Companies

Microsoft's digital advertising platform offering search, display, and native advertising solutions across Bing, MSN, and partner networks.

Microsoft's artificial intelligence division delivering AI-powered solutions including Azure AI services, Copilot assistants, and enterprise AI tools across Microsoft's product ecosystem.

Microsoft Advertising's native ad placement network. Reaches users across MSN, Outlook.com, Microsoft Edge, and a curated set of premium publisher properties. Sister product to the search-side of Microsoft Advertising.

Microsoft's content delivery network service that accelerates delivery of web content, media files, and applications globally through distributed edge servers.

Microsoft's cloud-based AI service that extracts information from images and videos using computer vision algorithms for content analysis, moderation, and visual search applications.

Microsoft's cloud-based facial recognition and analysis API service that provides AI-powered face detection, verification, and identification capabilities for developers.

Microsoft's cloud-based analytics service that integrates big data and data warehousing for enterprise-scale data processing and analytics.

Microsoft's comprehensive platform for building, deploying, and managing intelligent conversational AI bots across multiple channels.

Curation layer for ad supply within Microsoft Advertising — one of the three former Xandr products (Invest/Curate/Monetize). Sister product to Microsoft Monetize SSP. Distinct from Microsoft Curate for Commerce (the retail-media product). Active and being maintained per Microsoft's July 2025 statements.

Retail media product launched May 2024. Lets retailers monetize first-party data via offsite supply available in any DSP; Kohl's was launch partner. Microsoft's pivot from PromoteIQ (build) to curate-and-partner model (Criteo collaboration July 2024).

Microsoft's cloud-based suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications that includes marketing automation and customer insights capabilities.

Microsoft's customer data platform (CDP) that unifies customer data and provides AI-powered insights for personalized marketing and customer engagement.

Microsoft's unified analytics platform launched May 2023 GA. Consolidates Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, and Data Activator into a single SaaS data and analytics product. Lake-centric architecture using OneLake (Microsoft's unified data lake).

Microsoft Forms is a survey and form creation tool that enables users to create polls, quizzes, and surveys with real-time response collection and analysis.

Microsoft Invest was Microsoft's demand-side platform (DSP) for programmatic advertising, evolved from AppNexus and Xandr Invest, scheduled for sunset on February 28, 2026.

Microsoft Lists is a Microsoft 365 app for tracking information and organizing work, enabling teams to create customizable lists, share data, and collaborate on structured information.

Microsoft Monetize is a premium supply-side platform (SSP) and monetization solution for publishers, enabling them to maximize ad revenue across display, video, native, and connected TV inventory.

Microsoft's low-code/no-code platform suite for building business applications, automating workflows, analyzing data, and creating virtual agents.

Microsoft's global research division advancing fundamental and applied research across AI, machine learning, computer vision, and other technologies that power Microsoft's products and services.

MicroStrategy is an established enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence (BI), analytics, and mobile software platforms. The company provides comprehensive solutions that enable organizations to analyze vast amounts of internal and external data, transforming raw information into actionable insights for strategic decision-making. MicroStrategy's platform is designed to support large-scale enterprise deployments, offering robust data visualization, advanced analytics, ...

Midroll was a leading podcast advertising network and monetization platform that connected advertisers with top podcast creators before being acquired by E.W. Scripps.

Programmatic media and advanced data services company founded in 2012 in San Francisco. Acquired by S4 Capital in December 2018 in a $150M deal — the second pillar (alongside MediaMonks) of Sir Martin Sorrell's post-WPP roll-up. Folded into the unified Media.Monks brand in August 2021; Media.Monks subsequently rebranded to Monks in July 2024. Historical brand: search now resolves to Monks.

MightySignal was a mobile app intelligence platform that provided SDK detection and app store analytics before being acquired by Sensor Tower in 2019.

Millennial Media was a pioneering independent mobile advertising platform that became one of the largest mobile ad networks before being acquired by AOL in 2015.