Where do you want to go today?

Where do you want to go today?

"Where do you want to go today?" was the title of Microsoft's first global image advertising campaign. The broadcast, print and outdoor advertising campaign was launched in November 1994 through the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, the firm best known for its work on behalf of Nike, Inc.. The campaign, which "The New York Times" described as taking "a winsome, humanistic approach to demystifying technology", had Microsoft spending $100 million through July 1995, of which $25 million would be spent during the holiday shopping season ending in December 1994.Eliott, Stuart. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E6DA1F3EF932A25752C1A962958260 " THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Advertising; Microsoft takes a user-friendly approach to selling its image in a new global campaign"] , "The New York Times", November 11, 1994. Accessed September 23, 2008.]

Tony Kaye directed a series of television ads filmed in Hong Kong, Prague and New York City that showed a broad range of people using their PCs. The television ads were first broadcast in Australia on November 13, the following day in both the United States and Canada, with Britain, France and Germany seeing the spots in subsequent days. An eight-page print ad describe the personal computer as "an open opportunity for everybody" that "facilitate the flow of information so that good ideas -- wherever they come from -- can be shared", and was placed in mass-market magazines including "National Geographic", "Newsweek", "People", "Rolling Stone" and "Sports Illustrated".

In August 1995, the "Times" reported that the response to Microsoft's campaign in the advertising trade press had been "lukewarm", and quoted Brad Johnson of "Advertising Age" as stating that "Microsoft is on version 1.0 in advertising. Microsoft is not standing still. It will improve its advertising." Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, then the firm's executive vice president, acknowledged that the response to the campaign had been "chilly". [Staff. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DB1731F93BA2575BC0A963958260 "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Microsoft Throws Stones Into Its Windows 95 Ads"] , "The New York Times", August 18, 1995. Accessed September 23, 2008.]

In June 1999, Microsoft announced that it would be ending its nearly five-year-long relationship with Wieden+Kennedy, shifting $100 million in billings to McCann Erickson Worldwide Advertising in a split that was described by "The New York Times" as mutual. Dan Wieden, president and chief creative officer of the advertising agency, characterized the relationship with Microsoft as "intense" and that it had "run its course." [Elliott, Stuart. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E4D9173BF93BA25755C0A96F958260" THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING; After five years of high points and low, Microsoft drops Wieden & Kennedy for McCann-Erickson."] , "The New York Times", June 18, 1999. Accessed September 23, 2008.]

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