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Microsoft Advertising
Formerly Bing Ads

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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.…

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March 08, 2022
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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.

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The most common users of Microsoft Advertising are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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January 13, 2022

Bing Ads

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Bing Ads across the whole organization. It helps us drive in leads with low cost per clicks and high conversion rates, helps us with our branding campaigns to get our name out there for users to see.
  • 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.
Bing ads is very useful if you are trying to sell items or trying to get leads. It is less appropriate if your main goal is to get phone calls.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bing Ads/Microsoft Advertising to advertise for our product across their search engine. We primarily use Google Ads and this is our secondary advertising platform. Back when we started, we were able to import our Google Ads campaign directly to Bing, that was a really great option that saved us a lot of time. Since then we have been running ad campaigns across both those platforms parallelly. Generally speaking, Microsoft Advertising is considerably more cost-effective than other options and we feel we get more bang for our buck with whatever amount we spend on ads here.
  • 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.
If you are working with a strict budget, I feel you can get really good value for money from Microsoft advertising. Even if you spend most of your ad budget on Google Ads, I would still recommend setting Microsoft ads up. Why? For one, it is really easy to do since you can import your Google Ads campaign. And secondly, you can get more coverage for a smaller amount in spending.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Advertising as our marketing campaign application, which goes beyond boundaries to share our brand information and reputation with clients all over. Further, Microsoft Advertising helps us in authoring, and publishing authentic and creative marketing content, which when posted, gets audiences interested in doing business with us. Furthermore, Microsoft Advertising supports ads; one of the easiest, [most] efficient, and [most] successful tactics in marketing.
  • 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.
For ads management, and social media monitoring, Microsoft Advertising is an excellent application. Furthermore, for organic traffic management and follow up, Microsoft Advertising has shown great progression. The search engine advertising feature is also deployed into Microsoft Advertising, making our brand ranked higher in Google. Finally, the tool supports communication in a universal scope, hence, it plays a global role.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization buys ads for multiple brands. We utilize Microsoft Advertising on my account (Auto) to buy mainly search ads. Ensuring we are capturing the full demand for the brand that comes in through search as this is a lower-funnel conversion tactic. We also utilize some of their display units through the MSAN network.
  • 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 Advertising is a top tier search engine, they help to capture the full demand for a company in addition to its competitor Google. The overlap between these audiences is not very large and so having a presence on both platforms opens up reach and scale. An area where it is not as appropriate is top-line awareness and prospecting.
May 06, 2021

