Military Times announced a partnership with iPublish Media Solutions to offer a small-to-medium business guide free of charge to veterans and military families. The purpose of this site is to encourage military families and other patriotic Americans to shop at these veteran-owned businesses; also known as Veteran Service Organizations (VSO). According to Mort Greenberg, SVP of Sales for Sightline Media, [...]
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 [...]
Arlington, VA., March 24, 2021 – Military Times has launched a new self-service obituary platform to provide families of veterans with a free way to easily tell the story of their loved ones and their years of service. In partnership with iPublish Media Solutions and Legacy.com, the new Military Times obituary platform will offer a free, permanent online obituary of [...]
Yes, newspapers can help reforest the country. The latest initiative from iPublish Media Solutions helps newspapers "Reforest America" with every obituary sold. Each time an obituary is placed, participating newspapers include a tree planted in a forest in need. A Memorial Certificate from The Arbor Day Foundation and the newspaper is created for the purchaser of the obituary. Families take [...]
A recent Local Marketing Trends Podcast with Corey Elliot and Gordon Borrell discusses the results of recent Borrell Associates “Content Marketing & Branded Content” survey conducted on behalf of the Local Media Consortium. The survey results give hope to local media that Fall, and holidays advertising will be better than Spring & Summer in 2020. Gordon & Corey discuss “what [...]
We gathered your questions about implementing Targeted Obituaries from the presentation with the Chicago Sun-Times and Utah Media Group (Salt Lake Tribune) at the 2020 Local Media Association Digital Summit. Here are the most common questions asked: How does the Facebook targeting compete, complement or make redundant Legacy.com’s new local newspaper-branded Facebook page for obituaries? The targeted [...]
Traditional Facebook Posts Only Reach a Fraction of Friends Families have been using Facebook to notify friends, relatives, and others about the death of a loved one for years. The biggest challenge, according to Facebook, is users who rely on a traditional Facebook “post” generally reach only 10% to 40% percent of their friends on the platform. Globally recognized [...]
Three Must-Have Objectives for Local Media in 2020 We’ve come a long way. In 2020, local media companies increasingly understand the rules of the game—invest in editorial and revenue growth, and automate everything else possible in the back end to reduce costs. Companies that forget one of the three legs of a stool get stuck in a binary trap—cut [...]
Legacy.com Acquires iPublish Media Solutions Acquisition supports Legacy’s increased investment in newspapers and funeral homes Chicago, IL (January 15, 2020) - Legacy.com, Inc., the leading provider of online obituary solutions in the U.S., has acquired iPublish Media Solutions, the most widely used self-serve platform for placement of obituaries and other announcements in U.S. newspapers. Legacy.com has been an innovator [...]
Our newspaper partner customers have great ideas that over the years have turned to enhancements to the iPublish Media Solutions AdPortal Self-Service advertising platform. These benefits extend to our other partners, helping the overall industry. We want to take a moment to say thank you and acknowledge the contributions to the newspaper industry from our partners—sharing ideas to improve [...]
