Protect Your Microsoft Ads Account - Don't Run These

[joeybabbs]

Alert: Updated Microsoft Audience Network policy​

We are always evaluating our policies as we work to create greater uniformity in the ads that are displayed across our publishers while taking into account publisher preferences.

Advertising for the following products and services will no longer be allowed on the Microsoft Audience Network, as well as on native advertising served by our partners on Microsoft owned and operated properties such as MSN and Outlook:

• Lawsuit advertising/invitations to participate in a lawsuit
• End-of-life products and services, including but not limited to cremation services, funeral flowers, urns, coffins, and obituaries
• Health supplements and vitamins
  • Enforcement for supplement and vitamin ads that are currently running on the network will not begin until January. Please note that ads escalated through complaints that are found to violate other policies will be taken down prior to January.
• Gambling
  • This has been disallowed on the Microsoft Audience Network and will now be disallowed on native advertising served on Microsoft owned and operated properties by our partners as well.

 

[RogerP]

Re health supplements, would that include weight loss?

 

[joeybabbs]

Re health supplements, would that include weight loss?

If it comes in a bottle then yes.

 

[mieloux]

No mention of beauty products? (cream, serum...)

 

[joeybabbs]

Here is the official page https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-...d-microsoft-audience-network-editorial-policy

More details there.

 

[abdulla]

I never knew health supplements would not be allowed in January on Microsoft ads. That means you can't promote most click bank products. Thanks for sharing this.

 

[joeybabbs]

It appears it is only for the Audience Network but before running them I would definitely ask support if you can still run it on search.

 

[abdulla]

Thank God.

 

[RogerP]

Thanks Joey. As I have not used the Microsoft/Bing platform for advertising yet, would you mind explaining the difference between advertising with either Audience Network and/or Search

 

[joeybabbs]

Yes audience network is similar to running native ads. Your ads would appear on MSN.com for example, among other places including their network of publishers.

Search ads only appear on Bing.com/yahoo etc. and show when people search kws related to kws you choose to target. You can also choose to include search partners which means your ads show on other search engines
as well.

 

[RogerP]

Gotcha - Thanks