by Suzanne Ackley | Mar 4, 2020 | BIA, BIA ADVantage, Blog, Broadcast, Local Advertising Forecast, Verticals
Healthcare businesses are bucking the trend of media spend shifting to digital. Healthcare businesses are sticking with traditional media through 2024. Spend on digital is growing, but at a slower rate than other verticals. “The Healthcare vertical invests and...
by Rick Ducey | Jan 21, 2020 | BIA, BIA ADVantage, Blog, Broadcast, CTV/OTT
NextGen TV, nee ATSC 3.0, may be emerging from an identity crisis. What is it and how is it different from everything else in TV land? Two events kicking off the New Year created a bit more clarity. We’re still in the you say “toe may toe” and I say...
by Celine Matthiessen | Dec 10, 2019 | BIA, BIA ADVantage, Blog, Broadcast, Local Advertising Forecast, Mobile-Social, Verticals
Financial businesses are a huge segment of local targeted ad spend and include businesses like auto insurance, financial planners, credit unions and mortgage brokers. Businesses in financial are heavily invested in advertising that targets their potential customers....
by Suzanne Ackley | Nov 6, 2019 | BIA, BIA ADVantage, Blog, Broadcast, CTV/OTT, Local Advertising Forecast, Political Advertising
For 2020 political and over-the-top (OTT) advertising, and growth in mobile and social ads, will be key ingredients for local media’s 5.5% growth from 2019. BIA estimates total local advertising revenue in the U.S. will reach $161.1 billion in 2020, up from...
by Suzanne Ackley | Aug 20, 2019 | BIA, BIA ADVantage, Blog, Broadcast, Political Advertising, Radio
Over-the-air radio will earn 5% of all political dollars in local BIA Advisory Service estimates $6.55 billion will be spent on local political advertising in 2020, with radio getting $312 million of local political advertising spend in 2020.The markets getting the...
by Rick Ducey | Aug 8, 2019 | BIA, BIA ADVantage, Blog
BIA’s mid-year forecast predicts that the 8 digital local ad platforms we track will generate $59.5 billion of the total $148.8 billion we expect advertisers to spend targeting local audiences. That is 40 percent of the total local ad spending. But BIA sees...
