Display Ad Targeting

How display ad targeting works – Microsoft Advertising

Display ad targeting is a proven means of boosting the effectiveness and efficiency of any online display advertising campaign. Available for all brand campaigns running on Microsoft media properties including MSN, Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger, display ad targeting ensures that campaigns maximise their frequency and exposure for the most relevant audiences at the most relevant time. New research from comScore proves the effectiveness of online targeting, with remessaging increasing site visits amongst those exposed by 726%, behavioural targeting by 358% and category targeting by 349%1. Return on Investment studies show that adding display ad targeting improves campaign ROI by at least 10%2, ensuring that the additional investment pays for itself.

 

Display ad targeting solutions are available for campaigns on all Microsoft owned and operated sites. Our display ad targeting campaigns use data from 171 million Windows Live users3 across Europe, and can reach an audience of 146 million through the Microsoft Media Network4.

 

Your choice of solutions for display ad targeting:

Profile targeting

Profile targeting allows you to target your audience based on key characteristics such as age, gender and location, time of day and type of browser or operating system.
Profile targeting: Group of teenagers

Behavioural targeting

Behavioural targeting delivers your advertising to users based on their recent online activity, allowing your campaign to reach relevant consumers across a number of different sites.
Behavioural targeting: Young people partying

Remessaging or re-targeting

Remessaging campaigns use cookies to target consumers based on their previous exposure and interaction with your campaign, extending reach to those not yet exposed, or driving conversions amongst those who have been.
Remessaging: Two people discuss what's on screen

Category targeting

Reach consumers engaged with particular categories of online content. Giant “virtual” channels across the Microsoft Media Network provide far greater scale than any single site could provide, across verticals such as Automotive, Financial Services and Entertainment.
Category targeting: Woman buying a car

Commercial email targeting

With commercial email targeting, you can target your display ad campaign at consumers who are receiving and reading emails relevant to your industry. Email targeting uses 160x600 skyscraper ads that appear alongside your own emails or those of your sector as a whole.
Girl using laptop

 

1Source: comScore, ‘When Money Moves to Digital Where Should It Go?’, 2010

2Source: ROI: Return on Investment or Return of Investment, Rex Briggs, 2009

3 Source: comScore Q3 2010

4Source: comScore Oct 2010

 

Please note Display ad targeting options are subject to availability.  Contact your local sales team for more information.