by Suzanne Ackley | Jun 14, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs, Verticals
Entertainment small businesses lead the way in committing more ad dollars to their digital marketing, more than any other vertical, Small businesses in the entertainment* vertical are allocating nearly half of their advertising budget to digital advertising, according...
by Suzanne Ackley | May 31, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs, Verticals
Despite the strong growth of digital and mobile media advertising, small businesses in the Home and Trade vertical (construction/contracting, plumbers, HVAC, etc.) continue to prefer traditional media channels for advertising and promotion, according to data from...
by BIA Advisory Group | May 25, 2017 | BIA, Blog
The art of tracking, analyzing and optimizing inbound phone leads — also known as call commerce — has taken on new life with advancements in AI. The process of extracting meaning and insights from spoken dialogues is getting smarter by the day. This was...
by Suzanne Ackley | May 24, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
One thing has been obvious across the past several waves of BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses — the bigger the small business the more likely they are to choose to have assistance with their digital advertising (the “Do...
by Rick Ducey | May 18, 2017 | BIA, Blog
In a joint project BIA/Kelsey just completed with MediaMax resulting in the ebook, The Win of Going Local and a forthcoming webinar on the same topic, we took a hard look at BIA/Kelsey’s forecast for ad spend targeting local audiences through 2021. In the chart...
by Rick Ducey | May 18, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Conferences, Mobile-Social
The ideal for marketers is to not just better understand their customer segments in terms of attributes, behaviors, and contextual data. That is half the problem, getting a deep understanding of who interacts (or should) with your brand and why. The second half of the...
