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Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom Sign Internet Ad Deal

Apr 20, 1998

Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG said it
signed a deal with Microsoft to put
advertising on the home page of its T-
Online
Internet service.


Telekom said in a statement that Microsoft would insert an ad button on T-
Online’s home page, bringing in revenues of over 10 million marks ($5.5
million) for the one-year duration of the deal, according to Reuters.


“Our cooperation will open a new dimension on the German-speaking Internet.
Until now, there has only been Internet advertising on this scale in the
USA,” said Telekom’s chief of global systems business Herbert May.

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