24 Jan 2023

What Newspapers Really Want

By |2023-01-24T16:34:17-05:00January 24th, 2023|AdPortal, Classified, Digital, Facebook Ads, Legals, Obituary, Print, Programmatic, Public Notices, Real Estate|

Over the past decade, newspapers have asked for all kinds of new features in their self-serve AdPortal®, and we answered by continuously iterating our advertising platform to meet these priorities. Here are a few of your top concerns that are now standard features in iPublish AdPortal®: Leverage the call center Not only do customers now place DIY orders for [...]

10 Jan 2023

2023 Resolution: World-class Customer Service with Streamlined Call Center

By |2023-01-10T07:58:46-05:00January 10th, 2023|AdPortal, Classified, Digital, Facebook Ads, Legals, Obituary, Print, Programmatic, Public Notices, Real Estate|

A funny thing happened over the past few years as regional and national media organizations consolidated - call center representatives absorbed an increasing number of transactions and more responsibility. Today, these call-center teams are smaller than ever before and responsible for customer support, inbound order-taking, and outbound sales for a growing number of products, platforms, and packages. Additionally, these teams [...]

9 Jun 2021

McClatchy Newspapers Converted nearly 40% of Public Notices to a DIY Automated Process

By |2021-09-14T10:05:45-04:00June 9th, 2021|AdPortal, Press Release, Public Notices|

Westborough, MA., June 9, 2021 – In less than six months, McClatchy Newspapers converted nearly 40% of public notices to a DIY automated process powered by iPublish Media Solutions. After launching iPublish Media‘s AdPortal Public Notices, all print notices are now being created and purchased using AdPortal’s self-service workflow. The portal has automated pricing, designing and placing the public [...]

18 Aug 2020

The Biggest Surprise About Targeted Obituaries On Facebook: Love

By |2020-08-31T13:17:25-04:00August 18th, 2020|AdPortal, Digital, Public Notices|

Reaching Friends and Family How do you put a price on love, on connection and on memories? Families placing obituaries, planning funerals, making arrangements have so much to think about. When it comes to sharing the news - newspapers, calls, emails, social media (they may have access to the Facebook account of the deceased) - those methods do not [...]

11 Aug 2020

Leveraging Social Audiences to Create a Better Obituary

By |2020-08-11T13:12:23-04:00August 11th, 2020|AdPortal, Digital, Public Notices|

iPublish Media Solutions and Legacy.com are hosting a roundtable discussion on new Obituary strategies at LMA's Digital Summit Week. Friday, August 14th at 1:30pm Leveraging Social Audiences to Create a Better Obituary REGISTER TODAY When was the last time you received a message from your customer like this? Find out how The Chicago Sun-Times and The Salt Lake [...]

16 Jul 2020

Public Notices In The News

By |2020-07-16T12:09:55-04:00July 16th, 2020|AdPortal, Digital, Public Notices|

A recent round of news reports have underscored how critical paid public notices are for many newspapers simply trying to stay afloat. The recent articles in Editor & Publisher, LocalMediaInsider and Poynter Institute also convey how the franchise is under increasing attacks from some state legislatures around the country. While most of these battles are over for 2020, the [...]

12 May 2020

AdPortal Public Notices Platform Improves Ease of Publishing Notices

By |2020-05-12T16:39:24-04:00May 12th, 2020|AdPortal, Public Notices|

If you don’t work for a newspaper, you probably don’t know who is one of the most difficult people to replace when they are away from the office. Hint: it is not the publisher or the top sales rep, but the person who oversees public notice ads. Public Notice Challenges Typically part of the classifieds department, the people in [...]

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