Voice Search is the New Norm?! There's No Time for Skepticism. With Bernadette Coleman, CEO Advice Local This is the latest in BIA Advisory Service’s Vantage Points series where we tap the perspectives of various lookout points from around the local media and tech…
Brand marketers are keen to get grounded insights into how their investments in building brand equity pay off in incremental sales. To address this need, Kantar built a brand guidance system based on search and social signals as outcome indicators…
This is the latest in BIA/Kelsey’s Vantage Points series. On a periodic basis, it will tap the perspectives of various lookout points from around the local media and tech sectors. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect that of BIA/Kelsey. Please contact mbolandATbiakelsey if you…
Pick your target. Know what you are up against. Maximize your local budget. All simple rules of thumb that marketers use when deciding where and how much to advertise. But within each local media market, there can be significant variability…
Last night while conducting a local search, I encountered something strange: Business hours were served within Google's Instant Search drop-down results (see screenshot). After polling a few peers in local search and SEO worlds, it appears this is a new…
Now more than ever, there's a tremendous opportunity for marketing automation sellers to engage SMBs with search engine optimization combined with social marketing. SMBs that want to connect with customers online are utilizing search-optimized web presence linked across multiple channels,…
The consumer’s path to purchase is changing. Technology, consumer preferences and, often, managerial decisions at major search companies can reshape industry strategy. BIA/Kelsey's new report "Consumer Micro-Moments and Businesses: Trends and Best Practices," explores Google's commissioned report from Ipsos, a…
BIA/Kelsey today released a new report, "PPC: The Evolution of a Keystone Customer Acquisition Tool," which explores how pay-per-click advertising inventory has been transformed by the introduction of machine-learning assisted inventory management tools that minimize cost while improving conversion rates…
Apps now consume about 80 percent of consumers' time with mobile. This has big implications for Google, as traditional browser-based search is being displaced to some degree. The question is what this means for local media companies and tech startups?…
The internet is flooded with how-to's and "hacks" -- quick, cheap ways to get things done. For new small businesses with limited resources, it's essential to quickly get customers through the purchase funnel to survive. CenturyLink's recent infographic, "How to Launch a…
So what products and services are small and medium businesses most interested in adding to their marketing activities for 2016? In our current Local Commerce Monitor survey of SMBs (Q3/2015), we asked SMBs about their future marketing and advertising plans in the coming year.…
Search marketing has become mainstream. This has created more competition, which is a double edged sword: crowded bid marketplaces make it harder for SMBs to rank... but it also motivates evolved SEM tactics. This is according to BIA/Kelsey Senior Director, Industry…
We like vertical specialization for local marketing, and have long admired the approach of G5, the Bend, Ore- based local marketing firm that started with a focus on self-storage unit owners in 2005, and later added senior housing, multi-unit property…
Two well-known players in SMB marketing services today announced a partnership to integrate their platforms to provide end-to-end customer acquisition/retention services for SMBs. The new partners are WordStream, a major SEM and search services provider (and Google Premier SMB Partner), and…
Google has made lots of waves in tech and media worlds with last week's revelation that mobile search volume now outweighs desktop. That goes for several developed markets including the U.S. This follows recent LSA data that show mobile has…
UBL, a publicly-owned syndicator of updated business listings and profiles, is merging with The Advice Interactive Group, a fast-growing search marketing firm that has evolved into a full service agency. The merged company is slated to earn nearly $20 million…
UBL, a publicly-owned syndicator of updated business listings and profiles, is merging with The Advice Interactive Group, a fast-growing search marketing firm that has evolved into a full service agency. The merged company is slated to earn nearly $20 million…
YP has made a major push in the past week to become a bigger player in search and to do more to monetize its own search traffic on YP.com, as well as its mobile apps. In the past week the…
Yodle -- part of the class of 2005-2007 SEM-focused Independent Sales Organizations that took on traditional local sales organizations -- filed this week for an IPO that could raise $75 Million. The filing provides insights into Yodle�s evolution, and the…
Yodle -- part of the class of 2005-2007 SEM-focused Independent Sales Organizations that took on traditional local sales organizations -- filed this week for an IPO that could raise $75 Million. The filing provides insights into Yodle�s evolution, and the…
