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Microsoft’s advertising audience now exceeds 1 billion. Also, Google’s cross-channel data-driven attribution model is now available. January 10, 2022 [Read in browser]( [logo] [sponsor]( Happy Monday! We are starting this year off right - with a giveaway. Want to join in on the fun? Well, we are raffling off a fully operational online business worth US$25,000, thanks to Flippa. To enter, you have to refer at least one person to our Stacked Marketer newsletter, as usual but there is one important restriction in place: you must be a resident of the US (except states of New York and Florida), or Canada (except Quebec), or the UK. [You can grab your referral link right here](, and you can read other details later in this newsletter. MICROSOFT ADS Microsoft now reaches 1 billion people through its ad network [article-image] Smaller ad networks aren’t as small as you think. [According to Microsoft internal data and Comscore](, Microsofts’ advertising audience exceeds one billion people. The company has reached the one billion milestone as of March 2021. Microsoft’s web properties spread across its search engine, Bing, as well as Outlook.com, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft News/MSN, and several other Microsoft properties and premium news publishers. Overlapping audience: A good percentage of those one billion people are “overlapping audiences,” which means your ad can be shown multiple times across multiple Microsoft properties. You could, for example, first show your ad on Bing and then on Windows. Why we care: Microsoft is not one of the "big two" (Facebook and Google) ad networks, and it's difficult to gauge how "small" they truly are. Stats like these give us a sense of scale in case we decide to dip our toes into Microsofts’ ecosystem. 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