Kelsey Local Media Blog
Day 2 of Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media conference opened with BIA/Kelsey's VP and Chief Economist, Mark Fratrik, who shared some exciting pieces of information from BIA/Kelsey's Media Ad view. Media Ad View is BIA/Kelsey's research product that offers…
Networking is key at any conference and the opportunity to network with other women is considered to be of high importance to many of us females in the corporate world. BIA/Kelsey was sure to give its female conference attendees that…
Audrey Cooper is still new to her role as Managing Editor of SF Chronicle/SF Gate, but she's already bubbling with ideas and an enthusiastic vision for bridging content and advertising in a digital-first environment. In a fireside chat at…
Businesses need to focus on three key strategies for optimizing their mobile presence for making the most of the rapid growth in local commercially relevant search. The ability to match the intent indicated by keywords with user location is a…
Local is front and center in the next phase of ecommerce opening up, said eBAY VP of Marketplaces Jody Ford during a keynote address Dec. 10 at Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media in San Francisco. Ford said the past…
Today at BIA/Kelsey's Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media conference, leaders of local digital agencies shared some critical success factors in the challenging business of offering agency services to local business -- that combination of brand agnostic digital marketing…
GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving said during his opening keynote at Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media in San Francisco that the world's leading domain registrar with 12 million, mostly SMB customers is moving beyond the "polarizing tactics" it has…
Businesses today have access to far more information on the products and services they buy, a long-term trend that is having a profound impact on local sales, making its success much more dependent on science than art. Selling increasingly is…
While the volume of deals (acquisitions and capital raises) in the local media space hasn't really grown much this year, the volume of these deals exploded, according to BIA/Kelsey's deal tracking effort called Local Media Investment Watch. Deal value…
A few years ago, Merchant Circle pushed the boundaries of SMB marketing,-- getting claimed profiles from over one million SMBs with just minimal staff but the latest in social marketing (and telemarketing) techniques. The site has continued to develop after…
Shopping through mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is re-shaping how purchases are made during one of the biggest consumer spending weekends of the year. According to the National Retail Federation, more than 141 million Americans shopped over the holiday…
http://youtu.be/eKEj5m8uRE0 We have taken a drawing of the many entrants for our Yelp headquarters "PreCon" tour at Leading in Local: Interactive Local Media on Dec. 10, and we have a lucky group of winners. The new Yelp building is the…
Recent reports of more online/digital companies using television as a key advertising vehicle has furthered buoyed the fortunes of this media. After a remarkable 2012 in political advertising sales, many local television stations this year felt in a comfortable position.…
Even newspaper advertisers, long seen as favoring traditional media, are increasingly shifting their ad spend to digital. More and more these SMBs are exploring the advertising opportunities digital media has to offer and with that spending is shifting in…
In a digital world that has us all swimming in readily accessible data, one might be tempted to torture the familiar line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner into, "Data, data everywhere. Nor any drop of insight to drink."…
A key transitional milestone for the U.S. Yellow Pages industry -- becoming a majority digital business -- is about two years away, according to an updated BIA/Kelsey forecast released today. The forecast, which builds on the 2012-17 forecast released in…
Today, BIA/Kelsey released its latest U.S. Local Media Forecast, with local advertising revenues growing from nearly $133 billion in 2012 to nearly $152 billion by 2017 , driven by a $21.4 billion surge in digital/online advertising over the same period (from $23.1 billion to…
vSplash's Board Advisor and former BIA/Kelsey executive Neal Polachek briefed BIA/Kelsey on some recent milestones achieved by vSplash with their sales engagement tool - BuzzBoard. Launched by vSplash the BuzzBoard sales tool has gained significant market adoption since Charles…
Around here, we're gearing up for our Leading in Local conference in San Francisco next month. It will feature the standard fare of heavy hitters from the likes of Google, Facebook, Airbnb, GoDaddy, etc.. We'll even have California Lt. Governor…
U.S. SMBs are increasingly using social media, such as Twitter, to advertise and promote their business to customers and to connect with them. According to BIA/Kelsey's Local Commerce Monitor™, SMB usage of Twitter for advertising and promotion has been steadily…
