51 questions with Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements tags

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Microsoft Advertising - Microsoft Audience Network (Rampant Click Fraud)

I have recently created several Search campaigns, seeking to take advantage of the Linkedin Profile Targeting option for better performance over what we have seen using Google Ads, only to find our Campaign budgets immediately consumed (in less than 30…

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asked 2025-07-30T20:50:06.7266667+00:00
Nick Krueger 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-08-12T13:26:31.3133333+00:00
Nick Krueger 0 Reputation points
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No campaign delivers

I recently started running ads via my Microsoft Ads account again. The campaigns went very well at first - the daily budget was quickly increased to over € 3,000. Previously, the account had been inactive for a long period of time. Since June 29,…

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2025-07-14T13:26:51.9033333+00:00
Lutz 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-07-15T07:36:35.93+00:00
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The search ad I created on Bing has been open for 5 days, why is it not showing yet?

After checking my search campaign, I found that the audience is correct, the keyword quality score is high, and the bid is also high. These problems have been basically eliminated. What other problems may exist that cause it not to be displayed?

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2024-05-13T08:52:07+00:00
Anonymous
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the creation date of my microsoft account

help me plsss

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2023-05-02T00:45:31+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

I cannot find the “Bing, AOL, and Yahoo apply tosearch...” in Ad distribution

In the "AD DISTRIBUTION" options i could just find "The entire Microsoft Advertising Network (recommended)." but the “Bing, AOL, and Yahoo apply tosearch...”

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2023-08-14T07:00:48+00:00
Anonymous
7 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

DuckDuckGo Ads w/o the junk websites

Is it possible to setup Ad Distribution to show my search ads on DuckDuckGo.com but NOT the other Microsoft Ad Network Partners? I'm getting decent results from Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and even MSN. I am getting no conversions from the garbage websites.…

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2023-07-18T15:31:39+00:00
Anonymous
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Set lower bid on Yahoo or otherwise reduce exposure?

We are a B2B vendor running a Microsoft Ads campaign. While our Bing prospects are decent, thus far all conversions coming from search.yahoo.com are either bots or jobseekers. I realize there's no way to prevent our ads from appearing on Yahoo because…

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2022-10-24T16:25:11+00:00
Anonymous
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Our experience with Microsoft Ads (fraud)

In August 2023, we contacted Microsoft Ads support to opt out from the audience network for it was enormously wasting our budget. However, they persuaded us to not switch it off, and stated that if we switch off a few specific websites they named, the…

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2024-03-08T17:05:26+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How do I opt search ads completely out of the audience network ads?

The search help center has outdated instructions. There used to be an option to decrease bids at the ad group level but this is no longer visible in the Microsoft ads interface. We tried to update them at the ad group level in the editor and posted…

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2022-11-02T20:46:19+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How can we Exclude IP Ranges in MS Ads like we do in Google Ads?

In Google Ads, multiple variation of IP ranges (IPv6, IPv4, Wild Card) can be excluded. Is there a way to do so in Bing / MS Ads? Just noticed that they accept only specific IP or one with WildCard. Apparently MS Ads don't have the same targeting option…

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asked 2024-02-07T12:08:50+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Create an Audience with CustomerList using CSV Upload. Can someone help with sample Python code

Create an Audience with Customer List using CSV Upload. Can someone help with sample Python code

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2024-04-03T16:27:45+00:00
Anonymous
asked 2025-05-28T07:22:03+00:00
Anonymous
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Disable Audience Ads Network on my Smart Shopping Ads

Hi, My Smart Shopping Ads budget is getting drained without ant conversion all because of the Audience Ads Network. I would like to get it disabled at the earliest please. Even increasing tROAS% doesn't seem to help with spend decrease. I am really…

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2023-01-06T13:28:42+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Je ne peux pas accéder à mon compte institutionnel

"***Personal information deleted by the moderator.***" Je ne peux pas accéder à mon compte institutionnel

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asked 2025-04-08T21:47:59+00:00
Anonymous
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LookaLike Audience on Bing

Hey everyone, does anyone know if you can create a LookaLike audience in Bing? I would like to upload a customer list (mail list) of qualified leads and create a target group on it that is similar to the mail list (like google ads similar to mail list…

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asked 2025-01-09T14:24:48+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to Turn Off Audience Ads?

Hi everyone! Thanks in advance for your help. We are receiving traffic from audience ads - https://www.screencast.com/t/KP6AQYZ3UH - which we don't want. We have the Audience Ads bids adjustment the campaign level set to decrease by 100% and this is the…

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asked 2022-05-16T22:35:34+00:00
Anonymous
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Internal server error when uploading Customer List or Customer List Item.

I am currently uploading the csv with the contents below Type,Status,Id,Parent Id,Client Id,Modified Time,Name,Description,Scope,Audience,Action Type Format Version,,,,,,6.0,,,,,, Customer…

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2025-03-06T15:31:56+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Code: 4842 Details: None ErrorCode: InvalidAudienceMembershipDuration,When MembershipDuration = -1 is set to add audience for No Expiration. Please share the exact value for No expiration

When MembershipDuration = -1 is set to add audience for No Expiration, the AddAudiences call fails with below error AddAudiences: AudienceIds: PartialErrors: * * * Begin output_batcherror * * * Code: 4842 Details: None ErrorCode:…

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asked 2024-04-03T22:02:31+00:00
Anonymous
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industry targeting showing less clicks

hi all, I was wondering if there is something wrong with my account or just the way it works. I am targeting a specific industry but my campaign total clicks is over 167 but it is only showing 8 clicks to the industry. The only reason I am doing the ads…

Microsoft Advertising | Ad delivery | Audience placements
asked 2023-02-21T15:01:41+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Uploading a customer list in the Ad Editor - how do I get the Profile ID?

I found out how to do a bulk upload of company targets on campaigns through this locked thread - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msadvs/forum/all/how-can-i-upload-a-company-list-to-a-campaign/83fb4087-a88b-4f5d-9df6-60a5e9bb44e9 However, I don't know…

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asked 2025-01-02T21:12:46+00:00
Anonymous