by Suzanne Ackley | Jan 18, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
Small businesses are increasingly using Instagram for advertising and promotion, according to Wave 20 of our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses (Q3/2016). While a Facebook page is still the most popular social media used by small businesses,...
by BIA Advisory Group | Jan 11, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Broadcast, Mobile-Social
What’s the BIA/Kelsey analyst outlook for 2017? Like we do every year, predictions have been made and brought together across BIA/Kelsey analyst coverage areas. And the report publishes today. In addition to the sneak peek provided last week, four of the...
by BIA Advisory Group | Jan 10, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, Newspapers
AirBnB, the home and apartment on-demand rental service, said yesterday it will lead a $13 million investment in Resy, a New York-based restaurant reservation service founded by entrpreneurs Gary Vaynerchuk, Ben Leventhal and Michael Montero. All have deep online...
by BIA Advisory Group | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog, Local Advertising Forecast, Mobile-Social
How much will be spent on mobile advertising through 2021, and what will be the sources (and destinations) of those dollars? These are questions I’ve been tackling over the past few months. Among the $72 billion projected for U.S. mobile ads in 2021, search will...
by Suzanne Ackley | Dec 6, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Conferences, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
80% of small and medium businesses will use at least one social media channel for advertising and promotion in 2017. That was one of the takeaways from the opening session of BIA/Kelsey’s NEXT conference in Boston when analysts from BIA/Kelsey gave their...
by BIA Advisory Group | Nov 23, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Local Advertising Forecast, Mobile-Social
BIA/Kelsey is in the process of producing a white paper that drills down on the mobile portion* of its U.S. Local Advertising Forecast. The report will be published in January 2017, and we are currently in post-production stages. To provide a sneak peek, below is its...