Microsoft Advertising policies
Microsoft Advertising policies
Learn about Microsoft Advertising policies for all countries/regions, including policies for ads, style, disallowed content, privacy, and more.
The key to success in online advertising is creating ads that are relevant, clear, and accurate. To help you do just that, we have a detailed policies website laying out what makes a great ad and what is and isn’t allowed in an ad.
Every ad and keyword submitted to Microsoft Advertising goes through an editorial review against these policies, so familiarizing yourself with them before you submit can make your approval process much quicker. Think of them as the playbook that'll lead you to victory!
Microsoft Advertising policies cover the following areas:
Ad content and style
Visit the Ad style policies page for details on:
- General ad text policies
- Capitalization
- Grammar and punctuation
- Phone numbers
- Spelling
- Symbols, special characters, and abbreviations
- Word count and character limits
Visit the Ad content policies page for details on:
- Duplicate ads
- Use of foreign language
Visit the URLs and landing page policies page for details on:
- URL types
- Destination and landing page URL
- Display URL
- URL mismatch
- Acceptable URL mismatch
- URL characters
- Landing page
- Site behavior and navigation
Adult content
Visit the Adult content policies page for details on:
- Definition
- Disallowed adult content
- Adult advertising participation
- Adult keywords and advertising
- Adding adult keywords to your campaign
- Adult advertising policies
Product Ads and media format
Visit the Image, audio, and video policies page for details on:
- Image ad functionalities
- Nudity, offensive advertising
- Image quality
- Audio
- Video
- Intellectual property rights
- Endorsements and testimonials
- Online tracking technologies
Visit the Ad Extensions policies page for details on:
- App extensions
- Sitelink extensions
- Location extensions
- Phone numbers and ad call extensions
- Image extensions
- Review extensions
- Callout extensions
Visit the Product Ads policies page for details on:
- Advertising policies
- Product description and conditions
- Pricing
- Savings and rebate claims
- Subscription offers
- Images
- Restricted and disallowed categories
- Adult advertisers
- Security at checkout
- Performance exclusions
- Online tracking technologies
- Use of product feed data
Visit the Remarketing in paid search policies page for details on:
- Privacy policy
- Behavioral targeting opt-out
- Sensitive categories
- Microsoft Advertising disallowed products and services
- Underage users
- Web properties directed to children
- Tracking tag misuse
- Precise geo-location on mobile devices
- Association of additional personal data
- Third-party data providers
Relevance and quality
Visit the Relevance and quality policies page for details on:
- How does this policy affect your ad delivery?
- Keyword relevancy
- Ad copy (title, text, and display URL)
- Marketplace exclusion
- Landing page and site user experience
- Landing page and site content quality
Restricted and disallowed content
Visit the Disallowed content policies page for details on:
- Areas of questionable legality
- Dating
- Defamatory, slanderous, libelous, or threatening content
- Hate speech
- Online gaming
- Peer-to-peer file sharing
- Political and religious content
- Sensitive advertising
- Suffering and violence
- Unregulated user-generated content
- Usenet
Visit the Disallowed products and services policies page for details on:
- Alcohol
- Responsible drinking messaging
- Deceptive products and services
- Drugs and related paraphernalia
- Endangered/threatened species products or services
- Fireworks and explosives
- Infant feeding
- Tobacco and electronic cigarettes
- Weapons, knives, firearms, and ammunition
Important
Many policies vary by the country/region in which the ad is displayed. These variations are called out by country/region name under each affected policy.
For some tips on helping your ads and keywords pass the editorial review, check out our policy training.
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