Kelsey Local Media Blog
Over the last few years, rapid growth and adoption of the mobile internet has led to drastic changes in to the landscape for paid search marketers. More and more consumers are using their mobile device or tablet to perform searches,…
The national component of local media spending is large and fast growing, with national brands and agencies pushing spend down into local markets through local media channels. This overarching trend is what drove BIA/Kelsey, a company known for its local…
Millennials sometimes get a bad rap for being the disinterested and out of touch generation. But BIA/Kelsey survey data actually pegs them as the most in-touch (literally). When it comes to smartphone, tablet, and social networking they blow their gen-x…
xAd is on a roll. The company just announced a channel sales deal with Cox Digital Solutions. This essentially puts xAd's location based mobile ads into the bundle that Cox sells to local advertisers. It now becomes the exclusive reseller…
Traditionally, SMBs have invested the majority of their time, energy and budget in acquiring new customers. However, a recently-released report from BIA/Kelsey and Manta, based on findings from nearly 1,000 members of Manta's online directory community, indicates a clear shift…
Today's BIA/Kelsey Analyst Roundtable had a very futuristic theme to it. We began the conversation with Facebook's announcement of their acquisition of virtual reality company Oculus VR earlier last week. And XappMedia has announced a partnership this week with NPR…
Today's BIA/Kelsey Analyst Roundtable had a very futuristic theme to it. We began the conversation with Facebook's announcement of their acquisition of virtual reality company Oculus VR earlier last week. And XappMedia has announced a partnership this week with NPR…
ReachLocal today announced the appointment of longtime B2B and information services leader Sharon Rowlands as CEO, replacing interim CEO David Carlick, who remains chairman; and founding CEO Zorik Gordon, who left in December 2013 and is pursuing his vision for…
ReachLocal today announced the appointment of longtime B2B and information services leader Sharon Rowlands as CEO, replacing interim CEO David Carlick, who remains chairman; and founding CEO Zorik Gordon, who left in December 2013 and is pursuing his vision for…
BIA/Kelsey's crack team of industry analysts gathered on a Google Hangout today to offer their take on the events of the day. The question on the table today was, "What new business or product ideas have you seen in recent…
Are you making marketing decisions based solely on clicks and web conversions? Marketers who aren't including phone call conversions may be missing key data points that can help optimize search campaigns, more accurately measure ROI and justify budgets. For example,…
I attended an intriguing breakout session -- "Spreading the Word: Advanced Strategies for Content Distribution" -- at the ad:tech conference today in San Francisco's glistening Moscone Center. The session featured a presentation by Alex from Digitas, who walked the audience through…
Burger King, Starbucks and Paypal all announcing different mobile payment upgrades or features that let you order in advance and skip the line, key advancements in mobile payments that we predicted in our mobile payments insight paper. And Google has…
National brands, franchises and multi-location outlets often lose business by only providing standard name/address/phone number information, instead of focusing more on discovery search, says Local Market Launch CMO Gideon Rubin. "Name, address, phone information only represents 15 percent of searches.…
National brands, franchises and multi-location outlets often lose business by only providing standard name/address/phone number information, instead of focusing more on discovery search, says Local Market Launch CMO Gideon Rubin. "Name, address, phone information only represents 15 percent of searches.…
Consumers today want to feel like they are recognized and known personally by the stores they shop at and by the brands they buy. For national brands, targeting consumers and reaching that personal level can be a challenge. Many brands,…
Coming on the heels of its big content deal with Yahoo, Yelp has inked a strategic agreement with directories giant YP to use the vast YP sales force to sell its inventory. The deal expands Yelp's sales reach while at…
On Tuesday, March 25, BIA/Kelsey and Surefire Social are teaming up to host a live webcast on the booming opportunity, but inherent challenges, in national-local digital marketing for brands and multi-location enterprises. BIA/Kelsey forecasts locally-targeted advertising and promotions spend by…
Classified Ventures has put cars.com on the block, with a wide array of potential suitors getting ready to pony up big bucks for the No. 2 auto vertical property. And Yahoo is upping its game in search through its content…
On Thursday, we'll host a live webcast with call monetization provider Ifbyphone. The topic: BIA/Kelsey projects mobile calls to local businesses will reach 65 billion annually by 2016. That's going to be a lot of calls to manage, track, route,…
