Restricted content

As part of our commitment to provide the highest quality experience, we may restrict or modulate the serving of ads containing or relating to certain products or services. These products and services are listed below; Microsoft also reserves the right to reject or remove any ad in its sole discretion at any time.

• Adult Content
• Alcohol
• Beauty and Cosmetics
• Dating and companionship
• Finance
• Food Products
• Gambling and games
• Government Services and Products
• Legal Services
• Nudity and Suggestive Content
• Online Gaming
• Other Market Restricted Products and Services
• People Finder and Research Sites
• Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Ad Policy
• Pricing
• Psychics, Tarot Reading, and Mediums
• Public Service Announcements (psa) and Awareness Campaigns
• Religious Content
• Software Download Products and Services, Freeware, and Shareware
• Solicitation of Funds and Fund-Raising
• Surveillance Equipment
• Tattoos and Body Piercings
• Promotion of third-party products and services
• Ticket Reselling
• Tolled Numbers
• Travel

Note

If you are seeing the Assets disapproved, check to see if they are within our advertising policies. You can either fix the assets so that they Adhere to Policy Guidelines, or, if you believe that assets shouldn't have been disapproved, you can request an exception for the disapproved assets.

Additional resources

• Exception process
• History of changes to policies (change log)
• Publisher preferences
• Contact us
• Pilot programs policies
• CN pilot for policy