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Microsoft Corp. today unveiled the Microsoft® adCenter Incubation Lab (adLab) during its adCenter Demo Fest, an exposition of industry-leading research and innovation in the field of digital advertising technology from Microsoft researchers.
adLab, a joint effort between MSN’s adCenter and Microsoft Research, is a state-of-the-art lab in Beijing with a mission to research and incubate advanced technologies for MSN’s adCenter, designed to provide advertisers with rich targeting capabilities based on audience intelligence information and give consumers a more relevant online experience.
adLab’s top-notch group of more than 50 researchers will develop advertising solutions that connect marketers with consumers in more relevant, innovative ways unseen in the industry before now. Today at the adCenter Demo Fest on the Microsoft campus, the researchers gathered to present prototypes of more than 15 of the approximately 40 advertising technologies they are currently working on for long-term implementation, including online advertising solutions, video opportunities, and television and mobile-based advertising products.
The AP provides a history of adCenter and some more adLab background.
Update: Don Dodge provides a useful roundup on Internet advertising in general and Microsoft’s efforts in particular.
January 17th, 2006 at 4:53 PM
[...] In the hoopla surrounding the announcement of Microsoft’s adLab in Beijing, Microsoft officials drew a lot of press by confirming what had been been pretty much common knowledge ([1], [2]) about the roll out of adCenter: Microsoft Corp. plans to launch its system for selling advertising alongside regular search results by June in the United States, giving the company its next piece of ammunition in the battle with rivals including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. [...]