Most families appreciate having the extra distribution of their obituary on Facebook, especially as it alleviates the need to find and inform long lost friends, colleagues, and others from various stages of a loved ones life. For adult children, many of these friendships occurred before they were even born. However, families are also price sensitive, and having to make [...]
Westborough, VA, August 2, 2021 – The first French-English DIY ad portal created by iPublish Media Solutions in partnership with Sud Ouest Publicité, a group of five French newspapers, has launched with a unique marketing campaign. The custom DIY platform, white-labeled as Sopenads, allows businesses to design, buy and target multi-media ad packages online without a sales rep. “We [...]
What happens when newspaper leaders join with technology leaders to ensure technology solutions meet their business requirements? Partnerships Make the Platform: Software + Strategy = Success Since iPublish Media's inception, we have listened to our partners and have consistently improved AdPortal to meet our customers’ needs. We accomplished this by creating an agile culture and flat organization which exists [...]
What happens when newspaper leaders join with technology leaders to ensure technology solutions meet their business requirements? Partnerships Make the Platform: Software + Strategy = Success Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT Save Your Spot > Join us for this free webinar featuring: Edward Woods, Vice-President and Chief Revenue Officer, MediaNews Group Sally Steed, [...]
In 2016, the Bay Area News Group saw real estate revenue plummet with national digital players gobbling up the revenue, so they took action! In partnership with iPublish Media Solutions, they built LeadHax, a “digital first” real estate brand with one key advantage over the national digital players—local knowledge and nuanced audience targeting expertise. The results? Booked appointments increased, [...]
Newscycle/Naviga recently recommended that their newspaper clients offer an advertising self-service portal and listed eight reasons why this gives newspapers an advantage. In addition to the convenience for advertisers and labor savings for newspapers, they also highlighted increasing evidence that customers today expect to be able to buy and pay online for their advertising for a variety of reasons. [...]
Try the revenue calculator to see! Tributes—a special obituary section reverse-published and sorted from recently printed obituaries—is now available to all media companies who publish obituaries; whether they use iPublish Media's AdPortal Obituaries, Legacy.com, or even their own CMS. This means that any newspaper of record for death notices in the country could be earning more money with a [...]
Two key recommendations for local media stood out at the 2019 Borrell & Associates Local Online Advertising Conference (LOAC): 1. Automate the buying process 2. Bundle different ad types in the sale Automate Advertising Buys The most persuasive advocate of automating the advertising buy was Philip Rather, head of local at Facebook. “By 2020, 85% of customer interactions will be [...]
A couple of weeks have gone by since the 2019 Mega-Conference, giving us time to digest the key messages for this year from a jam-packed three days of listening to speakers and customers. This year, iPublish Media Solutions was pleased to see the new focus on how technology powers online sales, not just outside sales teams. With so many [...]
Obituaries play a vital role at newspapers and in the communities we serve. This is one area where technology can improve on the previous ways of gathering information for obituaries. Today’s custom obituary software that takes self-serve entries, automates pagination and provides other options is both a cost-saver and revenue producer for newspapers; but more importantly, the right software [...]
