by BIA Advisory Group | Apr 15, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Conferences
Abid Chaudhry and I discuss the fall of Shuddle, the Bay Area-based “Uber for kids” startup that closed its doors today after raising $12.2 million. What does this suggest for high-value vertical on-demand services? Can they differentiate enough to...
by Suzanne Ackley | Apr 14, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Broadcast, Mobile-Social, Radio
In Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, digital* media outperformed over-the-air broadcast** in generating revenue in 2015, according to BIA/Kelsey’s new Local Competition Report for the Philadelphia television market (see chart above). Broadcast, which combines...
by BIA Advisory Group | Apr 13, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Conferences
What are best practices in today’s Local Commerce Universe? What are lessons in helping local businesses acquire and retain customers, especially in today’s evolving multi-screen world? We want to hear from you. During next month’s BIA/Kelsey ENGAGE,...
by Suzanne Ackley | Apr 13, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
In BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor survey of small and medium businesses, we divided SMBS into three groups: 1 employee (very small businesses), 2 to 9 employees (small businesses) and 10 to 99 employees (medium businesses). When comparing the SMBs in these three...
by BIA Advisory Group | Apr 13, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Conferences
Innovation, execution and re-invention are some of the common themes among the headline speakers at BIA/Kelsey’s upcoming ENGAGE conference in Austin, Texas. ENGAGE runs from May 16-18 at the Austin Hilton. Opening headliner (May 17) Steven Johnson is a leading...
by BIA Advisory Group | Apr 12, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social
The universe is expanding — the Local Commerce Universe (LCU) that is. Comprised of companies that derive revenue from local commerce and advertising, it will reach $440 billion by 2021, up from $285 billion today. Digital media & advertising has the largest...
