Television viewers in Maine and Nevada should be prepared to be bombarded with political advertising, according to data from BIA Advisory Services. BIA estimates that almost half (47%) of $6.55 billion in political advertising dollars in 2020 will go to…
Over-the-air TV will earn 47% of political ad spend in local markets. BIA Advisory Service estimates $6.55 billion will be spent on local political advertising in 2020, with over-the-air TV receiving the largest share of $3.08 billion - 47% of…
An early start to the 2020 election, a strong economy, and most notably, increases in mobile and mobile-social advertising is driving the $148.8 billion estimate for local ad spend. BIA is raising its original estimate put out earlier this year…
BIA's Managing Director, Rick Ducey briefed the attendees at Media Finance Focus 2019 event on the current and future of Spot TV Sales Automation, here are some of the key highlights from his presentation. The local TV industry’s efforts to automate…
Yes, they do, according to BIA's SAM™ Survey of Advertising and Marketing. In two reports released recently by BIA, Advertising and Marketing Behaviors of 1-19 Employee Businesses and 20-99 Employee Businesses, those businesses report receiving a return on investment of…
A myriad of business verticals will pour $18.6 billion dollars into local TV advertising in 2019. SAM ™, BIA’s Survey of Advertising and Marketing, reveals key verticals like Auto, General Services and Retail spend the most on local TV; however,…
Local businesses continue to see the benefits of working with an ad agency for their local advertising needs, with most being very satisfied with their chosen agency. The key determinant for a business to work with an agency is not…
In this BIA Strategic Brief, the first of many we'll be doing monthly this year, I'd like to share some perspective into two ad platforms – the rising tiger of digital and the cash cow of direct mail (borrowing these…
Local advertisers from the small local cleaners to franchisees all have a similar challenge - getting their message in front of customers on many screens and places. On average, a local business uses at least 9 different ad channels. That means working…
BIA's 2019 local advertising forecast shows over-the-air (OTA) television advertising as the fourth largest of all media in advertising dollars at over $17 billion in local in 2019. Cable TV is forecast at $5.8 billion in 2019. While digital/online television advertising accounts for…
NOTE: This post was revised 9/21/18 to correct an editing error. As BIA works with clients to strategize revenue growth prospects for local TV, we're considering the Total Addressable Markets (TAM) for broadcast television versus digital platforms. It's a tale of two cities.…
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…
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have out-sized marketing power with the range of integrated advertising technology (adtech) and marketing technology (martech) platforms that are affordable for businesses with less than 100 employees. For any business to benefit from data-driven media campaigns,…
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…
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…
Free and low-cost digital and social media channels are most popular in use among retail small businesses, but they give higher return on investment (ROI) marks to traditional media channels such as TV and cable, according to data from Wave 21…
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…
