MarTech East kicked off yesterday at Boston's Hynes Convention Center and concludes today. Conference speakers embraced the fundamental themes of how technology and data can be used both to drive operational efficiency, but more importantly to help humanize brands and engage consumers.…
As the graphic presented above (from a recent TV Technology article) highlights, ATSC 3.0 and 5G deployments, capabilities, and industry commitments are running on similar timelines. The local TV industry is ramping up its testing and deployments of its NextGen platform, ATSC 3.0, and…
At our BIA LOCAL IMPACT Los Angeles event in July 2018, we featured a LaaS workshop where leading solution providers shared case studies demonstrating the ROI for national brands using data-driven tech platforms for local marketing activations. Our goal in sharing…
In this edition of BIA Advisory Service's Vantage Points, we share insights from John Hane, President, Spectrum Co. The Vantage Point series taps the perspectives of various lookout points from around the local media and tech sectors. The views expressed do…
NOTE: This post was revised 9/21/18 to correct an editing error. As BIA works with clients to strategize revenue growth prospects for local TV, we're considering the Total Addressable Markets (TAM) for broadcast television versus digital platforms. It's a tale of two cities.…
The Future Today Institute (FTI) just released its 2019 Trend Report for Journalism, Media and Tech examining 108 significant trends including topics such as AI, block chain, virtual reality, bots, machine learning and ranging into areas like accountability and trust. This report, available for…
In this edition of BIA Advisory Service's Vantage Points, we share insights from Robert Hawthorne, President, Hawthorne Search. The Vantage Point series taps the perspectives of various lookout points from around the local media and tech sectors. The views expressed do…
While local TV groups and MVPDs strive to achieve significant revenue growth with their traditional advertising products, progress can be hampered by the increased spend shifting to digital ad platforms in local markets. BIA forecasts that digital media will increase from…
Local media executives already are or soon will be headed into budgeting season. CEOs, CROs, and CFOs will be working with executives at their various business units to develop top-level views of advertising expectations and other secular and cyclical industry…
National brands want to both look good at the local level and drive engagement. Balancing brand policies with local autonomy is boosted with automated platforms. The "Local as a Service" (LaaS) space is dynamic and innovative, comprising a landscape of companies…
BIA Advisory Service's released our latest report in the advanced TV series, Advanced TV and Innovation in Local Markets. To dig into the current marketplace trends and get informed views about what the leading indicators are and what we should expect to see, we've…
Some businesses have customer loyalty programs and others don't. According to BIA's research, about 60 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) either have or plan to have a customer loyalty program. Here's the question: do customer loyalty programs actually…
NAB's PILOT commissioned BIA Advisory Services to explore how ATSC 3.0 can help broadcasters develop new revenue and public service opportunities in the data-driven marketing and audience targeting landscape. BIA Advisory Services presented several prominent data-centric opportunities and identified a…
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have out-sized marketing power with the range of integrated advertising technology (adtech) and marketing technology (martech) platforms that are affordable for businesses with less than 100 employees. For any business to benefit from data-driven media campaigns,…
In this BIA Vantage Points invited post, Premium Media 360, a TV data automation firm that synchronizes data among media and agency partners, argues that having data and automating TV advertising platforms are critical success factors. However, there remains the…
Today's marketers and agencies have been hard at work with media and data intelligence companies to develop audience targeting matched to strategic consumer segmentation profiles. The goal is to align audience targeted media buys with relevant creative messaging. One challenge has…
Frank Friedman, president of Publicis Media Exchange, is a major thought leader and influencer working to encourage automation in buying spot TV. TVNewscheck ran an article earlier this year on Friedman's efforts to "trail-blaze" an automated buying system to place…
BIA's Local Commerce Monitor reveals that 45.1 percent of SMBs use mobile apps. These SMBs rate this marketing channel highly in terms of ROI for their ad spend. Overall, about half (49 percent) rate their investments in mobile apps as returning as…
BIA's complimentary Geotargeted Ad Fraud webinar, Wed March 21st from 2pm-3pm EST, tackles both a well-recognized and growing problem in digital media. In this webinar, we’ll dissect what’s going on in geotargeted ad fraud and explore the different kinds of fraud…
In BIA/Kelsey's latest report in our series on advanced TV, Advanced TV: Executive Views on Industry Progress and Directions, we highlight discussions with executives coming from media and data companies. In their views, the current state of Advanced TV comes…
