Writing an obituary during a time of grief is one of the most challenging writing tasks many people will face. How does one sum up a life in a few paragraphs? Where does one even begin? Often it is the first time a loved one has even tried to write an obituary. ObitWriter® alleviates some of this stress by [...]
Outlook News Group Sees 0 to 60% Adoption of AdPortal Public Notices in First Month February 25, 2025 – When Outlook News Group automated public notices in December, they knew it would make public notices easier for customers to post and their call center to service. What they didn’t anticipate is how quickly customers would adopt the new online ordering [...]
New partnership features expanded capabilities now available to all publishers. February 7, 2025 – Legacy.com and iPublish Media are thrilled to announce they are now powering classified advertising call center services for all McClatchy Media Company properties. Sales, support, and advertising desk services for McClatchy’s public notices, obituaries and general classifieds will be managed by a team of 40 [...]
As we look ahead to 2025, we want to share the top 3 best practices we’ve observed across our most successful markets. 1. Make it easy for customers to buy. Buyers increasingly prefer buying online and expect a smooth experience. Have you fully automated the purchasing of Public Notices, Classifieds, and Obituaries? The technology today is better [...]
Rumor has it that there's only one partner able to provide newspapers with premium, full-service public notice intake and hosting. We couldn't agree more. The iPublish platform offers newspapers a public notice solution no other provider can match. Learn more about our public notice solution or contact us today (sales@ipublishmedia.com) for a demo and how we can help you streamline [...]
Anyone who once read Michael Foreman's children’s book Fortunately, Unfortunately can relate to the news about public notices gathered by the Public Notice Resource Center (PNRC) in 2024. In the book that helps children learn the two words, a child gets himself in and out of a variety of tricky situations. Unfortunately, he falls out of a plane but [...]
iPublish Media Solutions, the leading provider of e-commerce advertising software, and CNPA Services Inc. are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to host a new and enhanced aggregated public notice website capublicnotice.com, a single depository for the state’s published legal notices. Launched in June, the platform provides added features and gives the public greater ease of accessing legal notices in [...]
If you are a newspaper publisher, your press association is working on the creation of a statewide network for public notice placement. We all agree that state press associations should host a statewide public notice network online — they already have relationships with most newspapers and are dedicated to keeping newspapers central to public notice distribution. But state governments [...]
Hearst Communications will roll out AdPortal® Public Notices across the organization this year, automating the process in some cases and replacing existing automation software in others. The most recent launch at The Houston Chronicle is estimated to save 20 hours a week by cutting five to seven steps from an all-manual workflow, according to Clayton Wiseman, workflow consultant and [...]
In 1998, a little office opened in Chicago with one goal: to bring print obituaries online. Twenty-five years, several tech bubbles, and one pandemic later, Legacy.com has grown from twelve employees and a ping–pong table into a coast-to-coast team that provides digital end-of-life services to millions worldwide. As the leader in Obituary services over the last 20 years, [...]
