The New Bing on TV

Ad campaign trumps up Facebook connection

This week, Microsoft announced its partnership with Facebook in order to enhance Bing’s search results. Eager to begin promoting the new Bing, Microsoft was quick to roll out a new TV ad campaign, dreamed up by ad agency CP&B.

Bing’s "social integration" isn’t such an easy thing to convey in a TV spot. Microsoft’s chief creative officer Gayle Troberman said that the company looked "for the right killer idea," and found it with CP&B.

On its first assignment for Bing, the Colorado-based agency created a series of TV ads showing the search engine through the life of a user’s Facebook profile page.

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