The higher spending SMBs, which we call Plus Spenders*, use an average of 20.8 different media channels for advertising and promotion, according to Wave 20 (Q3/2016) of our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small and medium businesses. But while the number of…
The on-demand economy evolves, the internet of things finds its way to local, and ClipCall brings multimedia to local services. These were the topics on this week's BIA/Kelsey LIVE. Produced by Mitch Ratcliffe and featuring a rotating cast of analysts and…
Email marketing is a low cost and target rich way for small businesses to market and communicate with current and potential customers without breaking their small advertising budgets. According to our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses, email marketing is one of…
BIA/Kelsey has released A Data-Driven Approach to Marketing Information Acquisition, a sponsored research report exploring the how analysts can use an initial wide-ranging investigational step to discover target customers followed by refinement of selection criteria. It examines how to narrow…
Accenture released a report that declared loyalty points are dead for consumers and there are new factors at play influencing consumers' choices for loyalty. The Accenture Strategy report, ‘Seeing Beyond the Loyalty Illusion: It’s Time You Invest More Wisely’, captures…
Community sponsored marketing like sports teams, civic groups, school and cultural event sponsorships is a great way for small business to show their local community support. With small businesses using multiple channels for marketing, community sponsorships can be a cost effective…
Comscore's 2016 Retail eCommerce announced it's 2016 total U.S. sales results this week. Overall, the eCommerce share of U.S. retail sales amounts to just eight percent. As GDP grows, retail's total sales have dwarfed eCommerce's growth, preventing online from gaining…
Like a lot of emerging tech, conversational commerce is making its way through the typical Gartner Hype Cycle. And now we're in the "trough of disillusionment." That's not to say that the sector has cratered... but that things slow down as…
Despite the tech media's adoration for eCommerce, roughly 93 percent of U.S. retail spending happens in the offline physical world. But it’s increasingly influenced by digital means. This is the topic of a recent panel we ran. The question then…
Gartner Inc. this week released a very bullish report on the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), the class of computational networked devices that are automating and animating consumer lives through voice assistance and personal tracking devices, such as…
In a digital age, voice calls continue to be an under-recognized form of business lead. And as we examined in a recent report, this area of call commerce is advancing quickly and in parallel with the rise of AI. All of this…
Local is different. Different than national advertising. And each locality is different. Although many studies focus on national advertising and marketing spending, we believe an understanding of the features of a local media market must contribute to the strategic use…
The rise in mobile viewing of television and video is also impacting how small businesses advertise. Small businesses use video not on one but on multiple channels. Websites are the most popular place for videos. In fact, 1 in 4…
(Update April 10, 2017 - Join us for our quarterly update on programmatic Thursday, April 13 at 2 pm eastern. Details & Registration here: Local TV Marketing and Programmatic, Advanced TV and Contextual Audience Networks.) Programmatic TV is about data first,…
Facebook reports another solid quarter, Starbucks joins the voice search movement, and the on-demand economy is plotted out. These were topics on this week's BIA/Kelsey LIVE. Produced by Mitch Ratcliffe and featuring a rotating cast of analysts and guests, we'll be…
Clearly, the radio industry got shocked today with the announcement of Entercom and CBS Radio being combined into one company. For several months, the prospect of CBS Radio as a separate public company through a new IPO has led many…
When it comes to social media usage by small and medium businesses (SMBs), Facebook is still King, with 45.0% of SMBs saying they use a Facebook page for advertising and promotion, according to Wave 20 of our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of…
Uber, Lyft, HomeAdvisor, and hundreds more companies have emerged in the local on-demand economy, reshaping local services and employment structures. The latest, receiving an undisclosed amount in Series A funding today, is Grab A Gardener. More than $16 billion in…