Success Stories
Every day, more companies in every business sector are discovering the benefits of going mobile with Microsoft Tag to engage their target audiences, increase brand recognition, and drive sales. In addition, companies already using QR Codes are turning to Tag as a full-marketing solution for their QR Code needs and a way to learn more about incorporating Tag barcodes and NFC Technology into their mobile marketing campaigns. Here are just a few examples we've heard about in the news. For added information, see who’s already using Tag and check out their success stories.
Improve Your Golf Swing with Tag
By scanning Tags in The Art of the Swing with their smartphones, golfers get Stan Utley's exclusive videos – and can take them to the green more easily than a hardback.
Forbes Drives Subscriptions with Tag
You might run across a Tag the next time you get that "Time to renew your subscription" letter from Forbes. The company is using Tag in a direct mail campaign to drive subscription extensions.
Mobile Phone Photography Book Uses Tag
They're high art and they're shot with a phone. Lucas Kane used Tags in his photography book, pHone pHotos to make it easier for readers to learn about how the photos were taken.
Tag Helps Career Advice Book Stay Fresh
Mobile tagging helps authors serve up added content, like videos, and offers a way to help keep books from becoming outdated. You could almost call it a guerrilla strategy.
Self Magazine Offers Prize-a-Day
Free! Free! Free! Self Magazine proves the power of a good contest, having readers scan Microsoft Tags each day for a month to enter sweepstakes for 3,815 prizes.
People Offers Exclusive “Royal Watch” Videos
To ensure its mobile readers dodn't miss a single detail of the British royal wedding, People is running a special eight-week section that included a Microsoft Tag, so readers can watch exclusive video of the wedding preparations.
iPhone Book Adds Interactivity with Tag
When you're writing a book about something as visual as photography, it's pretty cool to be able to bring your story to life. That's why this book uses 75 Tags to provide more than 40 hours of video demos.
Tag Goes to Italy
Italian newsmagazine Panorama is connecting its physical and digital media with Tag, giving its 300,000 subscribers instant access to more content. Panorama moved from QR codes to take advantage of Tag's ease of use and fast web connectivity.
Business Book Adds Depth with Tag
To help companies learn how to retool for social media, readers can get rich content – videos, PDF files, podcasts, tips, discussions, and other resources – by scanning the 22 Microsoft Tags scattered throughout the book.
Newspaper Uses Tag to Show Rally Video
By making the printed page interactive, Tag can bring a whole new dimension to news reporting. This newspaper did just that by linking a story to a video of a political rally.
Tags Hook Bookworms
Dick Jordan saw a book ad for Prayers and Lies in The New Yorker, scanned the Tag, and got a mobile site offering author info, an audio excerpt, and 30% off. That sure shows how much one magazine ad can do!
Sports Illustrated Tags Swimsuit Issue
The 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue launched a mobile campaign that includes Microsoft Tags throughout the magazine (and beyond) that link to videos, mobile apps, and other interactive content.
Seattle Times Tags Its Daily Deals
The Seattle Times connects its print ads to online marketing, using Microsoft Tag to take readers directly to digital deals for everything from restaurant specials to discount tours.
USA Today Implements Microsoft Tag
USA Today has begun using Microsoft Tags in its print editions, featuring at least one Tag daily to give readers direct access to
videos, photo galleries, and other online content.