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…
In the latest episode of BIA’s Leading Local Insights podcast, Before and After COVID - A Look at Legal Services Local Ad Spending, BIA's Senior Research Analyst Suzanne Ackley examines the ad spend and media selections of businesses in the legal services…
TVB's Brad Seitter, EVP Business Development moderated a members-only session exploring how local TV sellers can drive growth opportunities by developing strategies from TVB's proprietary Purchase Funnel Study and BIA Advisory Services forecasts. BIA's ADVantage local market intelligence service forecasts…
BIA evaluated three datacasting revenue scenarios: High, Middle and Low cases utilizing 7 Mbps, 5 Mbps, or 3 Mbps of ATSC 3.0 data capacity. BIA's non-core datacasting revenue forecast estimates the Middle Case scenario will produce revenue rising to $10.7B…
Bob Branson joined the Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council (MMTC) as president and CEO in June 2021 and recently sat down with BIA for an episode of our Leading Local Insights podcast series. Branson brings to MMTC his deep…
In the latest episode of BIA’s Leading Local Insights Podcast, Five Keys to Success in 2022: Follow the Money, BIA’s CEO and Founder, Tom Buono, talks about five keys to build a successful 2022: tapping into a robust political year,…
BIA is forecasting that ad spend on local television will be $21 billion in 2022, with $19.3 billion going towards over-the-air television ads and $1.7 billion going to digital television ads. This is an increase of 26.5% from 2021 local…
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 the latest episode of BIA’s podcast, Leading Local Insights, Ad Spend Estimates and Trends for the Automotive Vertical (Part 1), BIA industry analyst Suzanne Ackley examines the ad spend and media selections of businesses in the automotive vertical. For 2021,…
In the latest episode of BIA's podcast, Leading Local Insights, Ad Spend Estimates and Trends for the Healthcare Vertical, BIA industry analyst Suzanne Ackley examines the ad spend and media selections of businesses in the Healthcare vertical. For 2021, BIA…
TVB commissioned BIA Advisory Service to conduct the 2021 State of Women in Local Broadcast TV online survey as part of its NEXT Women initiative. A series of executive interviews were also conducted to dig deeper into topic areas. To…
In episode 3 of Leading Local Insights, Getting Your Share of the Ad Wallet, BIA's CEO and Founder, Tom Buono talks about a topic very important to him and the core of BIA's service to clients: the best way to…
The $15.7 billion BIA is estimating in ad spend for local television (broadcast and online), while down from 2020 levels of $16.8 billion, represents a strong recovery for the media when you remove the unprecedented amounts of political ad spend.…
In early December, BIA released its 2021-2025 local advertising spend forecast. The five-year forecast examines the ad spend by 12 vertical categories that consist of 95 sub-verticals across 16 media. Overall, BIA is forecasting that local ad spend will increase…
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…
2020 has seen an overall drop in ad spend for Legal Services advertising in 2020, but five of the 17 media channels in BIA's forecast (from August 2020) will actually see growth in ad spend in 2020. Looking ahead to…
In the last several weeks, we have had incredible marketplace discussions with business leaders who have described the pandemic alternately as an accelerator, a suppressor and some as both, depending on their perspective. Certainly, the pandemic has changed the way…
As we progress thru the pandemic, station sales have been weak, both in terms of the number and value. For example, 34 radio sold for $4 million in May. Station sales as of May 31, 2020 Transaction Values as of…
BIA has lowered its 2Q 2020 forecast for local media advertising. BIA is now forecasting that local TV ad spend in 2020 will be $18.5 billion, with $17 billion attributable to over-the-air revenue and $1.5 billion for digital revenue. BIA…
The NAB Show Express launched its virtual sessions last week, including one organized by BIA Advisory Services: Strategies and Case Studies in Advanced TV Ad Selling. It featured NBCU Owned Stations' Shawn Makhijani, head of strategy and business development for…