by Suzanne Ackley | Aug 20, 2019 | BIA, BIA ADVantage, Blog, Broadcast, Political Advertising, Radio
Over-the-air radio will earn 5% of all political dollars in local BIA Advisory Service estimates $6.55 billion will be spent on local political advertising in 2020, with radio getting $312 million of local political advertising spend in 2020.The markets getting the...
by Celine Matthiessen | Jul 23, 2019 | BIA, Blog, Local Advertising Forecast
Podcast’s growth continues to show a bright opportunity for local radio in the future. IAB and PwC estimate that $678.7 million will be spent on advertising on podcasts in 2019 growing to $1B by 2021. BIA’s updated U.S. Local Advertising Forecast projects...
by Suzanne Ackley | Jan 30, 2019 | BIA, Blog, Broadcast, Sales Best Practices, SAM, SMBs
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 with...
by Suzanne Ackley | Dec 19, 2018 | BIA, Blog, Broadcast, Radio, SAM, SMBs
More than half of radio advertisers (53.4%) are planning to increase their advertising spend in 2019, compared to only 35% of the businesses in our annual SAM™ survey. Radio advertisers use an average of 13 different media channels for advertising. What do they...
by Rick Ducey | Dec 10, 2018 | BIA, Blog
Local radio stations do not have the authorization to provide zoned coverage areas inside their overall FCC authorized signal contours. What would happen if this changed? The results could be quite remarkable, as shown by a recent study BIA performed for Geo Broadcast...
