Microsoft ContentAds Takes on Google Adsense
Microsoft has started giving invites to select publishers for its contextual advertising platform called Microsoft ContentAds. The main competition for this program comes from Google Adsense, Yahoo! Publisher Network and other small players.
Content Ads is Microsoft’s next product that allows advertisers to place content-targeted, text-based advertisements primarily on Microsoft-owned properties including MSN Money, Real Estate, and many others within the www.msn.com portal.
Microsoft says that ContentAds will place advertisements using not just keywords but also demographic targeting, geo-targeting and incremental bidding tools. Sounds like AdSense plus some consideration of the demographics of various MSN sites’ readership.
I can see revenue cut for publishers in future as number players in contextual advertising platform are increasing.
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It appears a good news for publisher. But I have not find any link related to this news. Please share if you have any link about this news.
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Ok, I have got the link of jensene blog and techcrunch after seeing carefully.
Where is the link BTW? I couldn’t find it. Also, do you know if it is still in private beta? Do you know of any publishers who has ContentAds on their sites?