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    AdSense

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AGoogle AdSense provides a way for publishers to earn money from their online content. AdSense works by matching ads to your site based on your content and visitors. The ads are created and paid for by advertisers who want to promote their products. Since these advertisers pay different prices for different ads, the amount you earn will vary. AdSense displays relevant ads to your site visitors next to your content and allows you to customize the look and feel of ads to match your site.N/A

    Microsoft Advertising

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) contains Microsoft's advertising solutions. Advertising formats include search (Microsoft Search ads), Display and Native ads, Retail Media, and Video and Connected TV (CTV) ads. Services include Performance Max, the company's conversion optimization AI assistant and guide.N/A
    Pricing
    AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose AdSense
    Google Adsense has a better User Interface and reports are much better.
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    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Advertising
    Microsoft is the best if you want to target the USA business; it has a great standing against these other platforms.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    68%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    70%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    65%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    59%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Google AdSense and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Google AdSense
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    3.9
    3 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings7.23 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings8.13 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings1.93 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings3.73 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings4.53 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Google AdSense and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Google AdSense
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    5.3
    5 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings4.75 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings4.74 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings6.33 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings5.43 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings5.43 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Google AdSense and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Google AdSense
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.6
    4 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings6.64 Ratings
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    AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
    Small Businesses
    Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
    Score7.7 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
    Score7.7 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    5.9
    (67 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AdSenseMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    If you own a small website with a general audience, [Google] AdSense is for you. If you have a larger website, and/or very niche subject matter on your site, finding individual partners to sell ads to generally can result in higher earnings. Adsense will pay you based upon impressions and clicks, typically individual partners will only pay for clicks in my experience.
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    Microsoft
    Despite using our account for advertising with every other social media company, Microsoft flagged ours as fraudulent. After dealing with them for weeks, we finally got to a manager, who said that they didn’t know anything, couldn’t provide any information, and was unable to do anything about it. It seems odd, but it would flagger account every time we try to upload the campaigns from Google directly into their ad manager. I would suggest if you try and use their platform, don’t tell them you’re using Google cause they seem to have a thing against it. Once your account is flagged, they have no reasonable way of resolving it, nor they are able to offer any support. You’re better off to just try a different way. Ultimately, just don’t use Microsoft advertising if you can possibly avoid it. Hopefully soon DuckDuckGo will have their own advertising platform and we can eliminate Microsoft given the terrible time we have working with this one of many, social media platforms.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Excellent Ads type and useful content
    • Excellent follow up and analytics
    • Secure your particular ads by following the plagiarism bloggers who steal your content. It happens to me and Google AdSense aware about these thief's by tracking my Google Adsense particular ad code
    • Excellent revenue for the bloggers who are honest about their content
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    Microsoft
    • Familiar interface, offers editor for bulk changes, adding negative keywords is much easier than in Google Ads
    • Nice reporting tools within the interface, detailed reports can be made fairly easily
    • Had very nice tools to help import/export ads directly from Google Ads, which saves a ton of time
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    Cons
    Google
    • Google AdSense should monetize mobile applications
    • Google AdSense should monetize Mac native applications and games
    • Google AdSense should pay out more for a click for tier 1 countries traffic
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • Bing's ad platform could definitely use some improvements - it hasn't been updated in a long time, and it feels very outdated.
    • We feel that the optimization algorithms don't always perform as well for Bing Ads as they do in Google Ads (optimize for conversions, etc.).
    • It would be great to have even more integrations with LinkedIn audience targeting offered - right now, you can just make some bid optimizations in a couple of areas; we'd really like to get more robust options there, and maybe even things like cross-platform tracking.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    We have had good success with it over all of our clients. We continually recommend bing to reach "the rest of the searchers".
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    It's very easy to use overall. It has an import from Google Ads to make things simpler. Overall, I would say you can get up and running very quickly. It's similar to other platforms, so if you have used them, it's intuitive.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Our Bing Ads reps are very good and attentive. They've offered good recommendations and are quick to resolve unexpected issues and problems. Occasionally they have roped in technical support folks that have been friendly and helpful too. The general helpline for Bing Ads is also very good, especially when compared to Google's customer support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    As part of the Google ecosystem as well as being the world's foremost browser, a company has to start with AdSense as a foundational element in any web presence monetization strategy. Other competitor offerings should be considered niche nice to have features suitable for specific use cases.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Obviously Google is a huge competitor. Typically Google is top of the game for many advertising solutions including search. Microsoft ads has a lower scale and reach compared to Google. However, Microsoft ads audience does not overlap much with Googles, providing incremental reach. Although Microsoft ads lags a bit behind in adapting the new updates that Google comes out with, their customer service is very good and they are likely to go out of their way to adapt their platform to your needs whereas their competitor does not
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Helps us strategize better around potential ad revenue models
    • Helps us evaluate the impact of ads on the user experience on the front end
    • The optimization recommendations have generated an improvement revenue-wise
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • We've had a very hard time spending our budgets on Bing which has caused us a lot of extra work on our end. We've essentially had to move that money back to Google or other platforms.
    • It does have an easy import from Google so you're not doubling efforts.
    • The CPCs tend to be less expensive than Google - which is always good for business owners.
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