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Microsoft Gags on Puke Ad

Peter Kafka in Media on July 2, 2009 at 9:36 am PT

Microsoft’s first series of Web video ads for Internet Explorer 8 didn’t seem to garner much attention. But its latest one did: It features a married couple, an unspeakable porn site and a lot of vomit. Now Redmond says that was probably a mistake.

Can an Old Superman Sell Microsoft’s New Browser?

Peter Kafka in Media on June 11, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Microsoft is throwing a ton of money into an ad campaign for its Bing search engine, hoping to claw back some share from Google. But I don’t think it’s sinking quite as much into the new ads it’s running for its newish version of Internet Explorer.