March 20 2007

MSN Cars has a new home!

After six happy years in Soho, central London, MSN UK has moved offices, and so has the team running MSN Cars.  The new location is Microsoft’s stunning new building on Victoria Street, London SW1.  Please update your mailing lists and address books accordingly.

The new mail address for MSN Cars is:

MSN Cars

Microsoft Ltd
100 Victoria Street
London

SW1E 5JL

 

Main telephone: 0870 601 0100

As ever, MSN Cars publishes articles and other content from a variety of sources.  The website currently has an in-house team of three led by Tom Evans, content manager, together with content editors Henry Biggs and Ian Dickson.  As well as publishing the site and generating articles and galleries the in-house team also performs road tests and group tests.

Our primary external supplier is Motoring Research Ltd, whose writers Kyle Fortune, Richard Aucock, Peter Burgess and Christopher Hubbard attend most launches for us, produce road tests and other features, and provide us with video road tests and a variety of other content.

MSN Cars also has a number of freelance contributors.

MSN Cars remains one of the UK’s most popular motoring websites.  According to data from independent ratings agency ComScore for December 2006, MSN Cars received 836,000 unique users, generating 11 million page-views.

New contact details:

Tom Evans - content manager

e-mail:                        tomev@microsoft.com

Telephone:                0203 139 6716

Henry Biggs - content editor

e-mail:                        v-hebigg@microsoft.com

Telephone:                0203 139 6718

Ian Dickson - content editor

e-mail:                        v-iandi@microsoft.com

Telephone:                0203 139 6717

Motoring Research

e-mail:                        kyle@motoringresearch.com

Telephone:                01582 761625

Press releases for MSN Cars should go to ukcars@microsoft.com

MSN Cars remains at: http://cars.uk.msn.com – for passionate, expert and unbiased information and advice to get you motoring.

About MSN UK and Windows Live:

MSN and Windows Live are a business division of Microsoft Corporation. 

MSN UK (http://uk.msn.com) attracts more than 21 million unique users worldwide per month. MSN is a world leader in delivering compelling programmed content experiences to consumers and online advertising opportunities to businesses worldwide.

Windows Live, a new set of personal Internet services and software, is designed to bring together in one place all the relationships, information and interests people care about most, with enhanced safety and security features across their PC, devices and the Web.

Windows Live and MSN provide a number of world class innovative communication and information services including: 

§  MSN Hotmail, the UK's most popular free web-based e-mail service with over 11.3 million users in the UK (Nielsen//NetRatings November 2006) and over 230 million active accounts worldwide (MSN Internal Data)

§  Windows Live Messenger, the UK's number one instant messaging service on the internet with 14.8 million monthly users (Nielsen//NetRatings November 2006) and over 205 million active users worldwide (MSN Internal data)

§  Live Search, one of the UK’s top search sites with 5 million users. (Nielsen//NetRatings November 2006).  Live Search is available in 33 markets worldwide and 13 languages.

§  Windows Live Spaces, one of the leading blogging and social networking sites in the UK, has over 2.7 million users in the UK (Nielsen//NetRatings November 2006). Windows Live Spaces is one of the fastest growing communication networks in the world.