The clock is ticking! We are just one month from Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media, which is Dec. 10-12 in San Francisco. The event has shaped up to be the most exciting local event in recent memory - a…
Over the past decade, one of the leading lights in local search and leveraging local content has been Matthew Berk: first as an analyst at Jupiter anticipating key trends, then with his startup , OpenList, which was purchased by Marchex,…
We're watching ReachLocal closely, and note some changes at the company. Reach has been pushing the envelope as it transitions from a company that is largely dependent on reselling search and display to one that has a deeper relationship with…
How can you constantly top yourself? It is a challenge that leaders have, in whatever endeavor they are pursuing: whether it is sports, literature, academia, or business. We are pretty sure this year's Interactive Local Media event - BIA/Kelsey's flagship…
With the majority of U.S. auto buyers now using online and mobile in their research, the auto sites are clarifying their individual roles in the auto ecosystem - and making adjustments where necessary. This week, a panel of car site…
Google's Payments division is seeking synergies across many of Google's business units - hence the recent insertion of several AdWords executives into the Payments leadership. Speaking at Money2020 in Las Vegas, Google Payment VP Ariel Bardin bluntly acknowledged that…
While industry hype would suggest that payments will be largely coming from the phone within a few years, a majority of Money 2020 attendees, in a survey, said it won't be happening until 2020 or later. The four question survey…
Card linked offers are increasingly being used by merchants and consumers alike. Indeed, a group of early adopters have already started using card linked offers on a weekly or monthly basis, with usage expected to be constant and universal within…
One of the most amazing cyber-stories is the redevelopment of the elite TED - Technology, Entertainment and Design -conferences into a multi channel, multi city and multi country branded phenomenon. Since 2009, there have been 7,552 TED events in 151…
The seven year old Newspaper Consortium with Yahoo is getting a new lease on life as "The Local Media Consortium," and is re-signing members to a new five year group deal that will seek out digital opportunities with Yahoo and additional…
Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media, BIA/Kelsey's flagship show, is now set for San Francisco Dec. 10-12 and we couldn't be more excited. This year's edition hosts a totally fresh, new slate of industry leaders. The show opens with BIA/Kelsey…
Merchants sometimes like to control their own promotions to their own list of customers, rather than waiting in line for Groupon or other deals publishers to do it for them. Yelp, for instance, is one company that has had success…
One way that big data is being applied at the local level is via Card Linked Offers that track consumer spending and target offers and promotions based on that behavior. Banks, credit card companies and payment processors have been especially…
Thanks very much to all the members of the BIA/Kelsey community who came to the Leading in Local: SMB Digital Marketing conference last week in Austin. We had quite a large crowd of about 500 people, and did some really…
CTOs are having the most interesting conversations at legacy media companies - or at least, that would be the conclusion of a stimulating dialog that took place last week at Leading in Local: SMB Digital Marketing between BIA/Kelsey's Charles Laughlin,…
One of the new local contenders is an old name: GoDaddy. The Phoenix-based company, which is anchored in registry services (and Super Bowl ads), has been working to leverage its SMB customer base with a series of moves, including the…
Amidst all the talk at SMB Digital about marketing solutions for SMBs, we also had a chance to hear from several leading edge SMBs themselves. Several Yelp customers agreed to talk at the conference on Day 1, where they were…
Top insights into franchise marketing were provided today at SMB Digital Marketing, courtesy of Hunter Rose, owner of three Ben & Jerry's Scoop Stores, and longtime local executive and consultant Robyn Rose. Hunter Rose, a former Gartner analyst, is also…
Transaction marketing leads to a new level of revenue and engagement, according to LevelUp CEO Seth Priebatsch, who keynoted today at Leading in Local: SMB Digital Marketing Priebatsch has based LevelUp's success on driving more loyalty transactions, using lower Interchange…
Let's just concede that Silicon Valley is the biggest hub for Web activity, and that it has some real advantages over other locales in terms of engineering and programming talent, fundraising and industry attention. But Silicon Valley's tech-centric view --which…
