By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. What’s on chief marketing officers’ minds as we navigate our way through early 2025? Foremost thoughts include changing corporate’s perception of the marketing department’s role, as well as dealing with more data-driven opportunities, according to the recently released CMO Council’s Marketing Vitality Index. “Instead of being seen as […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Here’s a Presidents Day fun fact for you: The Lincoln Bedroom in the White House is named after Abraham Lincoln, who used the room as his office and signed many important documents there, including the Emancipation Proclamation. Despite its name, he never actually slept there; the room was […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Trends stories abound at the start of a new year, and for the marketing and advertising industries, what’s happening in the world of artificial intelligence is still trending as we turn our calendar pages from 2024 to 2025. Also continuing to trend from recent years into 2025, though, […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Generative AI continues to gain much attention from chief marketing officers, who say in recent polling that content creation, social media engagement, ad copywriting and insight generation will be among their top budget priorities in the months ahead. In a study this summer by the Boston Consulting Group […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. We often talk in this space about advertisers and marketers as if they’re one and the same industry. True, they do work together to get a brand’s messages disseminated to the public. But, take note: An advertiser and a marketer each brings certain responsibilities to a conference-room table […]
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. 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. Having proven his chops at acting since the 1990s, “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds also has been starring in recent years as a savvy marketer and businessman — as displayed in this week’s acquisition of Mint Mobile by T-Mobile. Reynolds is a quarter owner of Mint Mobile, for which […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Programmatic ad buys are looking even more popular now for advertisers, thanks to fourth-quarter earnings news last week from programmatic-ad kingpin The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk reported that its fourth-quarter revenues for 2022 rose 24% year over year to $491 million, and that its yearly revenues rose […]