adCenter versus AdWords

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The true test of any company, product or service is in their Christmas message right? (I’m joking).

So let’s consider how Microsoft adCenter and Google AdWords stack up against each other. I spend a fair bit of money with each, so it’s reasonable to expect something useful in the Inbox at Christmas time.

Microsoft AdCenter

First up, Microsoft adCenter. Here’s the message I received a few days ago:

Free Gift Inside!

Cool, perhaps there’s a voucher or discount coupon waiting for me. I click the button and am taken to this page:

Waiting, waiting...

After a good 20-30 seconds of loading, I finally experience this delight:

Finally

Lame. But it gets lamer. Shaking the globe (wow – it’s interactive! – all designed in Flash of course) unleashes this tosh:

Tosh

Followed by:

Yawn

The wankery continues with:

Wankery

And concludes with this masterful ‘Spread the Cheer’ call to action:

Spread the cheer my ass!

No voucher of course! No actual benefit. No actual gift. Instead a waste of my bandwidth and time. What’s really tragic is that some galah in marketing was paid to spend time and money getting this rubbish prepared.

Google AdWords

Moving on to Google now, and here’s the email I received (at the address I use with AdWords):

Google email

Clicking on  the link takes me here:

Google spreads the love

Yes, that’s right. It loads in a second and tells me they’re donating $20M to a range of charities.

Enough said.

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By Craig Bailey

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