Streamline your entire advertising operations and delight your customers.
Publishers use Column to reduce operational costs and deliver a modern customer experience for all their customers across legal notices, obituaries, and classifieds.
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Why Publishers Choose Column
“Out of all the new technology we’ve adopted during our digital transformation, Column is by far the most user-friendly. It’s exceptionally simple to learn.”
Sam Bennett | Chief Revenue OfficerAmsterdam News, New York
"Having been in the industry since 1985, and working with countless vendors implementing systems and processes, I’ve been really impressed with Column. Their responsiveness is remarkable. They seem able to solve every problem."
Missy Carey | Ad OperationsSouthern California News Group
"Our county treasurers were ecstatic. Column enabled them to create and place notices by themselves. Column has been absolutely necessary for our publications to compete in the digital world.”
Francis Wick | CEOWick Communications
"It became clear that with our rapid expansion, Column was critical for us to streamline our operations and relieve staff of the manual time they'd been spending on legals previously.”
Kathy Malm | VP of SalesCherryroad Media
“We’re proud to partner with Column for delivery of public notice advertising. Column helps modernize and streamline our services to government and private customers that place public notices."
Bruce Faulman | VP AdvertisingTampa Bay Times
"Our legal ad sales are up approximately 14% in 2022 over the comparable period in 2021. Most importantly, the time that our staff spend on legal advertising placement and billing has been greatly reduced. We’re saving a lot of time and money by letting Column do the work."
Dave Buffington | Owner & PublisherThe Sun Newspaper, Hummelstown PA
“People want convenience. Column allows the client to work from home if when need. They just log into the portal and place a notice whenever they want. Column’s easier than you think, and your clients will embrace it.”
Lori Figurski | Regional Director of AdvertisingOgden Newspapers
“My number one priority is running my newspaper as well as I can run it. I knew our legals business had to be better for our customers, and for us. Column was incredibly responsive and attentive to our needs.”
Bob O'Leary | Vice President of AdvertisingDaily Gazette, New York
“Legals have always been important, and they will always be important. Column provides the digital infrastructure necessary to get this important information into the hands of the people.”
Bryce Jacobson | Chief Revenue OfficerSeaton Publishing & Grand Junction Media
Manage legals, classifieds, and obituaries in one place.
Column is a complete solution for managing your advertising categories from start to finish.
Offer an intuitive & modern self-serve experience.
Stop spending time copying & pasting word documents from your email into your ad management system.
Outsource costly & time-intensive processes.
Column offers a suite of services that can streamline your internal processes and reduce operational costs.
Offer simple & secure online payment options.
Standardize your payment process across advertisers and modernize your financial reporting.
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Our Products
We are experts in legal notices, obituaries, and classifieds. Our products are designed to make things simple, efficient, and organized for everybody involved in the publishing process. We take user feedback seriously and ship features that we know add value.
Legal Notices
Every minute a customer uses Column to submit a legal notice. We provide the most comprehensive set of tools for managing the legal notice process available for publishers, law firms, and governments.
Obituaries
We believe the most important legacy is the story of your loved ones. Families, funeral homes, and publishers work together in Column to honor those legacies with care and ease.
Classifieds
Businesses owners and advertisers can enjoy a seamless self-serve experience creating, managing, and publishing classifieds — everything from real estate to milestones to business announcements.
Explore Our Services
In addition to our software products, we offer a suite of professional services designed to deliver significant cost savings to your organization. We handle the tedious & time-consuming tasks so you can focus on managing the rest of your business.
Affidavits
Hundreds of publications have successfully outsourced their entire affidavit operations by using Column. We take care of signing and notarizing all your affidavits, and delivering them court-ready to your clients.
Order Management
Our team becomes your team. Column Reps bring decades of experience working at newspapers across the US. We supercharge our team with powerful workflow tools to handle orders on behalf of your business.
Nationwide Posting
Does your organization need to publish a lot of notices? Need to publish across different counties or cities? Our team can help you fulfill publication requirements with any newspaper in the US.
Integrations
Naturally, we believe Column is the only system you need to run your advertising operations. But, until you make the switch to our full platform, we are happy to work with you on integrating into existing ad management systems or tools your organization utilizes.
Pagination
There a lot of manual tasks, sometimes entire teams, that focus on exclusively on pagination. You can eliminate pagination work from your process by working with Column. This service can even help bypass additional integration work you might be considering.