Microsoft launched mobile phone ads
Christmas time is a great moment to gather with your family, spread the love and also spend loads of money. And that’s where advertisements come into the play. Microsoft Corp. began on Monday to place advertisements on its U.S. MSN Mobile page, moving into the nascent mobile phone advertising business. Computer-based Web usage dwarfs mobile Internet use in the United States, but companies like Microsoft, Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. see advertising tied to mobile phones as potentially more lucrative than the $40 billion online advertising market.
The company will start with advertisements from Bank of America, Paramount Pictures and Jaguar. Microsoft already sells mobile phone advertisements in Belgium, France, Spain, Japan and the United Kingdom. Microsoft’s idea is to offer customers the option to place advertising across a wide range of platforms from the Internet to mobile phones to its Xbox Live online video game service. Microsoft also plans to bring new features such as astrology and movie ticket buying to its MSN Mobile page. You can’t hide from the advertisements anywhere in these days…
Source: Reuters
Comments(6)
i’m hiding from all the ads just fine with noscript and adblock plus
Me too with admuncher!
what was the point of posting this story?
Damnit even more spam…
Boo more advertisements, good thing that we have NoScript and Adblock to block them though.
The article also mentioned advertisements in Xbox Live, that would really be stupid, as the person is actually paying an annual fee to use Xbox Live.
bloody microsoft making more money, and yea… keep the adverts off the game consoles… especially if there paying for the (crappy) service