by Celine Matthiessen | Oct 18, 2018 | BIA, BIA ADVantage, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
All size businesses direct almost two-thirds of their marketing dollars into activating local media ad platforms and the remainder into promotions. For businesses with 500 or more employees, this spending averages $4.48 million for advertising and $2.18 million on...
by Suzanne Ackley | Jan 16, 2018 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
Small businesses are diverse and in our Local Commerce Monitor™ (LCM) survey of small businesses we look at segments like the smallest of small businesses in terms of their advertising buying power. The smallest of small businesses we call “Core SMBs,” as...
by Suzanne Ackley | Nov 2, 2017 | BIA, Blog, Mobile-Social, SAM, SMBs
Half of higher spending small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) plan to maintain their current ad spend in 2018, according to the new wave of BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor™ (LCM). Another 45% plan to increase their spend, while 4% plan to decrease spend....
by Suzanne Ackley | Jun 28, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
Small businesses in our Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of small businesses (Q3/2016) were split in their digital advertising implementation preferences. Of the small businesses in the full sample of the survey, 48.2% preferred a “Do It Myself” (DIY) model for...
by Suzanne Ackley | Jun 14, 2017 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs, Verticals
Entertainment small businesses lead the way in committing more ad dollars to their digital marketing, more than any other vertical, Small businesses in the entertainment* vertical are allocating nearly half of their advertising budget to digital advertising, according...
