Are you feeling confused? Do you keep hearing about how things are improving in the economy and yet you find yourself feeling more and more unsure about your personal situation? You are not alone. While over a third (35 percent)…
With the holiday shopping season starting earlier than ever, all eyes are on Retail stores and their outlook for ad spending. BIA has been tracking expectations in our U.S. Local Advertising Forecast and have issued our analysis in a two-part…
As part of welcome and burgeoning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, marketers and agencies are making commitments to invest more of their ad spending in minority owned media. The problem has been finding a definitive listing of these media. According…
Roger LanctotDirector Automotive Connected Mobility Strategy Analytics Strategy Analytics' Roger Lanctot is director of automotive connected mobility, and a self-described, "not a car guy." However, Lanctot is the go-to guy when you want to understand what is going on in…
BIA Advisory Services and Premion explore pandemic induced changes in the local ad market for streaming TV, as well as look ahead to trends to forecast 2021-2022 ad spending in the report, A Marketer's Guide: The New Rules Ahead for…
In a recent edition of BIA’s Vantage Points series, Emilee Bond, director of the media vertical at Revenue Analytics had a conversation with BIA’s managing director, Rick Ducey, about using data, analytics, AI and a software platform to automate the process of building…
During the webinar, Navigating the Local Ad Marketplace During the Pandemic, BIA's Thomas Buono (CEO and Founder) and Rick Ducey (Managing Director), along with C. Lee Smith, President/CEO of SalesFuel and Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chairman of C-Suite Network and Primetime Television…
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the local media market into a situation where normal rules don't apply, and the new playbook hasn't been written yet. Business leaders desperately seek insights and guidance about how to steward their brands through a…
With tomorrow's dawning, California will rumble as the epicenter of yet another seismic event. This time it'll be shifting tectonic plates in the data and marketing world that'll spin the dial on the Richter Scale. The California Consumer Protection Act…
In spite of the rise of marketing clouds, data science, and martech capable of matching individual consumers to specific data from disparate collections of data, we have an Addressability Problem. Let's view what this means with a timely use case.…
Inside the local TV broadcast industry there has been speculation, aspiration, excitement, and hard work bringing to market the new capabilities of Next Gen TV. Most broadcasters are at least optimistic if not fully bullish about new growth and competitive…
BIA's mid-year forecast predicts that the 8 digital local ad platforms we track will generate $59.5 billion of the total $148.8 billion we expect advertisers to spend targeting local audiences. That is 40 percent of the total local ad spending.…
Podcast's growth continues to show a bright opportunity for local radio in the future. IAB and PwC estimate that $678.7 million will be spent on advertising on podcasts in 2019 growing to $1B by 2021. BIA's updated U.S. Local Advertising…
BIA and the Secret Society are collaborating on how attribution can help local TV drive grow revenue in the Automotive vertical and will kick this off in a July 18th webinar "TV Attribution: Opinions and Discoveries" to be held from…
Local ad revenues for 2019 are forecasted to have a strong year. Unemployment and general optimism for future growth has led to strong consumer spending, with national and local advertisers having greater incentive to increase their spending as well. Local…
We kicked off this week with a webinar covering advertising trends of local businesses along with a great presentation on how businesses need to adjust their SEO and content for voice search. Local businesses are using multiple channels to keep up with…
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…
In this third part of our series examining how to build a grounded revenue budget for 2019, we’d like to offer our top three recommendations for growth in 2019. Recommendation One: Implement verticals-based revenue budgeting for 2019. It is not…
It’s budgeting season and many of our clients have expressed their concern about next year and beyond. Both certain and uncertain dynamics are at play involving recurrent influences (i.e., politics, Olympic games) and the continuous changes (i.e., digital, consumer content…
While local TV groups and MVPDs strive to achieve significant revenue growth with their traditional advertising products, progress can be hampered by the increased spend shifting to digital ad platforms in local markets. BIA forecasts that digital media will increase from…
