BIA’s CEO Tom Buono had the opportunity to discuss the company's recent analysis of how COVID-19 has impacted ad revenue, in particular for Radio, in a recent podcast interview with Radio Ink publisher Deborah Parenti. Even with the negative news…
With COVID-19 and public health quarantines, live sports events have been canceled, paused or rescheduled, creating a huge void for millions of sports fans. Marketers and agencies targeting the coveted sports programming audience segments are working hard with publishers to…
The battle between local radio and streaming audio continues for both audience and advertisers. Local radio's core differentiators include huge weekly reach, in-car audiences, in-market sellers that leverage strong buyer relationships and "local feel." That last X-factor, "local feel," is…
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the local media market into a situation where normal rules don't apply, and the new playbook hasn't been written yet. Business leaders desperately seek insights and guidance about how to steward their brands through a…
The coronavirus pandemic clearly is a headwind, but demand for zoned broadcast radio advertising, should it be offered, signals a welcome tailwind for local radio advertising growth with the majority of both Main Street and Madison Avenue advertisers expressing likelihood…
Edison Research and Triton Digital just released the The Infinite Dial, a survey of Americans 18+ and their use of radio, digital audio social and other digital media that first launched 22 years ago. While the news headlines tend to…
If local radio could offer an over-the-air zoned advertising product like local TV stations can, would ad buyers care? Absolutely yes, according to a recent survey by BIA and Advertiser Perceptions. In fact, not only do advertisers like OTA geotargeting,…
Advertisers love television. However, it's experiencing tough love in the form of declining pay subscriptions, consumers spending more time with Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming platforms and services delivered over broadband Internet. Local TV groups still deliver reach, but many are adding…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
