Share your stories. Reach new audiences. Build strong communities.
For 25 years, Microsoft has been finding new ways to connect people with the information that matters to them. Today, more than 4,500 news and entertainment brands around the world trust us to help them reach a bigger audience & tell their stories.Together, we operate the world’s largest cross-platform service covering news, entertainment and lifestyle. Our personalized content feed is used by millions of active users each day through Windows, Bing, Edge, and Microsoft Start. Our audience around the world is growing, and they want to see your stories.
We aim to connect people to their neighborhoods and the world around them by offering high-quality content. You choose to reach readers in their town, region, state and across the country.
We deliver your content through the power of AI curation, user choice and personalization.
Microsoft Start licenses content from publishers for our feed, maintaining high editorial standards, but still ensuring that partners retain 100% ownership of their work.
You control what you share with one of the biggest brands in technology. We feature your content alongside some of the most important brands in news, entertainment & lifestyle.
A global network of advertising partners and established payments ecosystem all means Microsoft offers readers more ways to support publishers like you.
Ad revenue
Earn from high-quality ad placements with your content
Reader support
Receive reader gratuities in currency submitted via either Microsoft Rewards points or cash
Participation is limited right now while this program is in beta, but provide a little information and we'll send you an update when we're ready for you.
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