Watch the ‘Scroogled’ ads this outgoing Microsoft exec created
June 17, 2015, 3:44 PM UTC
Mark Penn, executive vice president and chief strategy officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado, U.S., on Tuesday, July 1, 2014. The festival gathers some of the foremost thinkers in the world with civically-minded leaders in business, the arts, politics and philanthropy to share ideas and questions and drive thought to action. Photographer: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Photograph by Matthew Staver — Bloomberg via Getty Images
The man behind Microsoft’s infamous anti-Google “Scroogled” ads is leaving the company, it was announced Wednesday.
Scroogled.com, which served as the website for the multi-million dollar ad campaign that spanned over the last few years, became inactive earlier this year. But plenty of the spots, which Mark Penn had a hand in making, still live on YouTube.
Before joining Microsoft, Penn was an operative for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Here’s a look at some of the Scroogled ads created by Microsoft under Penn in the past:
An ad taking apart the Google Chromebook, starring the guys from Pawn Stars:
Another bashing the Google app store:
Here’s one on Outlook versus Gmail:
