Bing Ads Becomes Latest Platform to Ban Cryptocurrency Advertising

[kreslik.news]

Bing Ads, Microsoft’s advertising service, has decided to disallow cryptocurrency advertising.

According to Melissa Alsoszatai-Petheo, Advertiser Policy Manager, the decision has been reached because cryptocurrency is not regulated and so the related products “present a possible elevated risk to our users with the potential for bad actors to participate in predatory behaviors, or otherwise scam consumers.”

The change will be effective in late June/early July.

Bing Ads is a Microsoft service that provides paid advertising on the Microsoft and Yahoo! internet search engines. It was formerly known as adCenter and was renamed in 2012 following Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo! The Yahoo! search engine ... (read more)