Facebook has made huge strides in local the last couple of years, driving significant geotargeted mobile revenue and integrating efforts with hundreds of thousands of SMBs. Speaking at Street Fight Summit West in San Francisco today, Local Product Marketing Manager…
One of the themes that emerged from BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local conference in Atlanta earlier this month was the importance of location targeted ad strategies for national brands. That theme culminated in a mega session on Day 2 of the…
One of the themes that emerged from BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local conference in Atlanta earlier this month was the importance of location targeted ad strategies for national brands. That theme culminated in a mega session on Day 2 of the…
Video is quickly becoming one of the most transformative areas in digital tech & media. It's right up there with mobile and social media. In fact, its quickly colliding with both of those areas as underlying mobile technology and…
Last week’s Leading in Local: The National Impact Conference was a success, with lots of new themes around localization strategies for national brands.
It wasn’t the same old jargon-filled abstractions we too-often see in the conference world — especially when it involves national brand advertising. The case study-driven approach grounded the analysis in concrete and tactical takeaways.
For more, you can see our aggregated blog coverage, and we’re working on a recap post to distill these main themes (Marchex’s Leslie Ihnot did similar). Until then, just for fun, here’s a representative sample of tweets from the show that capture various moments (after the page jump).
@Foursquare users are 352% more likely to use their smartphone to find a location than the average consumer. #LEADINGINLOCAL
— BIA/Kelsey (@BIAKelsey) May 7, 2014
The idea that everything is local came through in this morning's session, "Buy Side, Sell Side: Top Insights from Yelp and U-Haul" featuring two speakers sharing insights from opposite ends of the media purchase. Elnora Cunningham, Director, Local Search, U-Haul…
The idea that everything is local came through in this morning's session, "Buy Side, Sell Side: Top Insights from Yelp and U-Haul" featuring two speakers sharing insights from opposite ends of the media purchase. Elnora Cunningham, Director, Local Search, U-Haul…
Following yesterday's talk from Living Social's Mitch Spolan, this morning at Leading in Local: The National Impact, The Weather Co.'s Curt Hecht offered another primer on applying creativity to national to local marketing and advertising. Hecht is an ad…
The convergence of 'local-local' and 'national-local' was in full swing on Day 1 of BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local: The National Impact conference yesterday in Atlanta. AAA, Aflac, AutoTrader, Balihoo, Living Social, Fourquare, LocalVox, Two Men and a Truck, Yodle, YP…
"Deals are very, very powerful for many brands," but the deals themselves only represent part of the overall opportunity that brands have in working with deals companies and their millions of local customers, said Living Social EVP of National Retail…
During his kickoff keynote today at Leading in Local: The National Impact, Foursquare VP of Sales Rob Wilk asserted that his company sits at the intersection of interest and discovery. This has remained unchanged since its 2008 launch at SXSW…
In the incredibly competitive local advertising marketplaces throughout the U.S., national advertisers are playing a bigger role. National advertisers are increasing their spending in these local markets to target consumers in specific geographic areas. While they still spend on nationwide…
For the ladies who attended BIA/Kesley's Women Leading In Local session at our December 2013 conference in San Francisco, you may remember that one of our speakers was Jayla Siciliano, CEO of Bon Affair. Jayla is the young, ambitious entrepreneur…
For the ladies who attended BIA/Kesley's Women Leading In Local session at our December 2013 conference in San Francisco, you may remember that one of our speakers was Jayla Siciliano, CEO of Bon Affair. Jayla is the young, ambitious entrepreneur…
Eyeview and G/O Digital have brought a personalized and hyperlocal flavor to the Go Local Awards with their program to help appliance retailer Conn's use video to distribute its local circular content. The awards, co-presented by BIA/Kelsey and Balihoo, showcase…
Eventful, the latest Go Local Awards finalist to be featured here, borrowed a technique often used for film trailers to promote a new TV show, Fox's "Sleepy Hollow," with tremendous results. The program used digital media to created a competition…
Eventful, the latest Go Local Awards finalist to be featured here, borrowed a technique often used for film trailers to promote a new TV show, Fox's "Sleepy Hollow," with tremendous results. The program used digital media to created a competition…
Recently I have found that talks about "professional brand" have been coming up a lot. Here at BIA/Kelsey we define professional brand as "a promise of the value you'll deliver" aka your professional reputation. It can also describe your potential…
Recently I have found that talks about "professional brand" have been coming up a lot. Here at BIA/Kelsey we define professional brand as "a promise of the value you'll deliver" aka your professional reputation. It can also describe your potential…
Wanderful Media, which has been tasked by the newspaper industry to remake the circular industry in the mobile social era. has raised a new round of $14.5 Million. Altogether, the company has raised $50.5 Million since its September 2012 launch.…