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Stay up-to-date with news, updates and resources to help your obituary category succeed.Case Study: How Legacy Helped the Marietta Daily Journal Increase Obit Volume 182%
Legacy.com and iPublish Now Providing Classified Call Center Services for McClatchy
New partnership features expanded capabilities now available to all publishers.February 7, 2025 (Chicago) Legacy.com and iPublish Media are thrilled to announce they are now powering classified advertising call center services for all McClatchy properties. Sales,...
Legacy.com and iPublish Now Powering All Wick Communications Obituary Services
New partnership combines self-serve intake, obituary desk management, and platform hosting into one streamlined service package.October 14, 2024 (Chicago): Legacy.com and iPublish Media are thrilled to announce they are now providing fully-managed obituary services...
Legacy partner exclusive: online-only obituary package test
Digital obits appeal to families dealing with the death of a loved one. Meet this need with a custom online-only test package in Legacy’s consumer placement network.We have some important news to share. Your private-party customers want to place obituaries. Now more...
Legacy’s consumer direct placement delivers 110k obits and 52M in revenue to newspapers
To celebrate, we’re offering free marketing resources that will boost your obituary revenue and plug editorial gaps.In late 2022, Legacy quietly embarked on a game-changing initiative to offer every consumer worldwide an easy online way to directly place an obituary...
Forever, Wherever, Whenever: How Technology Has Changed Obituaries
The Legacy.com team reflects on how memorialization has changed since the company’s founding 25 years ago.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 celebrates 5,000,000 tree plantings at an Openlands/Arbor Day event
The milestone reflects Legacy’s investment in helping partners meet reader demand for alternative memorialization options.October 4, 2023 (Chicago): Legacy.com is delighted to announce that the company's memorial tree program recently passed the significant milestone...
An R&D Tour of Legacy’s Consumer Obituary Platform
Discover the development process powering our consumer obituary network.Ten developers. Five thousand work hours and counting. Building the first nationwide obituary network focused on consumers takes a dedicated team driven by one goal: “We want to deliver more...
McClatchy Media Network Partners with Legacy.com on New Obituary Management Services
Online obituaries provide invaluable interactive customer options.February 14, 2023 -- Today, McClatchy, one of the largest media companies in the United States, with over 80 million unique visitors, announced its partnership with Legacy.com and its media technology...
New obit page design delivers 33% more interested notice purchasers…and so much more!
Discover how our streamlined, reader-focused features generate more notices, better engagement, and new revenue.Legacy.com is delighted to announce we’re launching our next major wave of obituary page redesigns. Packed with features to help focus your reader’s...