Smack dab in the middle of today's social media forum at DMS ’11 was a session to highlight agencies that specialize in social media marketing. David Lifson, CEO of Postling, and Mike Nabasny, regional sales manager of Wildfire, spent the…
BIA/Kelsey analyst Charles Laughlin wrote a conference blog post in less than 10 minutes today at the company's DMS show. The post, which can be found here, broke the previous analyst record of 11.5 minutes set at the company's Deals…
Matt Booth kicked off a session at DMS ’11 with some BIA/Kelsey data on SMBs' perception of value for the many things offered to them in search advertising services. Above SEO assistance, keyword selection, site traffic reports and the usual…
Today at BIA/Kelsey's DMS conference, the evolving local merchant was dissected by MerchantCircle founder Ben Smith, Halogen Media Group Chairman Peter Horan and Reply.com CEO Payam Zamani. SMB savvy is accelerating as a function of the business owners' role as…
Google Wallet is out with its first video ad, starring none other than George Costanza. For those familar with the famous exploding wallet bit ("The Reverse Peephole" episode), this is perfect fodder for a Google Wallet spoof. This also isn't…
Around here, we're prepping presentations, briefing speakers and packing boxes. Tuesday begins DMS 2011, and it's looking good. We're not doing a mobile SuperForum, as we usually do at our big shows -- that format will be reserved for great…
This is the first time since it started that I wasn't able to attend TechCrunch's Disrupt conference (formerly TC50). But I've been able to watch some of it, as TechCrunch intelligently offers a live stream of all the sessions, powered…
EMarketer is out with a new report that claims 1 in 10 mobile users are redeeming coupons. That's not a lot but for all the reasons we explored in our recent mobile deals report, it's projected to grow quickly. EMarketer…
Interviewed by Marc Benioff at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference that took over San Francisco last week, Google Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt espoused our new favorite topic, SoLoMo. "The next generation of leaders and start-ups to emerge will involve mobile,…
In the run-up to any given BIA/Kelsey conference, I'm continually asked about the makeup of our typical audience. This is a good question from both attendees and speakers trying to devise the proper tone for their presentations or prepared panel…
Flurry is out today with one of its always-useful mobile app reports. This one is bound to be misread though (it already has), as saying that mobile display ad revenues will surpass their desktop equivalent by year-end. First, the online…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts we've written over the past week from the wide world of mobile. -- Placing Facebook's New Location Plans -- Friday Cool Item of the Day: iPhone…
Rumors continue to swirl about the iPhone 5's fall launch, and fake device spottings keep coming out of the woodwork. Kind of in the same vein is a concept video released by 3D animation shop Aatma Studios, which explicitly states…
Following last week's post about mobile barcode factoids, I took a broader look in this month's Search Engine Watch column. It also brings in other takeaways from last week's Search Engine Strategies conference. An excerpt is below and you can read the…
For the few of you who still think Twitter is a fad, the term tweet was just minted with most recent class of inductees to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Other words that made the cut include "social media" and "crowdsourcing" (those weren't…
Welcome to the first of our new (still experimental) video series where BIA/Kelsey analysts discuss news and events from the worlds we cover. The item of the day is of course Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO of Apple. Watch the…
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let…
After failing to capture the volume of check-ins that that it wanted, Facebook is revamping Places one year after its launch. Instead of being primarily a mobile tool for checking in (a la Foursquare), it is now a more broadly…
Gearing up for a session on mobile tools for SMBs at next month's DMS show, I listened to a webinar today put on by Duda Mobile and AT&T. As the session will focus on "onboarding" SMBs to a mobile presence, Duda builds…
After our initial coverage (and the rest of the world's) of Google's surprise bid to acquire Motorola's Mobility Group, we took a deeper look. Below is an excerpt and you can read the rest here. We're about a week into the…
