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Small Businesses to Grapple With Tight Ad Spend in ’23

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 […]

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Social Influencers: A Key Boost for Big-Brand Airbnb

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 […]

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Economy, Abortion Debate Boost Midterm Ad Spending

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 […]

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Prime Day Perhaps Not So Lackluster, After All

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 […]

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Building Trust a Key Driver for These Top Brands

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 […]

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The Best Times to Post to Social Media

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 […]

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Adults Working From Home Seek More Fun on ‘Other’ Devices

By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Adults working from home with laptop and desktop computers during the pandemic have become rebellious, ‘80s rocker-girl types: Much like singer Cyndi Lauper, they just wanna have fun and turn away from those work-related screens. A report released last week found that US adults continue to spend more […]

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