Email Marketing

There are 180 million email subscriptions worldwide, and 36 million of them are in the United States.1 Microsoft Email Solutions is a program of two distinct email marketing opportunities designed specifically for marketers who want to utilize email to acquire new customers and prospects.


Microsoft Offers lets you reach an engaged audience with an average click-through rate of 9.7 percent.2 You can maximize branding by using a single image or free-form HTML, and with delivery assurance, your email always gets delivered to an audience that has opted in to receive it.


With Microsoft Channel Newsletters, you access premium ad inventory. It is an above-the-fold branding opportunity that places your ad in contextually relevant newsletters that are distributed to registered subscribers. Your ads are delivered right to the inbox of users who have opted in to receive the newsletter.


You can optimize your strategy using digital reports on opt-outs, unsubscribes, click-throughs, opens and more. The program also provides you with tools that implement testing, targeting and analysis to help you execute successful campaigns that target users on Windows Live Hotmail.3

Microsoft Offers

  • Reach a 100% opt-in audience where people have registered to receive content based on their interests.
  • Access 180 million subscriptions worldwide, 36 million in the United States.1
  • Choose from a diverse selection of categories to deliver your message.
Microsoft Offers

Microsoft Channel Newsletters

  • Program offers access to premium ad inventory.
  • Apply standard IAB ad sizes within a variety of contextually relevant MSN channel newsletters.
  • Access popular newsletters that align with MSN properties including MSN Autos, MSN Entertainment, and MSN Money.
Microsoft Channel Newsletters
1 MS Internal Data, October 2008
2 MS Internal Data, February 2008
3 Windows Live Hotmail users register for Microsoft Offers and Channel Newsletters through the email account registration process or at any time in their email experience. This email marketing solution is 100 percent user opt-in.