National brands are increasingly seeing how changes in mobile technology, particularly the ability to combine location awareness with predictive analytics, will completely transform advertising. This is the message Dan Eckert, Managing Director, Emerging Technologies, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, will deliver in his…
Chief Marketing Officers will become "Chief Location Officers" if Where2GetIt CEO Manish Patel has any say about it. Patel is a featured speaker at BIA/Kelsey National in Dallas March 25-27 appearing on a platform leaders panel with Netsertive's Brendan Morrissey,…
Chief Marketing Officers will become "Chief Location Officers" if Where2GetIt CEO Manish Patel has any say about it. Patel is a featured speaker at BIA/Kelsey National in Dallas March 25-27 appearing on a platform leaders panel with Netsertive's Brendan Morrissey,…
Heading back to Washington, DC's snow, ice, and "wintry mixes" was not quite as stimulating as spending time networking and learning at Operative's second annual Ad Revenue and Operations Summit, aka "OP/ED" that attracted about 100 executive last week in…
Heading back to Washington, DC's snow, ice, and "wintry mixes" was not quite as stimulating as spending time networking and learning at Operative's second annual Ad Revenue and Operations Summit, aka "OP/ED" that attracted about 100 executive last week in…
The BIA/Kelsey NATIONAL show is now fully in place, with 56 speakers set to define the cutting edge in national brands and local marketing. The show takes place March 25-27 at The Dallas Westin. Just added to the program: Internet…
The BIA/Kelsey NATIONAL show is now fully in place, with 56 speakers set to define the cutting edge in national brands and local marketing. The show takes place March 25-27 at The Dallas Westin. Just added to the program: Internet…
Q&A with John McIntyre, Founder & CEO, Sightly BIA/Kelsey: John, your company provides targeted, cross-screen video advertising. Video and programmatic targeting are particularly hot right now in the market. So let's talk about that. We've seen this moving from national…
Q&A with John McIntyre, Founder & CEO, Sightly BIA/Kelsey: John, your company provides targeted, cross-screen video advertising. Video and programmatic targeting are particularly hot right now in the market. So let's talk about that. We've seen this moving from national…
Following yesterday's video post on Deseret Digital Media's (DDM) stance on separating new media from old, it's time now to drill down on the "how." (video below) As a brief recap, media companies that launch digital products under entirely new…
Like George Costanza, Deseret Digital Media (DDM) likes to separate its worlds. This is a longstanding debate among media companies about whether or not new digital products and divisions (and correspondingly, ad sales teams) should be independent of the legacy…
We continue to gear up for our National Conference, taking place next month in Dallas. It will be here before we know it. As we put together the program, many themes are emerging. One theme is the importance of national…
We continue to gear up for our National Conference, taking place next month in Dallas. It will be here before we know it. As we put together the program, many themes are emerging. One theme is the importance of national…
At BIA/Kelsey's National Brands, Local Marketing conference March 25-27 in Dallas, we'll be hearing a lot of discussion around where spending is going for national marketers. Based on a survey just released by Duke University's Prof. Christine Moorman the news is…
The call is the new click, as we keep saying. Phone calls to businesses have ratcheted up in the age of the smartphone -- a device that bolts a search engine to a phone. We project this to grow to…
The program for BIA/Kelsey National is building quickly, with many great new speakers, as well as a slew of conference "extras." Taking place March 25-27 in Dallas, BIA/Kelsey National breaks new ground in the local ecosystem, exploring key trends and…
Mobile payments won't take over the universe in 2015, as the tech media would have you believe. But it will have a noticeable impact on our favorite new topic: On demand local services (ODLS), a la Uber. That's where mobile…
It's here! We have just announced the agenda for BIA/Kelsey NATIONAL. which takes place March 25-27 in Dallas. The NATIONAL theme is especially important this year. Local technology and services have reached a level where they have fostered major relationships…
On demand local services (ODLS) a la Uber will not only bring buyer and seller together with leaner unit economics, but could also transform the way local services are marketed and fulfilled. This was the theme of a session we…
On demand local services (ODLS) a la Uber will not only bring buyer and seller together with leaner unit economics, but could also transform the way local services are marketed and fulfilled. This was the theme of a session we…