Microsoft advocate

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Advertising [(formerly Bing Ads)] to serve supplemental paid search advertising traffic depending on business needs. Generally speaking, if a budget is small, we would advise depleting Google Ads paid search ads traffic first.
  • Paid search advertising
  • Support
  • Reporting
  • Traffic volume
  • Unique product offerings
  • Smart shopping
Microsoft [Advertising (formerly Bing Ads)] is really great for those looking for business to business type leads or business to customer type leads. The product generally performs better for higher Key performance indicators or multi touch conversions such as lead to call to sale etc. e-commerce plays don't do as well in the [Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads)] landscape
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bing Ads is the 2nd most popular search engine that we sell ads on in the paid search area. It provides a slightly different audience and searches are a little bit better in some cases than with Google. We use it primarily for promoting our clients as a complete solution.
  • Lower CPC (not always but usually).
  • Better CTR (again not always but normally).
  • Reach, especially in display.
Bing works very well when targeting people that have a college degree. It works well in higher education, "green technologies" and automotive.
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.
Austin Voigt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a digital advertising agency, and our entire paid media team uses Bing Ads (Microsoft Ads, now) for at least one client, but often many clients. We try to prioritize Google Ads due to its much larger audience sizes; however, Bing provides additional inventory outside of Google - and usually at a much more affordable price. Bing also has some features we really love and can't get in Google Ads, like image ad extensions, and LinkedIn targeting capabilities.
  • 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.
Bing is fantastic to pick up additional inventory outside of Google Ads. It's also much more cost-effective. Its audience demographics tend to skew slightly older, slightly more blue-collar, and slightly more traditional/conservative. This is great if your target audiences match this demographic, or use Microsoft products that align with Bing usage. Bing is also great for B2B audiences with its LinkedIn audience targeting integrations.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Bing Ads as paid media acquisition channels for our clients. It's mainly used only by our paid media team. Bing Ads specifically helps our clients capture intent from users that use Bing Ads as their search engine. We use this to sell products and services for a variety of businesses.
  • 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.
Bing Ads is a solid paid media channel if your target audience is older individuals. Also, if you have maxed out a lot of other paid media channels or if you have highly successful Google Ads campaigns than it would be ideal to import into Bing Ads and test as a potential acquisition channel.
Joseph Lesho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bing Ads is being used for search ads for both our clients and our own marketing. Because the demographics of Bing users differs from that of Google Ads, the platform allows us to expand our audience reach.
  • 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
Bing Ads is a great way to supplement Google Ads if your client has the budget for it. Smaller budget clients should probably just stick to Google, as that will typically be the most lucrative platform, but good return can also be had on Bing.
Brittany Goodman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bing Ads as a complementary SEM Solution alongside Google Ads. We run ongoing text ads and put a moderate budget towards it. Bing Ads is currently only being used by the marketing department in our company but helps us reach the few customers who do not rely on Google when searching for relevant terms.
  • 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...).
[Well suited for] when you want to fill in the gaps in your Google Search traffic. Bing is typically the second biggest search platform and has loyal users who should always be considered when creating a marketing campaign. I would not use Bing as my sole SEM marketing strategy though, as bypassing Google in favor of Bing would be foolish.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bing Ads provides a real efficient spend of PPC dollars, usually coming in cheaper with better results than Google Ads. The reason for a not perfect score in the "Would you recommend to friends" then, comes from two factors that keep it from being a complete peer to Google Ads: Scale and ease.

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 is well suited as a supplement to Google Ads. With an excellent synchronization feature, it works great when you use it in addition to Google Ads, as opposed to your sole avenue to PPC or a replacement for the behemoth of Google. It's also great if you don't have scale. With a small budget, Bing might be preferred, as you have no need to scale up, but just need the most efficient spend you can get.
Ade Fowler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bing Ads is being used as a way to complement our ads on Google and mainly used to reach a wider audience when we have saturated the Google market. Bing Ads also helps reach those who are not on Google and overall, drives a higher conversion rate in spite of its lower search volumes.
  • 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
As I have mentioned before, Bing Ads is very good when you have saturated the Google market. In my case, we have done just that and used Bing to expand our reach without compromising our targeting. This worked out very well, as we have driven a few more conversions with a small amount of extra spend. There is also less competition through Bing, so your CPCs tend to be cheaper.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bing Ads to target in-market customers who are searching for products and services we offer. We convert them to leads and sales to grow our customer base.
  • Keyword-based targeting
  • Geographic targrting
  • Conversion tracking
  • Need to have offline sales uploads
  • Auto-tagging of ads
  • More traffic to PLAs
Helpful if you are targeting a specific identifiable market. Not good for branding or if you don’t have good tracking.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's being used in the marketing team as part of the paid search strategy for driving more traffic to client's websites. It's the cheaper version of AdWords so to say, unfortunately, the reach is very limited as not so many users search on Bing. It has almost all features offered by AdWords, although falling behind track a bit.
  • 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.
I'd recommend it, because if gives the opportunity for some additional volume of visitors to the site and in most cases at a lower price. It's the best solution to expand a paid search activity beyond Google search. For shopping campaigns though it's hardly developed. In countries where people are more likely to search on Bing it brings even more benefits. In the UK though, its market share is not big enough.
Jeff Moriarty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bing Ads is only used by the marketing department. While we take into consideration ideas from the entire company, the marketing department has the final word on what we advertise on, the messaging we use, the maximum cost per click we are willing to spend and the overall budget of the campaigns.
  • 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.
Bing Ads seems to do well with e-commerce buyers over B2B. I have worked with different clients and e-commerce always does better than my B2B clients. Another reason to try Bing Ads is if you are on a tight budget. Due to the lower market share, there will be less competition within Bing Ads, which means cost per clicks will be lower.
September 27, 2017

