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E-commerce Keeps Clicking in Mobile’s Direction

By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. When Motorola introduced the first cellular phone in 1983, the DynaTAC 8000X, the product would affectionately become known more as “The Brick” because it was about the same size as that piece of hardened clay and hit the scales at nearly 2 pounds. It also cost nearly $4,000 […]

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Average Facebook User Getting Younger, Study Says

By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Facebook to younger social-media users may often be viewed as the Baby Boomer app, but the average age of its users is actually getting younger, thanks to the entering-their-prime-years members of Generation Z, a recent study says. Generation Z, or people who were born between 1997 and 2012, […]

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CEOs Must Face This in 2022: Digital ‘Future’ Already Here

By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. A major challenge for chief executives during the pandemic has been the ability to adapt to change quickly and embrace the reality that a digital “future” already is here. Recent research from Vistage, an organization that serves 21.000-plus member CEOs, is issuing this challenge for the C-suite in […]

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Food Holidays: A Social Media Marketing Bonanza

By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Social media marketers who cater to the food-and-beverage industry seem to just wanna have fun — thanks to the plethora of national food holidays that are commemorated almost daily across the F&B landscape. Picture these marketers or yourself working at the computer on Dec. 30, for instance, when […]

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Report: Digital-Ad Sales to Keep Soaring Onward

By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Marketers looking for key sales strategies for 2022 need not check their lists, nor do they need to check those lists twice. They should just look down the hot trail that represents booming digital-advertising sales, which will grow by nearly 50% over the next four years, topping $300 […]

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Marketers Gear Up for Small Business Saturday

By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. With the 12th annual Small Business Saturday looming Nov. 27, its co-sponsors — the U. S. Small Business Administration and American Express — are hoping to build on 2020’s successful campaign, which produced an estimated $19.8 billion in spending, despite the challenges of a pandemic. Last year’s economic […]

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More Brands Warming to Native Advertising Trend

By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. One marketing trend gaining popularity in recent years — and expected to keep growing — is the native advertising sector, which some experts are predicting will increase by 21% this year for a total spend of $57 billion in the United States. What is this native advertising, and […]

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Mobile Still Reigns Among Digital-Ad Buys

By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. “Content is king” is a seemingly worn-out mantra but one that still holds true for those marketers trying to drive business to their company, via content marketing. But as far as digital-advertising dollars go, “mobile advertising is still king,” proclaims a recent report from the experts at eMarketer. […]

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