Bing: What Does a “New” Search Engine Mean to Advertisers?

June 5, 2009

As of June 1st, Microsoft has successfully soft-launched Bing.com as the new and improved Live Search. The big question becomes: how should advertisers react, if at all, and ensure that they are in prime position to reap the benefits of all the hype, praise, and the hefty $80 – $100 Million in branding efforts from Microsoft?

As the graph below from alexa.com indicates, Bing has generated a lot of interest in the first day of production, and this trend should continue for the short term. Incremental page views translate to incremental clicks and potentially sales.

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Preliminary traffic trends for Bing.com

Preliminary traffic trends for Bing.com

Advertisers should anticipate increased exposure on Bing and increase budgets accordingly on AdCenter. more on Bing…