By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Drivers, beware: Watch for quick back-ups and U-turns at a fast-food restaurant near you. Those other drivers may have just been alerted to a nearby, penny-burger deal at a competitor’s restaurant, such as one that Burger King recently offered to drivers it found cruising near McDonald’s restaurants. BK […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. We know what drove our first three industrial revolutions. First, there was James Watt’s patent for a steam locomotive in 1784, followed by Thomas Edison’s work on electrical light bulbs in the 1870s, and then, in 1969, the launch of the first large-scale computer networking link (ARPANET), eventually […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Though its number of users should remain relatively stable over the next few years, Twitter is expected to generate $1.62 billion in ad revenues by the end of 2020, which will be a 22.8 percent increase over 2018’s revenues of $1.3 billion. What’s driving the surging revenues? Both […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. “Programmatic” has become an emblematic description of today’s business-to-business marketing space. Business data and analytics experts Dun & Bradstreet reported last week that 63 percent of B2B marketers that they polled worldwide already are buying or selling ads programmatically — and 41 percent of those marketers expect to […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. A $57 million fine that the French data protection authority levied on Google last week is the largest yet under the European Union’s newer privacy law, and it could well bolster efforts to enact similar legislation in the United States. California already has passed a data privacy protection […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Big brands as well as start-ups are finding that blending a brick-and-mortar presence with online commerce is just the experience that internet-savvy shoppers crave. A case in point for this “bricks and clicks” sort of marketing strategy is one newer start-up whose business in the United States has […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Though the advent of the internet still causes many to predict doom for the world of print, marketers in recent years have proven such a prophecy to be what we might call, well, “fake news.” Rather, marketers have found that print marketing with its variety of tools — […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Thinking your parents or grandparents are too old to want a smartwatch for the holidays? You might want to give such an idea some more serious mulling: They may love you even more and let everyone know that watch was their favorite gift for Christmas. In 2019, some […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. We’ve already identified several top digital-marketing trends for 2019 in this space, but what are other observers foreseeing in their post-holiday crystal balls? As Santa’s checking his lists and loading up his sleigh with nearly a 20-percent rise in online holiday sales from a year ago, prognosticators are […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Small business marketers are keen to local events and trends that can help shape ad campaigns for their customers in various retail sectors. But it’s also important that marketers know what national events and trends might influence their customers’ marketing strategies throughout the year. Right now, for example, […]