ATSC 3.0’s Identity Crisis
NextGen TV, nee ATSC 3.0, may be emerging from an identity crisis. What is it and how is it different from everything else in TV land? Two events kicking off the New Year created a bit more clarity. We're still…
Vantage Points: Addressable TV Status in Local Markets
In this edition of BIA Advisory Services’ Vantage Points series, Alan Wolk, Co-Founder/Lead Analyst, TVREV has a conversation with BIA about his new special report on television and The State of Addressable Advertising. The report is available to BIA readers for discount using…
New Year’s Resolution: Help Advertising Clients Navigate Emerging Data Privacy Policies
With tomorrow's dawning, California will rumble as the epicenter of yet another seismic event. This time it'll be shifting tectonic plates in the data and marketing world that'll spin the dial on the Richter Scale. The California Consumer Protection Act…
Santa’s Addressability Problem
In spite of the rise of marketing clouds, data science, and martech capable of matching individual consumers to specific data from disparate collections of data, we have an Addressability Problem. Let's view what this means with a timely use case.…
Okay Boomer, Time to Change Ownership Regs and Business Models.
On the day Inside Radio’s lead story was the Third Circuit Court’s refusal to revisit its rejection of the FCC relaxed ownership rules, the FCC held its Symposium on Current and Future Trends in the Broadcast Radio and Television Industries.…
BIA’s Local Ad Forecast: Automotive, Political Make the Move into OTT
BIA's 2020 forecast puts total local ad spending (any geotargeted paid media ads) at $161 billion dollars. A new element to our forecast is breaking out Over-The-Top (OTT) ad spending targeting local audiences, along with separating Political into it's own…
Addressable TV Status and What’s Coming Next. BIA Webinar Dec 9th.
Join us at December 9th at 2pm EST, for a webinar on where we're headed with addressable TV in local markets. Addressable TV has become an important topic this year because of the attention it is getting in the press…
NextGen TV Fills in the Blanks as a New Local Ad Platform
ATSC 3.0 now has an official name and logo, and perhaps it's a bit more likely to roll off consumers's tongues and stick with them: "NextGen TV." Branded by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and coordinated with the ATSC, NAB…
Early OTT Local Ad Spend Targets CTV Platforms
Last week BIA posted our first look at our new OTT Local Ad forecast, showing a fast growth curve from about $850 million this year to over $2 billion by 2024. Digging a bit deeper into what's behind our forecast,…
Will This Innovation Come to Local Radio? Agencies Hope So.
If local radio stations could offer over-the-air geofenced broadcast zones, the industry stands to gain up to $750 million in incremental annual revenue, according to a recent BIA Advisory Services study. Instead, radio stations have become the last major medium…
On the Front Lines of Media: Reflections on our 500th Edition of Local Media & Technology Daily
BIA’s newsletter, Local Media and Technology Daily, just published its 500th edition this week. Since the launch of our newsletter program five years ago, we’ve attracted an audience of about 7,000 media, agency, brand, adtech and martech industry executives every…
Ad Agencies Meet ATSC 3.0
Inside the local TV broadcast industry there has been speculation, aspiration, excitement, and hard work bringing to market the new capabilities of Next Gen TV. Most broadcasters are at least optimistic if not fully bullish about new growth and competitive…
Local Radio Can Win “Digital Dollars” by Getting More Competitive
BIA's mid-year forecast predicts that the 8 digital local ad platforms we track will generate $59.5 billion of the total $148.8 billion we expect advertisers to spend targeting local audiences. That is 40 percent of the total local ad spending.…
Automotive Drives the Need for Local TV Attribution – Topic of Upcoming Webinar on July 18
BIA and the Secret Society are collaborating on how attribution can help local TV drive grow revenue in the Automotive vertical and will kick this off in a July 18th webinar "TV Attribution: Opinions and Discoveries" to be held from…
CPB Releases BIA Report on ATSC 3.0 and Public Media
In a report we've prepared for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), BIA examines the opportunities of ATSC 3.0 and provides recommendations for public media entities as they plan their local market roll-out strategies. First, a foundational question must be…
Toto, We’re Not in Kansas Anymore. Local TV’s in Tornado Alley.
It is possible that the local TV market is in the early throes of reinventing itself, for real. Climate change is real in local TV. The key ingredients are in place. The incumbent local video players are the local TV…
Vantage Points: CUMULUS MEDIA | Westwood One’s Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard on Media Attribution: Radio’s ROI Exceeds Digital, TV
Pierre Bouvard Chief Insights Officer, Cumulus Media | Westwood One In this edition of BIA Advisory Services’ Vantage Points series, we share key learnings on new attribution research from Pierre Bouvard, Chief Insights Officer for Cumulus Media | Westwood One…
eSports Evolution – Where We Are and What’s Next – Focus of Webinar 4.24
eSports is a form of competitive video gaming where real online video gaming players engage in virtual sports contests before live and online spectators. What's most fascinating about this emerging marketplace is the opportunity for media companies. eSports offers a…
Vantage Points: Mangesh Wadegaonkar Joins BIA’s Strategy Advisory Group as Executive Adviser
Mangesh WadegaonkarExecutive Advisory, BIA In this edition of BIA Advisory Services' Vantage Points, we share insights from Mangesh Wadegaonkar, BIA's new executive industry adviser in our strategy consulting practice. Mangesh has deep expertise as a strategist in Internet cloud-enabled businesses,…
Make Room for OTT at the Ad-Supported TV Table. A Lot of Room.
BIA's coverage of the advanced TV sector includes the rising star of Over-the-Top (OTT) ad-supported TV. For those seeking a primer about this space, we'll call out our fellow industry analysts Alan Wolk, co-founder and lead analyst of TV[R]EV, along…