worked well for us in real estate or in house flipping. Bing tracking is a little less "plug and play" in Google Tag Manager but you can make it work.
Bing Ads (Microsoft Ads) is Small but Mighty
- More cost-effective inventory than Google Ads.
- Image ad extensions (not available in Google Ads, but very cool & effective feature for our more visually-branded clients).
- LinkedIn audience targeting integrations.
- 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.
Google Ads Import is Da Real MVP in Bing Ads
- Single handedly the best thing about Bing Ads is being able to import your Google Ads account directly into the platform. Without this and Bing Ads highlighting this, they wouldn't have many advertisers.
- Another nice perk of Bing Ads is their free credit when you sign up. Getting a $100 is nice and you don't have to spend $100 to get the $100, they just give it to you right away.
- Very similar to Google Ads, making the learning curve extremely small.
- The UI/UX could use a lot of work. It looks worse than the old Google Ads UI/UX and is a lot slower loading.
- One of the other draw backs of Bing Ads is their limited search inventory, which drives up CPCs, CPAs, etc.
- Most Bing users are an older generation because they use PCs or it's their work computer and these individuals aren't as comfortable / likely to checkout online. As a result, it's hard to drive a lot of conversions because of this adoption curve.
Great Secondary Platform for Search Marketers
- For the most part the UI mimics Google Ads, so there's not much of a learning curve
- With the right campaign structure and targeting, we can see great ROI, sometimes even exceeding that of Google Ads
- Direct and automated imports from Google Ads makes it easy to get a campaign up and running
- Search volume is much lower than what you see on Google
- Though the UET tracking codes are supposed to make tracking implementation simpler, I find it a bit more confusing than Google's implementation
- They tend to focus more on feature parity with Google, rather than creating compelling differentiators
A Decent Way To Fill The SEM Gap
- Easy to set up ads. The process of creating text ads is very similar to Google and can be done in just a few minutes without a lot of prior SEM knowledge.
- Easy to understand analytics suite. All the data we need for deciding if a campaign is successful is easily accessible.
- Bing is always giving suggestions on how to improve your ads, which are actually rather helpful rather than gimmicky or just trying to increase your budget. The Keyword suggestions are particularly helpful.
- Tracking is not supported on a lot of backend platforms. We have had quite a few issues getting the tracking set up because there's no simple way of adding the code to Shopify and Recurly (our two purchasing platforms).
- Support is mostly just sales in disguise. We've never had much luck getting hold of a support tech who can help us with issues, instead the conversations I've had always ended with "spend more money with us."
- The analytics suite is not quite as appealing or user-friendly as Google's. It takes a bit more searching to find all the custom analytics you may need.
- Unfortunately Bing is just not as popular a platform, so campaign traffic and ROI tends to be lower than when we use other SEM and paid marketing solutions (Google, Facebook, Reddit, etc...).
Bing Ads - An efficient use of your PPC dollars
Bing Ads simply does NOT have the scale that Google Ads has, with many less searches coming in daily. As for ease of use, Bing has some slight quirks that make it just a little harder to work with than Google. Nothing that should keep you from using it, but it's usually a supplement to Google than a replacement, or sole avenue for PPC spend.
- Cheaper
- More Efficient
- Easy sync with Google Ads to find a new audience for PPC
- Quicker interface
- Easier addition of negative keywords
- Find scale where possible
Bing Ads - Small Volumes, Big Results
- Bing tends to have a higher conversion rate than Google, mainly because of the nature of the users on Bing tend to be a bit older
- Bing's universal event tracking, essentially a code that is placed on every page of your site, now allows you to utilise re-marketing lists to its fullest, as well as tracking and displaying your conversion points in the engine
- Bing tends to lag a bit behind Google in terms of rolling out new features
- Search volumes tend to be much smaller than Google's, around 1 /10th of Google's
- Pulling reports for a long time scale, segmented by day is not fully supported, you have to pull the data multiple times with shorter time periods
Search ads beyond Google's audience
- Keyword-based targeting
- Geographic targrting
- Conversion tracking
- Need to have offline sales uploads
- Auto-tagging of ads
- More traffic to PLAs
BingAds - the second engine to advertise on
- The strength is that it can be integrated with big data management platforms like DoubleClick and Marin Software.
- It's very easy to set up.
- It's cheaper than AdWords.
- Since they changed their policy for competitors to bid on other brand terms, brand CPCs became significantly higher, which impacts negatively overall performance and ROI.
- Shopping campaigns are not easy to set up, there are always issues. I personally never made it to see them working on any client have been managing.
