By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. With the 2022 midterm elections a mere two weeks away, candidates and lobbyists are emptying their war chests on a number of forms of political advertising and are expected to spend $9.7 billion overall. Broadcast TV will be the chief beneficiary of those campaign dollars, garnering $4.98 billion […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. When it comes to targeting Generation Z, it’s those marketers who ply their trade in the tech and food and beverage industries who skip a little more happily, perhaps, down Easy Street. Tech and F&B companies dominated the Top 40 brands among Gen Zers — or those ages […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. If you’re ready to dump a social media platform, it would be easy to seek the grounds of “irreconcilable differences” to gain an outright divorce. Or so it seems in light of a new report that finds “digital trust” in social media is sinking to new lows of […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. If small business ad spending follows the trend of larger companies’ ad spend, as it is wont to do, expect some tightened pockets for advertisers and marketers alike in 2023. Granted, ad spend by businesses both large and small will rise globally in 2023, according to recent reporting […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Everybody’s awaiting the upcoming Labor Day weekend, of course, but somewhere near the top of the anxiety list has to be the 150 million active users of Airbnb. After all, it was a year ago on Labor Day, or Sept. 4, 2021, when the homestay and vacation rental […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. One of five advertisers are reducing their marketing budgets this year because of rising inflation rates and supply chain issues, according to a recent study from Advertising Perceptions. What can you as a small business marketer do under such conditions? Just sitting out the next couple of quarters […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Concerns about inflation may have some businesses tightening their advertising budgets, but there’s one rich source from which media companies and marketers will gain bundles of ad spending over the next few months. That source would be the political arena — namely, the 2022 midterm elections. The National […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. It’s Prime Day eve, and e-commerce experts are watching closely to see how Amazon’s premier event performs as it returns to a more traditional, mid-July date. Scheduled during such months as October and June in recent years, mostly because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Amazon Prime Day […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Building trust in your brand is among the many top goals of any marketer, but when you learn what brand is the “most trusted” in America right now, you might skeptically think that this is some sort of cover-up. That’s because the most trusted brand in America is […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. The American Marketing Association (AMA) calls it “the million-dollar question”: What are the best times for social marketing managers to post to their social media platforms? The answer is one of the “depends on” variety — as in depends on which platform to which you’re posting, such as […]