This week in Boston's seaport district the inaugural "Martech" event (aka "the marketing technology conference") is taking place bringing together a range of brands, ad tech, martech, analysts, authors and developers into sort of an avant garde cultural exchange. Technology,…
BIA/Kelsey participated in a thought leadership summit hosted by the American Press Institute yesterday at NPR's headquarters in Washington, DC to explore content and revenue strategies around digital video with about 50 participants. Five discussion panels covered topics ranging from…
Google is well known for its forays into seemingly exotic innovations such as skunkworks, top secret Project X research lab known for coming out with inventions like driverless cars, Google Glass and high altitude balloons for bringing the Internet to…
Google is well known for its forays into seemingly exotic innovations such as skunkworks, top secret Project X research lab known for coming out with inventions like driverless cars, Google Glass and high altitude balloons for bringing the Internet to…
In a digital world that has us all swimming in readily accessible data, one might be tempted to torture the familiar line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner into, "Data, data everywhere. Nor any drop of insight to drink."…
Jason E. Klein, Founder and CEO of On Grid Ventures, led a StreetFight Summit panel of investors exploring where the next billion dollar opportunities in hyperlocal might be. Joining Klein were Matt Turck, Managing Partner, First Mark Capital and Ben Siscovick, with IA…
Speaking at Digital Media East 2013 today, I shared five themes we're seeing in local media and among Small-Medium Businesses (SMBs): 1. Traditional Media rule... and will continue to do so. 2. Content (generation, discovery, distribution) as ever stronger nexus…
First Data's Senior VP Dom Morea provided a set of important insights into the next generation of marketing services to small and medium businesses (SMBs) at BIA/Kelsey's 2013 SMB Digital Marketing conference, saying these may be more about "commerce" than…
During a Webinar yesterday, BIA/Kelsey's Senior Analyst Mike Boland, along with Marchex VP of Operations Travis Fairchild and Head of SEM Cody Kunning discussed how businesses and those managing online and mobile advertising campaigns can best maximize performance with Google's…
This is "Internet Week" in New York City as MediaPost hosts a series of conferences on the heels of the the second annual Digital Content Newsfronts. This is the Internet industry's answer to broadcast and cable television's "Upfronts" where the major…
If you're planning to be at next week's NAB Show in Las Vegas, please look us up. During A Fireside Chat with Facebook and Google: Partnerships and New Ventures, I will interview Kay Madati from Facebook; and Bright Parks and…
Sabrina Alimi, IAB's senior manager of Industry Initiatives spoke today at BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local Conference. Alimi reported that, "IAB's Local Committee has been looking at three areas - local search; mobile location; and data transparency." For local search, the…
Native advertising was on stage today at BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local Conference. Chris Cunningham, CEO, appsavvy and Jeff Moriarty, VP Digital, The Boston Globe spoke to reimagining advertising by integrating ads and content for a seamless experience. Cunningham spoke to…
Shane Vaughn, Chief Marketing Officer at Balihoo, spoke today at BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local Conference and shared findings from a new CMO Council research study on how national brands will leverage local channels to activate local customers. The report can…
Al Jazeera's apparent $500 million deal to acquire Current TV's 40 million U.S. cable homes, as reported in the New York Times, essentially values U.S. cable network distribution at $10.25 per cable home. Is this transaction a good deal? And…
BIA/Kelsey's Local Commerce Monitor of SMBs shows that in our core sample (up to 100 employees, no minimum ad spend level), the number of marketing media used for advertising and promotion is on a path to double in 2013. The…
As I argued in a recent TV Technology article, "It's inescapable that today's video consumer expects cross-platform access to content. If that's where the audience and advertisers are, then broadcasters need to be there, as well. What broadcasters need to…
What is "native advertising"? A Google search returns 109 thousand hits for a term that is just over a year old. Some credit Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson with coining the term in September 2011. Wilson argued at the time…
Verve Mobile's CEO Tom MacIsaac is bullish on local publishers' ability to drive this revenue growth by selling local audiences not just to local advertisers but also to national brands seeking access to local audiences in a trusted context, through…
From iPad apps to cross-media daily deals to paid firewalls to local ad networks, leading newspaper companies have shifted their revenue mix as they develop their plans to keep them as local leaders. Mike Hodges, President/COO of U-T San Diego…
