Looking ahead to 2024 and our expectations for the television industry, Tom Buono, founder and CEO of BIA, keynotes a business forecast session at the TVB Forward Conference taking place Thu, Sept. 21, 2023. In his presentation, Tom discusses the…
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…
Political advertising for the 2022 cycle has reached $6.15 billion, already eclipsing the 2020 cycle in Non-Presidential spending, and a 56.6% increase over the last mid-term elections in 2018 according to BIA partner, AdImpact. With less than 100 days from…
The value and impact of Over-the-Top (OTT) for audience reach extension are being much better recognized and quantified. BIA forecasts that advertising spending on OTT will reach $2.2B by 2023 and $3.4B by 2026. Simultaneously, there is significant growth in…
BIA's current U.S. Local Advertising Forecast indicates that local Over-the-Top (OTT) advertising will rise to $2.8B by 2024, making it one of the fastest growing local media channels. BIA's Nicole Ovadia, VP Forecasting and Analysis, and Rick Ducey, Managing Director,…
In light of the Media Rating Council recently defining Over-the-Top (OTT) to be Connected TV, I recently spoke with Brian Hunt, head of OTT/CTV advertising sales at Sinclair Broadcast Group. Brian runs Sinclair's CompulseOTT, an aggregated data-driven platform with a…
In the latest episode of BIA’s Leading Local Insights Podcast, Targeting Local Viewers in OTT, Rick Ducey, BIA’s Managing Director, talks with Brian Hunt, Head of Compulse OTT and Sinclair OTT/CTV. The podcast discussion centers on how to navigate the…
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…
BIA Advisory Services teamed with SalesFuel in our regular digital event series for a webinar analyzing where the OTT local ad market is trending in 2021. Premion's Peter Jones, Head of Local Sales joined BIA's managing director Rick Ducey and…
BIA is moderating two local media-oriented sessions at the virtual TV of Tomorrow (TVOT) show on Wednesday, April 28th. Panel 1: Cross-Platform Sales in Local Media examines how buyers and sellers are addressing the fragmentation of audiences across platforms and…
BIA will explore what's driving the pace of OTT and CTV in 2021 in the upcoming webinar, All Eyes on OTT - Breakout Media Category in 2021, on Thu, April 1 at 2pm eastern. The webinar will feature an impressive…
BIA Advisory Services enters the world of podcasting this week with the introduction of Leading Local Insights, centering on BIA’s current thinking and analysis of the local media marketplace. Each episode will feature a member from our analyst team delivering…
BIA Advisory Services estimates total local advertising revenue across all media in the U.S. will reach $137.5 billion in 2021, up 2.5 percent year-over-year from $134.1 billion in 2020. Even without the presence of significant political advertising, BIA expects this…
Multi-location brands including franchisees, regional businesses and channel partners have moved increasing amounts of their marketing strategies and media activations into digital to derive the benefits of audience targeting and ROI analytics these media platforms offer. The challenges brought on…
BIA convened an expert panel of OTT industry thought leaders who shared their insights, recommendations, frustrations and excitement about Connected TV. The session was moderated by Mitch Oscar, BIA advisor and Advanced TV Strategist for USIM. The webinar is available…
NAB Show New York brings together three top CFOs from local TV on a main stage panel to share their insights and learnings from a unique year (we hope). The BIA-moderated session, Local TV Industry CFOs Update meets on Thursday,…
BIA tracks the OTT space closely, including producing an OTT ad-spending forecast for every local TV market. BIA expects local OTT ad spending to reach a total of about $1 billion in 2020. In a new report out by TV[R]EV's…
BIA is hosting a webinar on July 29th to examine the state of addressability in the the Local and Network TV markets. Along with a panel of expert guest speakers, we'll examine how addressable TV has become a dynamic space…
TV[R]EV's latest report, Eyes on Local, digs into why local TV has growing value to both national and local buyers by exploring innovations in ad technology, data, and audience consumption patterns and impacts of the pandemic. The report provides insights…
Advertisers love television. However, it's experiencing tough love in the form of declining pay subscriptions, consumers spending more time with Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming platforms and services delivered over broadband Internet. Local TV groups still deliver reach, but many are adding…
