The ATSC 3.0 roll-out continues even in the face of the Great Pandemic, albeit at modified pace. As multiple ATSC 3.0 stations launch in a market, attention inevitably turns to, "now what?" The TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) virtual conference features…
As local economies start to move into their phased re-openings, consumers are increasing their rate of spending intentions for businesses in different verticals. BIA will analyze the opportunities for radio sellers looking for effective selling strategies as we evolve through…
Media sellers are increasingly focusing their revenue growth initiatives for local businesses on a mix of digital marketing solutions. While traditional media spend will grow, more and faster growth is occurring in digital. To explore the dynamics of this growth…
With COVID-19 and public health quarantines, live sports events have been canceled, paused or rescheduled, creating a huge void for millions of sports fans. Marketers and agencies targeting the coveted sports programming audience segments are working hard with publishers to…
How Can Local Businesses Be Found in Voice Search? 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 sectors. The…
BIA's complimentary Geotargeted Ad Fraud webinar, Wed March 21st from 2pm-3pm EST, tackles both a well-recognized and growing problem in digital media. In this webinar, we’ll dissect what’s going on in geotargeted ad fraud and explore the different kinds of fraud…
BIA/Kelsey's Advanced TV webinar series continues with our assessment of developments in 2017 and a look ahead at expectations for 2018. We'll sort out players, roles strategies and our panel will bring their own points of view to the discussion.…
MediaMax Network (MMN) and BIA/Kelsey collaborated to develop an eBook entitled. The Win of Going Local, which looks at how national brands can use localized media campaigns to drive higher growth. In the 15 page ebook, read about how "Brand marketers are…
At BIA/Kelsey's NEXT conference last month in Boston, one of the more popular sessions featured Nish Parek from IBM Watson and Jodie Sassse from Equals 3 showing how artificial intelligence and cognitive computing can be applied to tough marketing problems.…
Proposed Tax Code Changes Could Cost Family-Owned Businesses Dearly By Lauren Butler On August 2, the IRS issued proposed regulations regarding Section 2704 of the Internal Revenue Code. This could reduce or disallow the discounts on non-controlling interests in many…
Small and large business are learning an important lession: Growing sales typically evolve out of deep audience engagement. Finding more audiences similar to the customers who already convert is easier than converting new disengaged audiences. The strategy, known as "audience…
There is a tremendous opportunity for marketing automation sellers to engage SMBs with search engine optimization (SEO) combined with social marketing solutions. SEM/SEO services topped the list of future marketing priorities for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)* that spend on average of $75,000…
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,…
Co-op advertising programs are popular with SMBs, particularly larger SMBs, according to our Local Commerce Monitor , Wave 19 (Q3/2015). Our Plus Spenders are SMBs that spend more than $25K annually on advertising and more than a third (39.3%) of this…
Manta and BIA/Kelsey will join forces on a webinar next week (June 29 from 2 pm - 3 pm Eastern Time) that looks at the vexing problem of acquiring very small businesses at a customer acquisition cost that doesn't break…
"The challenge now facing media resellers is how to adapt and educate their sales teams, as well as update their value propositions to sell social media-based SMB lead generation products and solutions. This is a change in the reseller script…
No one goes into a sales transformation process thinking it will be easy. Yet nearly everyone underestimates just how hard it will be. Join BIA/Kelsey and BuzzBoard, along with special guests from the front lines of digital sales transformation for…
As SMBs increase digital marketing spend, agencies that target them with marketing automation can gain a competitive edge. This was the focus of a recent BIA/Kelsey webcast (and companion white paper) co-hosted by Vendasta. But more important than the "why?" is the "how?". Addressing…
As big data continues to collide with local marketing, small businesses are more empowered than ever to acquire and retain customers. It's the job -- and opportunity -- of local media companies and startups to bring them that capability. But…
Retail beacons have gotten lots of attention and excitement over the past 24 months -- most of it pre-mature. But it's a technology that is starting to gain realistic adoption, and holds lots of promise for the perennial local challenge…
