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Microsoft Advertising Activate event set for 19 May
Microsoft has scheduled Microsoft Advertising Activate for 19 May 2026: sitting between Google I/O and Google Marketing Live in the May product-announcement crunch. Hana Kobzová has surfaced the event in her weekly digest.
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Microsoft Advertising Activate is positioned as the showcase event for Microsoft's advertising product roadmap, following the Spring Summit announcements covered in Week 17.
For paid-media practitioners running on Microsoft, Activate is the discrete signal moment between the April Spring Summit launches and whatever's coming through summer 2026. Worth blocking time alongside the I/O and GML coverage, particularly for advertisers where Microsoft is a meaningful share of total search spend.
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Microsoft Advertising Activate event set for 19 May
Microsoft has scheduled Microsoft Advertising Activate for 19 May 2026: sitting between Google I/O and Google Marketing Live in the May product-announcement crunch. Hana Kobzová has surfaced the event in her weekly digest. Microsoft Advertising Activate is positioned as the showcase event for Microsoft's advertising product roadmap, following the Spring Summit announcements covered in Week 17.
For paid-media practitioners running on Microsoft, Activate is the discrete signal moment between the April Spring Summit launches and whatever's coming through summer 2026. Worth blocking time alongside the I/O and GML coverage, particularly for advertisers where Microsoft is a meaningful share of total search spend.
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