BIA Advisory Service's released our latest report in the advanced TV series, Advanced TV and Innovation in Local Markets. To dig into the current marketplace trends and get informed views about what the leading indicators are and what we should expect to see, we've…
Los Angeles may be the second largest market in terms of population, but BIA's advertising forecast puts it firmly in 1st place in terms of local advertising spend -with BIA projecting $9.1 Billion in 2018. That's almost half of the $18.8 Billion…
Advertisers expect media sellers to have knowledge of their market, business and what works for advertising. In fact, our small business survey (Local Commerce Monitor) respondents rank in-depth product intelligence and the value of the product vs. others as top wants from…
In this BIA Vantage Points invited post, Premium Media 360, a TV data automation firm that synchronizes data among media and agency partners, argues that having data and automating TV advertising platforms are critical success factors. However, there remains the…
At NAB Headquarters in DC today, BIA is welcoming traditional and digital media executives to discuss the robust DC/VA/MD ad market at our first regional event of this year, LOCAL IMPACT DC. We are also officially announcing our name change.…
BIA Advisory Services reported that video advertising in local will continue to outpace local advertising in growth for the next five years. Mobile local video is growing at 14.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) as increased consumer mobile usage is…
Start-up small businesses reported that as they are getting established in their local markets they use a lot of free and low cost media. No surprise that they are focused on visibility and are heavy users of giveaways and community…
61.4% of small businesses that advertise on TV or cable had a video produced in the last 12 months, according to data from BIA’s Local Commerce Monitor™ (LCM) survey, which is more than double the average from the full sample (26.3%). Where are they…
In terms of radio and television station transactions, the past year was strong but not overwhelming. As shown in the year end totals, BIA/Kelsey reports that the total number of television stations sold in 2017 were 107 for a total…
Our Local Advertising Forecast projection for 2018 shows the largest annual ad increase in the past five years. While local advertising marketplace revenue has been growing steadily, total local advertising revenue in the U.S. will reach $151.2 billion in 2018,…
Small business that advertise on TV/cable are unique in some ways from other small businesses. This year especially, they are more optimistic about the future and plan on spending more on advertising in 2018. Other unique qualities include their size.…
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 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…
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…
TV broadcasters' paths to growth are gated by the ability to develop trusted and accurate measurement systems that clearly establish the size and attributes of the audiences delivered across linear and digital platforms. Based on BIA/Kelsey's data partnerships with comScore…
At next month's BIA/Kelsey LOCAL IMPACT: New York event we'll be featuring a "share of wallet" session led by BIA/Kelsey's Mark Fratrik joined by TVB's Steve Sturm and comScore's Steve Walsh to dissect our recently released ad forecast. We'll highlight the $13.7 billion…
BIA/Kelsey's announced at Vidweek's Programmatic Summit and in its new insight report, The Rise of Advanced TV Platforms, that its updated (June 2017) local video forecast calls for linear and digital video platforms to grow by $5.4 billion from $31.9 billion in 2017…
Traditional media platforms will account for nearly 70% of the $18.5 billion local advertising spent in California's 12 television markets this year. By 2021, however, that percentage will have decreased to just slightly over 59%, as online/digital and mobile revenue grows. Local…
Local advertising in California will reach $18.5 billion in 2017 across 12 geographic markets (including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento), according to BIA/Kelsey’s local market advertising forecast. Businesses in retail, automotive and general services (which includes a range of…
The social media advertising industry targeting local audiences in the U.S. will more than double to $31.5 billion by 2021, up from $14.9 billion in 2016. As social platforms like Facebook have made direct monetization of their platforms a reality,…
