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…
Over the past few weeks, we've been writing and recording analyst roundtables about a potential new area of local media and advertising: Variable product pricing. Like airline pricing, but on steroids, the idea is that the age of big data and…
For the last month or so, I've been playing with the developer build of Wanderful Media's Find & Save iPhone app. Today the app launched, just in time for the barrage of shopping holidays that the online and retail worlds…
As we keep saying, the age of big data is colliding with the age of mobile. This is playing out in lots of ways, most notably mobile and location signals used to better target mobile ads. But it’s not just targeting as in where the ad shows up… but also what it contains.
xAd has been pushing this idea for a while and it’s now out with its latest quarterly Mobile Location Insights report. The data xAd utilizes in particular is situational (smartfences) and behavioral (user data, brand affinity, etc). These are showing lots of growth on its network.
As its been doing for each quarterly report, xAd reports that this location targeting has real performance benefits when compared with the rest of the mobile ad industry (where location targeting doesn’t index as high). This goes for clicks and secondary actions like calls.
Going one level deeper, xAd reports that additional use of situational and behavioral user profiling data creates an even greater performance delta over location targeting alone. This happens to the tune of 10 percent greater click through rate throughout xAd’s network.
After a short hiatus, our analyst roundtable series is back. Today we discussed Twitter's IPO, ongoing valuation and the tone it has set for going public in today's tech marketplace. Lots of buzz around Snapchat, NextDoor and others have followed…
Today, BIA/Kelsey released its U.S. Local Media Forecast (2012-2017), showing local ad revenues of $133B (2012) growing to $152B (2017). This includes advertising targeted to geographically specific audiences, such as Newspapers, Radio, TV, Interactive, etc.. One important slice of this…
During my travels over the past week (AdTech NY and Qualcomm's LTE Direct Summit) the same idea came up a few times which started to make me think. Could all of the signals emanating from mobile device (see "big data meets…
Online Property Penetration BIA/Kelsey data shows small-businesses are fully embracing Facebook as a media channel. Facebook executives made it clear on the company's recent earnings call that they see SMBs ultimately driving big revenues for the social media giant. BIA/Kelsey's…
As the 2013 holiday shopping season gets underway, BIA/Kelsey's Consumer Commerce Monitor (CCM) survey offers insights into how local shoppers in the U.S. are likely to find, engage and transact with local-serving businesses. Showcasing insights from the survey, our webinar…
Whether U.S. citizens actually have any type of privacy anymore seems to be a growing topic of discussion among Americans. Concerns range from the government spying on phone conversations, to online ads that are just a little TOO applicable, to…
In light of Twitter's upcoming IPO, slated for Thursday, BIA/Kelsey has developed its own projections of the social network's future financial performance to arrive at what we believe is a reasonable stock price and achievable fair market valuation. We've also…
Earlier this week, xAd announced a new partnership with out of home adverting company Posterscope. xAd will track and target people who have seen billboards with repeat messaging and exposure. This interestingly makes it a sort of re-targeting for the…
In a deal designed to fuel innovation at First Data, the payments powerhouse has acquired mobile marketing and loyalty start-up Perka for an undisclosed amount. First Data plans to let Perka continue to operate autonomously and service as an "agile…
SMBs that utilize mobile advertising distinguish themselves by more than being trendsetters. They are spending more advertising dollars, tend to be early adopters in their use of digital compared to their counterparts and are savvier in how they leverage data…
Last week we held a webcast on call monetization and analytics sponsored by LogMyCalls. The first half of the webcast featured BIA/Kelsey data and analysis of the market opportunity; the second half drilled down on what LogMyCalls specifically is doing…
As part of our ongoing video series, see our on-stage interview with Retailigence below. The company continues to innovate at the intersection of "big data" and Mobile/local. It's building the largest database of sku-level product information out there. This of…
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…
One of the underlying themes at BIA/Kelsey's recent SMB Digital Marketing conference was extending beyond marketing services for SMBs. This includes operational tools that address their pain points and "lock-in" deeper (read: higher retention) relationships. This is something we've covered several…
Marchex announced two new products today, meant to further clarify attribution for successful call-based ad campaigns. Known respectively as Call DNA and Dynamic Tracking, they both work towards clearer advertising ROI, and iterative campaign optimization. This basically comes down to…
