Category Archives: Digital media sales

Local media need to join the fight for in-store traffic

In the local media business, whatever hurts retailers hurts us, too. They’re feeling a big hurt right now, and we need to help them fight back.

That big hurt is a steady and continuous decline in store traffic. This means loss of sales, and that leads nowhere good for them — or for local media.

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Think bigger than native advertising

One of the biggest challenges legacy media companies face today is learning to think big enough to meet the real 21st-century needs of advertisers.

There’s a lot of talk about native advertising right now. Done right, it can help to meet those real needs. But native is, at best, only a small piece of a much bigger puzzle.

For those who learn how to solve that bigger puzzle for advertisers, the payoff can be much greater than just another sale of print space, air time or digital display units. Read the rest of this entry

The local media company of the future: Selling what, and selling how?

What does the local media company of the future look like?

At this point, the answer is pretty clear. There will be two kinds of media companies:

  • Those that continue to focus on their traditional media channels — newspaper, broadcast television channel, radio station(s) — and therefore shrink along with the advertising spending on those media.
  • Those that morph into local media houses that can connect any advertiser with any audience, through platforms, technologies and channels they own or don’t, to win dollars that are moving into digital advertising and marketing.

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