by Celine Matthiessen | Mar 16, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
Channel overload, training and list management are among the top local marketing challenges for franchisees according to the results of our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses. Franchisees are a key segment of our survey because they are advanced...
by BIA Advisory Group | Mar 14, 2017 | BIA, Blog
Yext, the “knowledge engine” of business listings, has filed to offer stock to the public after 11 years of challenging growth. Between 2015 and 2016, Yext saw net revenues rise 49.5 percent to $89.7 million while net losses increased by 53.1 percent. Yext...
by Suzanne Ackley | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog, Conferences
Local market advertising* in the state of Texas will reach $13 billion this year across 19 television markets, according to the Media Ad View forecast published recently by BIA/Kelsey. Not surprisingly, the Dallas-Ft. Worth market tops the list with a whopping $3.9...
by BIA Advisory Group | Mar 9, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Conferences, Local Advertising Forecast, Mobile-Social
What does the path to $72 billion in mobile ad revenues look like? That’s the projection for 2021 U.S. mobile ad revenues. But more interesting is the segmentation and evolution of mobile ad formats that comprise that total. Following a white paper, I addressed...
by Patrick Buono | Mar 9, 2017 | Press Releases
LOCAL IMPACT Dallas on April 5 will Explore Advertising Spending, Media Trends, Digital Competition, and Local Marketing Technology CHANTILLY, Va. (March 9, 2017) – Local market advertising in the state of Texas will reach $13 billion this year across 19 markets,...
by Celine Matthiessen | Mar 8, 2017 | BIA, Blog
GotU, recently on stage at our ENGAGE conference talking about the shift from traditional digital models to results-oriented models, has just won a Gold Stevie® Award. The win recognized their customer-centric local Facebook advertising technology in the New Marketing...
by Celine Matthiessen | Mar 8, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
Small businesses are moving beyond having a presence on social media, especially on Facebook. For three years in a row Facebook pages have surpassed websites as the most popular used ad channel for small businesses. SMBs are not just invested in a presence on...
by BIA Advisory Group | Mar 3, 2017 | BIA, Blog
Foursquare unlocks its “Pilgrim” function, Uber has a bad month, and YouTube fires the latest shot at cable television. These were topics on this week’s BIA/Kelsey LIVE. Produced by Mitch Ratcliffe and featuring a rotating cast of guests, we’ll...
by Suzanne Ackley | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog, Mobile-Social, SMBs
45.5% of small businesses use at least one type of mobile advertising, according to Wave 20 of our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses (Q3/2016). Among the mobile advertising channels, text messaging was the most popular with small businesses and...
by Suzanne Ackley | Feb 27, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
The higher spending SMBs, which we call Plus Spenders*, use an average of 20.8 different media channels for advertising and promotion, according to Wave 20 (Q3/2016) of our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small and medium businesses. But while the number of...
