MICROSOFT ADVERTISING – Layoffs

Microsoft Advertising confirmed that it cut a number of key advertising and marketing positions, underscoring our previous reports that the company may be in large part backing away from the advertising business.

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As a digital marketing evangelist at Microsoft Advertising, Carson had a very public role at the company: His job was to forge relationships with the online advertising community at speaking events, digital ad conferences, trade shows, and writing thousands of post on Microsoft’s Advertising blog. He was moved from the U.K. to Seattle with his wife and baby daughter last year…

via MICROSOFT ADVERTISING LAYOFFS: A Look At The Damage – Business Insider.