- Lack of support on the side of Bing, in most cases they can't find a solution to any problem.
Bing Ads is Good, But Still Can't Compete with Google Adwords
- Ease of use. Bing Adcenter is very easy to use. It is not as complicated as Google Adwords is for new users.
- Cheap. I should say cheap-er. Due to Bing not being as popular of search engine, compared to Google Adwords the cost is normally 25-50% less per click.
- Effective. While you won't get as many clicks or impressions as Adwords, we find that the conversion rate is higher and cost of sale is lower for our ads.
- Newer features. Bing doesn't seem to come out with new features as soon as Google Adwords. They are always one step behind.
- Better support. The Google Adwords team is always contacting us to help improve our campaigns. I never hear from Bing Ads support.
- Bigger audience. While not specifically the fault of Bing Ads, Bing needs to increase market share. That is the only way they will compete with Google.
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- Higher ROAS than AdWords - the older audience demographic usually purchases more
- Better CTRs - The lower traffic volume contributes to higher CTRs
- Uploading Campaigns - prone to errors
- Being a leader - Bing is currently seen as an engine that copies Google
- Global targeting for search and partner network - cannot target specific countries with the partner network for additional traffic
- Suited for higher ROAS
- Suited to help expand as a second option
- Not suited as a leader
Bing Ads vs AdWords - Do they play nice with each other?
- On average we see a lower cost per conversion vs AdWords.
- They offer an easy-to-use tool to import already proven campaigns from AdWords to Bing Ads.
- The ability to integrate data directly into Excel is convenient.
- The import tool from AdWords allows for errors within campaign settings.
- Users should be advised to carefully review settings before going live as some campaigns may be optimized for clicks when they were optimized for conversions in AdWords.
- Calculated cost per conversion does not have the same visibility as AdWords and requires more careful analysis.
- Significantly lower volume of traffic can be expected compared to similar campaigns in AdWords.
Bing Ads Review
- Reach - Bing in the UK accounts for 23% of the market
- In some cases, cheaper CPC nad lower CPA with a better ROAS
- How they have made the set up straightforward by mirroring your AdWords account
- Look at areas Google is not covering, Bing has always been 5 years behind AdWords its time to be different
- Bing Analytics - but don't copy Google Analytics, look at areas they are not doing and capitalise on this
- Audience target - As the future is all about targeted ads what is Bing doing on this front?
Quality traffic, but not really scalable
- Quality Traffic
- Cost-Effective Marketing Channel
- Behind the times in comparison to Google AdWords, particularly in ad extensions, additional targeting criteria, conversion tracking, and support.
- Downtime of API is more constant than other platforms and takes longer to be resolved than Google and others.
- Analytics pales in comparison to AdWords and Google Analytics.
Bada Bing! The review
- Easy to reach, always answer the phone
- Provides the service consistently
- Decent conversion rate for clients, better than other shopping engines
- Needs to have better trained staff members in their own products
- Needs easier Interface, process for adding data feeds and seeing errors is clunky
- Bing needs a shopping interface instead of just SERP placement
Bing Ads Review
- It is easy to create and set up an account
- It is easy to see clicks, impressions and cost
- Offers a good amount of extensions
- The dot pixel makes it difficult to track actual conversions for accounts with multiple accounts under the MCC
- Not much action from the app extension feature
- You have to pull a report for a lot of things that you would like to see
BingAds Review
- Unique inventory
- Lower CPCs but likely due to less competition than AdWords
- Reporting
- Desktop Editor is very slow
- Disappointing that updates to the interface follow Google instead of innovating on their own
- Search remarketing please
BingAds is better, but still can catchup!
- Native ads pilot
- Conversion tracking broke for a week
- Reporting can be easier - would love the Dimensions tab to function like AdWords
- Bing Ads Editor has been better, but can still improve
A cantankerous review of an opinionated user
- Simplicity
- Reporting
- Excellent ROI on some campaigns (usually in languages other than English)
- No picture ads
Bing Product Ads - Its heating up! Give it a go!
- Organized Platform - easy to set up campaigns and manage performance
- Segmented Data - opportunity to view data through multiple dimensions such as hour of day, day of week, product level, etc. Allows users to know exactly how their products are perfroming.
- Bing frequently has errors on reporting. For example - column headers were reflecting the wrong information (i.e. conversions header was showing in cost per conversion header, clicks were showing above cost, etc.)
- Bing customer support isn't as in depth. Questions are not always answered in a timely manner and are often inconclusive. For example I had an issue with Bing conversion tracking and no one could provide me with a resolution.