By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. When Hurricane Helene blew its way through middle and eastern Georgia in the early-morning hours of Sept. 27, its wrath included leaving 1.5 million customers of Georgia Power without electricity, many of them for 10 days or more. How did Georgia Power communicate with its customer base during […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. We often talk in this space about advertisers and marketers as if they’re one and the same industry. True, they do work together to get a brand’s messages disseminated to the public. But, take note: An advertiser and a marketer each brings certain responsibilities to a conference-room table […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. On Labor Day eve, Americans’ minds may be transfixed on pool gatherings, sizzling burgers and a few days off work as the dog days of summer finally draw to a close. But come next week, the thoughts of many advertisers and marketers, as well as millions of anticipatory […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Americans now spend almost two-thirds (63.7%) of their total time spent on media specifically on digital media, which continues to take a bigger share of time that’s spent on traditional media, according to a report released this week by the experts at eMarketer. Total time spent on media, […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Another Amazon Prime Day meant another record spend on the much-anticipated, mid-July event: Consumers in the United States spent $14.2 billion over the sale’s two days this year, up from the $12.7 billion they spent online a year ago. Often foreseen as a harbinger of how well holiday […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Whether your ad-buying strategy for the Paris Olympics is of the connected-TV variety, the traditional or linear TV route or a blend of both, via programmatic ad buys, the latest viewership projections for the July 26-Aug. 11 games are, well, magnifique. The games are expected to surpass 3 […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. On a recent episode of “Master Chef: Generations,” chef Aarón Sánchez described Generation Z as an age “born with phones in your hands.” Indeed, members of Gen Z — generally defined as those born between 1997 and 2012 — were born in the earlier stages of the internet […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Connected TV continues to attract not only cord cutters — it also has become a hot ad buy for smaller advertisers with lower budgets and smaller geographic needs. Those smaller advertisers are finding that CTV can offer them the same benefits, such as more precise targeting, that larger […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Ready, set … vote? Not only is summer heating up, but so are advertising decisions on this eve of both the 2024 Olympics in Paris and the 2024 election cycle in the United States, where national, state and local elections already have been attracting ad dollars, but war […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. This summer’s Paris Olympics and US election seasons could just sprout a fast-food advertising war as restaurants try to lure back price-weary customers. It was reported earlier this week that McDonald’s is mulling a $5 meal option to add to its menu, not only as a lure to […]