By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. After a weekend that saw millions of Americans hoarding food and other supplies and hunkering down in their homes because of the new coronavirus, it’s time for marketers to think about a few positives that may arise from this ongoing crisis. Here are five such positives that come […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Perhaps you saw Facebook debut its first Super Bowl commercial earlier this month. Titled “Facebook Groups: Ready to Rock?” and set to Twisted Sister’s “I Wanna Rock,” it ends with comedian Chris Rock and actor Sylvester Stallone, decked like Rocky Balboa, celebrating at the top of the steps […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Billionaires running for president will help boost digital political ad spending past $1 billion for the first time in U.S. elections — and then some — with spending on digital political ads expected to reach a $1.34-billion total in the 2019-20 election cycle, eMarketer reported last week. That […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Is yours a small business that buttresses its brick-and-mortar presence with search marketing, through which you target ads to potential customers who have simply glanced at your website while pondering a purchase? And perhaps, through those targeting and retargeting efforts, you’ve caused those customers to traverse even farther […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. When it was launched in 2003, LinkedIn mainly served as a professional networking service where businesses could post jobs and potential employees could post their curriculum vitae for any potential employers to see. Owned by Microsoft since 2016, LinkedIn has grown exponentially, now boasting its own business model […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. With the 2020 primary-election season but a month away and $6-billion plus expected to be spent on political advertising for the campaign, ad targeting will be a crucial factor in determining how candidates, political parties and others in the U.S. divvy all of those funds. When it comes […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Better internet connectivity via 5G, a presidential-election year, a gathering of summer Olympians in Tokyo and protecting data privacy: Expect all of these subjects to reap much chatter around the water cooler in the ad and marketing worlds in 2020. Here are status reports on each subject, and […]
By Jay Bemis / Advertising Systems Inc. As a marketer, you already know how vital the creative services team is to your brand. After all, it’s the team that draws eyes to your content and product, having designed snappy looking logos, letterheads, business cards and marketing materials for print since your brand was born. And, […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. A shortened, Black Friday-to-Christmas shopping season already has spawned big TV deals and the accompanying advertising — two to three weeks ahead of Thanksgiving. WalMart, for example, started advertising last week a 50-inch Class 4K Roku Smart TV for $148, a price tag that will be available on […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. In the world of social media strategy development, knowing your target audience long has been a chief marketing chore. And across the generations, which may be the toughest audience to attract on social media, in terms of generations? That — perhaps not surprisingly — would be the oldest […]