By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. China as the origin country got the jump on battling the coronavirus, but this past November, two months before the new virus was detected there, it also got a boost on the rest of the world by rolling out 5G technology to much of its citizenry. In a […]
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. Netflix continues to get battered on the news front, with a popular survey of American teens’ spending habits revealing last week that the streaming service has been uprooted by YouTube as teens’ most-used platform for watching videos. The Taking Stock With Teens poll, which is conducted twice a […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Newspapers and magazines, infamously known these days as “legacy publishers,” just can’t seem to catch a financial break during the digital age. They’ve tried paywalls as a way to get readers to subscribe to both digital as well as their print content; they, like others, face ad blocking […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. We know what drove our first three industrial revolutions. First, there was James Watt’s patent for a steam locomotive in 1784, followed by Thomas Edison’s work on electrical light bulbs in the 1870s, and then, in 1969, the launch of the first large-scale computer networking link (ARPANET), eventually […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. A $57 million fine that the French data protection authority levied on Google last week is the largest yet under the European Union’s newer privacy law, and it could well bolster efforts to enact similar legislation in the United States. California already has passed a data privacy protection […]
by Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Need a key word for marketing trends in 2019 and beyond? Try “voice,” as the rise in smart speakers and continuing use of smartphones mean more voice searches overall and another advertising platform for brands to investigate in the years ahead. For marketers, a chief chore will be […]
by Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Imagine life without those bulky cable or satellite TV boxes and their yards of endless cable taking up a corner of your living room. By 2022, six of 10 of the country’s households — representing about 204 million people — will have done just that, electing to watch […]
by Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. A commercial for a Texas bank has earned Advertising Systems Inc., and South Coast Film & Video, both of Houston, a 39th annual Telly Award. Advertising Systems and South Coast were awarded recognition in the Local TV/General-Bank category at the Telly Awards’ annual ceremony last month in New […]
by Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Net neutrality protections that barred internet service providers from blocking or slowing access to content officially died last week when the FCC’s decision this past December to repeal the rules went into effect. It doesn’t appear that net neutrality will go away as an issue anytime soon, though: […]