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Juba Bektache | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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It was used across the whole organization. I worked at a Digital Marketing agency - the client was Google. I uploaded campaigns, QA'ed, forecasted, and optimized campaigns based on performance.
  • Importing from Google AdWords - Google AdWords is the primary source of traffic
  • 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
Adam Lumley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bing Ads in the same manner that we use AdWords. It is used primarily for lead generation for our sales team.
  • 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 is definitely worth testing and scaling up if you find success with the platform. Traffic volume is lower than AdWords for nearly identical campaigns, bids, etc. Conversion to sale as a result of having less lead volume has often taken longer compared to AdWords. Organizations with smaller monthly budgets may find more success testing with less spend in Bing Ads vs AdWords.
June 06, 2017

Bing Ads Review

Nathan O'Connor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bing Ads in our SEM department to expand our client reach. As the market share grows in Bing the more we will push adverting through the search engine.
  • 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?
Bing accounts for 23% of the market share in the UK. To maximize reach and increase sales through a direct marketing platform you'd be silly not to explore this.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bing Ads is used as a supplemental source of paid search marketing traffic to complement Google AdWords paid search campaigns. In many cases we find Bing Ads traffic to be slightly more qualified and affluent than Google traffic, but the volume of traffic is significantly less and thus not very 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.
Bing Ads is appropriate in situations of maximum brand protection and visibility for branded searches. It is also appropriate when Google paid search traffic is fully maximized in capturing all available opportunities. Lastly, Bing can provide a platform for cost-effective, quality traffic and leads when compared to similar traffic on Google.
October 20, 2015

Bada Bing! The review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bing Ads for about 50% of our marketing clients that sell in an eCommerce capacity. Most of our employees are Bing Ads certified or use Bing Ads on a daily basis. We have a Bing MCC with about 15 active clients in it currently.
  • 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 Shopping in particular is a good option compared to other market places, especially Connexity or Shopping.com. Bing Shopping is a good second option for Google Shopping, so are Bing text ads. It provides good visibility for a significantly less cost, so if you're looking to expand your channel marketing - Bing is a good option with a history of decent conversion rates.
September 11, 2015

Bing Ads Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We run all of our accounts through Bing Ads. It performs totally different than Google so it is definitely necessary to have both engines.
  • 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
I think it would be good for any advertiser looking to gain good, cheap traffic.
September 11, 2015

BingAds Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BingAds for our SEM campaigns on both our consumer and professional focused digital marketing teams to drive leads.
  • 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
If you are on a budget, or looking for cheaper CPA/CPCs, go to Bing. AdWords has way more reach though. AdWords is easier for less experienced users as also for small/medium businesses.
Esther Hwang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're using Bing Ads for lower funnel marketing and using it as a closer. It's used only within the marketing department. It allows potential customers to find us quickly and easily in Bing search.
  • 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
Bing is a widely used search engine so we definitely run our campaigns here.
Danil Rudoy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
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We do PPC, and Bing is a part of it, albeit not a large one (about 1/7 of AdWords currently).
  • Simplicity
  • Reporting
  • Excellent ROI on some campaigns (usually in languages other than English)
  • No picture ads
How old is your target audience? It is not very useful for catering to younger people and is surprisingly effective when it comes to 45+ age group.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
I manage Bing Product Ads for a variety of clients. It helps get clients product listing ads visible on the Bing network and provide quick links to products relevant to Bing user searches.
  • 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.
Bing Product Ads are definitely worth a shot. While it doesn't match up to Google AdWords just yet - the exposure is definitely worth a try.
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