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Stay up-to-date with news, updates and resources to help your obituary category succeed.Legacy.com Flower Delivery Support During COVID-19
Our florist partners are working to deliver sympathy flowers. As families and businesses continue practicing social distancing during the COVID-19 crisis, Legacy and our florist partners are committed to doing everything possible to deliver sympathy flowers in a safe...
Legacy.com Newspaper Partner Support During COVID-19
Newspapers, funeral homes, and the communities they serve are already feeling the economic impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic. Legacy's full-service platform has deployed significant resources and fast-tracked critical new products to support our newspaper partners with...
Threepeat! Legacy.com Customer Service Wins Silver at the 2020 Stevie Awards
We are thrilled to announce that, once again, Legacy.com earned a silver medal for Customer Service Department of the Year at the 14th annual Stevie Awards. The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world’s top honors for customer service, contact...
The Funeral Home Obit Subscription Model
The pace of change in local news publishing seems to have stepped up a bit lately. Forward-thinking news organizations are addressing these challenges with some creative new business models, most of which place firm emphasis on a digital focus. Here at Legacy,...
We’re a Stevie Award Finalist…AGAIN!
We’re delighted to announce that Legacy.com is once again a Stevie Awards finalist for Customer Service Department of the Year. The Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards. This marks the third year in...
Legacy.com Acquires iPublish Media
LEGACY.COM ACQUIRES iPUBLISH MEDIA SOLUTIONS Acquisition supports Legacy’s increased investment in newspapers and funeral homes ♦♦♦♦ CHICAGO, Ill. (January 15, 2020) – Legacy.com, Inc., the leading provider of online obituary...
The California Consumer Privacy Act: You’ve Got Questions, We’ve Got Answers
Learn what the CCPA means for your obituaries page and how we’re helping protect your obituary readers’ privacy. What is the California Consumer Privacy Act? The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a law that goes into effect on January 1, 2020 that gives...
Our New Mobile Pages Load So Quickly, We Had to Update Our Tracking to Keep Up
We know you want to offer your readers the best online experience. We do, too. With 55% of all users viewing obituaries on a mobile device, we recently set out to test a mobile obituary page based on Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) design. As Google describes...
We’re Google News Certified, and It Shows
We’re delighted to announce that Legacy.com is now officially certified for inclusion in the Google News Publisher Center. This means that our obituaries, award-winning articles, and featured deaths coverage are now indexed in Google’s trusted News directory. Now,...
Coming Soon: A Boost to Loyal Reader Traffic—at No Cost
We’re always looking for ways to drive more traffic to your site. Based on the popularity of our new obituary email program, we recently tested a new feature that asks readers if they would like to receive daily notifications of new obituaries. These alerts are...