By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Jump in your car to run a few errands and you see them everywhere: By “them,” we’re talking about loyalty and rewards programs that seemingly every kind of business is unveiling lately. Also, take your bank’s credit card with cash-back rewards with you perhaps — you may need […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Women’s college basketball is giving men a better run for the money not only in popularity on the basketball court, but also in generating revenues for the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Disney announced last week that it had sold out of ad inventory for the Final Four and […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Here’s a newer marketing buzzword we recently learned and like: “Tradigital Marketing.” It means blending the digital marketing practices of today with more traditional forms of the marketing business as part of your overall strategy. The coiner of the term, if we may call him so, is David […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. A new year, new artificial intelligence tools for shoppers: That seems to be the theme for early 2024 as big retailers continue to roll out new AI-based products. Walmart chose the bright lights of Las Vegas — specifically the Consumer Electronics Show in early January — as the […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Sports fans may still be scratching their heads over this announcement last week: ESPN, Fox and Warner Brothers Discovery will launch a joint, sports-heavy streaming service later this year that will include each company’s content from sports that also appear on linear or traditional TV. For fans who […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. More of the Clydesdales, a bright-blue drink, M&Ms and a mustachioed man: These are among the ingredients that the food and beverage industry are mixing for TV ad watchers when Super Bowl LVIII kicks off Feb. 11 in Las Vegas. CBS, which is airing the game between the […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Connected TV, an increasingly popular programmatic ad buy in 2023, may well continue its meteoric rise in 2024 — thanks to Amazon Prime Video’s plans to slash its CTV ad rates soon. Amazon plans to launch Prime Video with ads at the end of January with CPMs (the […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. To write a 2024 trends-in-marketing report, one only needs to turn to a trend that exploded onto the scene in early 2023: The rise of generative AI, which included businesses and marketers embracing a newer, certain tool known as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Uses of GenAI in marketing are now […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Advertisers are exploring a number of ways to prepare for Google’s cookie deprecation deadline sometime later in 2024, including such ideas as working with partners that have first-party data and capitalizing on newer generative AI tools. Whatever strategy advertisers choose for the day that third-party cookies finally crumble […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Black Friday, Shop Local Saturday and Cyber Monday, move over: Travel Tuesday is becoming an equal among the key players in Cyber Week madness. For holiday shoppers, this week’s Travel Tuesday was a timely opportunity to book 2024 trips and find great savings on flights, hotels and cruises, […]