"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…
In this latest in BIA/Kelsey Vantage Points article, GotU, a Los Angeles-based advertising technology solutions provider, offers tactical strategies for local businesses trying to find advertising success and stand out among the big companies in digital advertising. In addition to…
Local TV stations are sometimes unintentionally perceived as one dimensional by media professionals, marketers and Wall Street. And yet despite the expansion of content and distribution channels over the past twenty-five years, these local stations have retained a core set…
BIA/Kelsey’s newest report "Insights into Local Advertising — Healthcare Vertical" examines local media spending trends and consumer media usage habits in the healthcare category. You can read an excerpt from the report’s executive summary below. A complimentary full executive summary is available for download from our estore.…
BIA/Kelsey's latest research report examining Advanced TV shows continuing innovation and progress albeit with hurdles and challenges. BIA/Kelsey defines "advanced TV" as comprising the domains of data-enhanced audience targeting via addressable, contextual audience networks, OTT, Connected TV and programmatic TV…
For the B2B community, serving the needs of SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses), there is good news. According to BIA/Kelsey's Local Commerce Monitor survey, 59.6% of SMBs are expecting revenue increases over the next 12 months. And over half (52.9%)…
Over-the-Top TV (OTT) is attracting new entrants and keeping some on the sidelines while they assess their best strategy. It's "game on" for local TV broadcasters to put their premium video in front of multi-screen consumers in marketable formats. As…
Reveal Mobile's founder/CEO Brian Handly will keynote BIA/Kelsey's LOCAL IMPACT Atlanta on October 12th to share insights and data about how mobile location data holds great promise for advertising performance. Handly will provide his perspective on the location data industry…
According to BIA/Kelsey's newly released report "Insights into Local Advertising — Automotive Vertical" businesses in the automotive vertical account for 10% of the total local advertising money that will be spent in the U.S. in 2017, which puts automotive third behind retail and…
BIA/Kelsey's new "Fireside Chat" series features lively interactions with industry thought leaders who take a break from the press of day-to-day business to offer up some perspective. We launch this series with our new Executive-in-Residence who's starting with us this…
What do you get when you mix Coca-Cola with Google? That's what Greg Chambers, Coca-Cola's global group director of digital innovation wondered. Chambers is keynoting BIA/Kelsey's LOCAL IMPACT Atlanta conference on October 12th. He will share insights of the journey…
The confluence of emerging capabilities across technology, location data, analytics and identity management brings marketers new tools to address the simple equation of determining what consumer impact their marketing spend has. A common attribution metric the differential foot traffic a…
BIA/Kelsey's newest report "Insights into Local Advertising -- Automotive Vertical" examines local media spending trends and consumer media usage habits in the automotive category. "Technology and consumers shifting shopping behaviors have had a large impact on the auto industry, even for repair…
Advertisers in BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor™ annual survey of small and medium businesses that use directories (including Internet and Print Yellow Pages) spent more on advertising overall than those advertisers who don't use directories. The average annual ad spend for Core* directory…
Social media for the second year has topped as the most popular digital channel used by small businesses. 78% of small businesses say they use at least one social media channel according to BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor™, Wave 20 (Q3/2016). SMBs' use…
Simpli.fi's CEO Frost Prioleau recently shared with us some of his views, and a new product entry, into understanding how geotargeted ad spend drives offline conversion. Simpli.fi's new product Geo-Conversion Lift takes on the problem of showing how geotargeted mobile…
In this edition of BIA/Kelsey's Vantage Points, we introduce one of our new industry executive advisers and welcome him to our team. Tony Marinaro has 30 years experience in market research and consumer insights and is the former head of research for LIN…
