When Microsoft and ad agency JWT launched a campaign back in 2009 to brand Microsoft’s Bing as a “decision engine” rather than a “search engine,” Microsoft was hoping to reposition the search category.
This weekend, during the the NFC Championship, and again during the X Games coverage on ESPN, Microsoft will take its Bing advertising campaign to the next phase.
“Bing has traditionally highlighted the decisions people make and now, with this new campaign, Bing will illustrate how decisions enable people to go beyond searching to doing,” according to a January 20 post on the Bing Community blog.
The message is Bing is more about helping people decide; it’s also key to enabling them to do things.
“Bing is for doing” is the new tagline of the ad campaign created by Publicis Groupe’s Razorfish.
Here’s one of the ad spots that will be highlighted:
Bing surpassed Yahoo in terms of U.S. search marketshare last month, according to comScore. But Google still holds 65.9 percent share, compared to MicroHoo’s combined 29.6 percent.
