By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Netflix continues to get battered on the news front, with a popular survey of American teens’ spending habits revealing last week that the streaming service has been uprooted by YouTube as teens’ most-used platform for watching videos. The Taking Stock With Teens poll, which is conducted twice a […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Does your marketing campaign need a kick in the number of responses you get from prospective customers? You may want to consider making direct mail a key force in that campaign — studies show that “snail mail” gets a better response rate than other marketing efforts, thanks in […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. With just a few months looming until advertisers are expected to comply with California’s new data privacy act, only about 8 percent of businesses are prepared for it, according to a recent survey by consent solutions provider PossibleNow. Other polling suggests that only about half of businesses say […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. In this app- and social-media-minded age in which we live today, it’s easy to think of email as something that’s a bit passé. But email refuses to be outdated. Recent data from Statista and Smart Insights, respectively, show that 85 percent of internet users in the United States […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Tired of seeing Sheryl’s “she shed” succumb to lightning or watching Liberty Mutual Insurance’s “LiMu” emu pecking at its reflection in a downtown window? You may well be a Gen Xer, an American generation that still watches about 3.5 hours of non-digital TV daily but becomes weary of […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Whether you’re building a website for a new business or wanting to take your site to a new level, one of the more important decisions you’ll make is which content management system to use. A content management system (CMS) is a software program that allows your business to […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Choosing the right keywords that people use when they search online for a new product or service long has been crucial for any business that’s starting a content-management campaign. Whether you’re a start-up trying to market yourself on your own or with a small staff, or you’ve decided […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. You don’t follow Ariana Grande on Instagram, but suddenly her image is serenading you on the social-media platform. What’s up with that? It’s Instagram’s attempt to seize upon the social-influencer market with a new revenue strategy — “branded content” ads, from which advertisers can promote branded content from […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Total time spent on all media is stagnating in the United States, with rises in digital-media use offsetting declines in such traditional media sources as TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, eMarketer says in a new report. In the report, eMarketer forecasts that the time U.S. adults spend on […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Many of us pay little attention to cybersecurity — until our own computers are hacked. When a smaller ad agency presented to McAfee, the cybersecurity giant that protects millions of computers globally, an idea for a podcast that would compel McAfee consumers to get more interested in hacking […]