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…
BIA/Kelsey's Advanced TV webinar series continues with our assessment of developments in 2017 and a look ahead at expectations for 2018. We'll sort out players, roles strategies and our panel will bring their own points of view to the discussion.…
BIA/Kelsey's Local Commerce Monitor provides analytics and insights to help B2B media sellers and marketers segment the dynamic Small and Medium Business (SMB) market by highlighting differences in how these businesses operate when it comes to utilizing traditional and digital advertising and…
AdExchanger's Programmatic I/O New York conference brought together 1,500 marketers, agencies, media, tech and other practitioners to talk about how data, tech, and business models are evolving in programmatic advertising. Day 1 consisted of instructional, hands on workshops. Day 2 featured the…
Digital advertising is the growth engine in the advertising economy overall, but within that story mobile advertising is driving the headlines. BIA/Kelsey forecasts that geotargeted mobile advertising will nearly triple from $12.4 billion in 2016 to $33.3 billion in 2021.…
"I'm a software guy, not a car guy," proclaims John Ellis, author of The Zero Dollar Car. Ellis began his tech career at Motorola then moved on to Ford and connected cars where he says they were looking at 2020…
Greg Chambers, global group director of digital innovation for Coca-Cola, told BIA/Kelsey Local Impact conference attendees that, "Signage is in the DNA of Coke." Digital signage is used to localize and contextualize brand messaging and engagement. Digital signage is a…
JPMorgan Chase & Company's Local Consumer Commerce Index analyses 20 billion transactions by 60 million Chase credit and debit card holders in 15 metro areas. Its most recently released report shows an overall 1.0 percent growth (June 2016 vs June 2017)…
Ad fraud is siphoning revenue away from legitimate publishers and delivering the wrong audiences to advertisers. Both publishers and marketers targeting local audiences should not only be aware of the risks of ad fraud but also take proactive action to…
