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Microsoft Expands “Promote Your App” Ad Campaigns to MSN, Outlook, and Skype

The company has announced the launch of universal campaigns that will deliver ads across Microsoft’s premium surfaces, as well as games the Microsoft solitaire collection.

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Previously, the “Promote Your App” ad campaigns were limited to other apps in the Windows Store. has now announced their expansion to other Microsoft services such as MSN, Outlook and .

The company says that it's using machine-learning algorithms for allocation of budget among the Microsoft surfaces which start with finding the right set of users who should be exposed to certain ad campaigns.

These algorithms then measure the effectiveness of each surface to adjust the target user profiles and budget allocations accordingly. According to Microsoft, these algorithms are working to give developers the best possible Return On Investment (ROI).

Microsoft promises developers that their ad campaigns will get a very wide variety of touch points. The company quoted a Harvard Business Review study to emphasize the fact that media-mix models can fetch multi-fold revenues, explaining that the app installs and the app engagements can grow multi-fold.

Users primarily use MSN in the context of news and entertainment, while Skype is used for personal communication and Outlook is used for email. Many Windows customers spend a fair amount of time playing popular games like Microsoft Solitaire. Microsoft says that ads will now capture the attention of users in all these different situations as well, and will improve recall and conversion rates.

How to get started

The Redmond giant has also informed developers that all campaigns that use auto-targeting will be universal campaigns by default. In order to use auto-targeting, developers should make sure Automatic is selected for the Audience section of their campaign settings in the Dev Center dashboard.

If someone wants to create a manually targeted campaign, they will have to choose Universal for the Surface setting in the Audience section of their campaign.

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Kostas is a former sports journalist and an amateur gamer. Combining his love for technology with his writing experience, he enjoys covering news about Microsoft. Being an artistic “soul”, he is also writing poems and short stories.

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