by Suzanne Ackley | Jul 25, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Local Advertising Forecast, SAM, SMBs
Co-op advertising programs are popular with SMBs, particularly larger SMBs, according to our Local Commerce Monitor , Wave 19 (Q3/2015). Our Plus Spenders are SMBs that spend more than $25K annually on advertising and more than a third (39.3%) of this group uses...
by BIA Advisory Group | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog, Conferences, Mobile-Social
The Brand-to-local playbook is constantly changing in a multi-screen and millennial-impacted world. This was one of the underlying themes at the recent BIA/Kelsey BRANDS. But making this perennial challenge more complex is the need to establish or track down brand...
by Suzanne Ackley | Mar 23, 2016 | BIA, Blog, SAM, SMBs
When it comes to choosing media for advertising or promotion, small businesses that use co-op advertising programs are like other SMBs in our Local Commerce Monitor survey — a Facebook page is the most used. As shown in the chart below, SMBs that use co-op...
by Suzanne Ackley | Mar 9, 2016 | BIA, Blog, Radio, SAM, SMBs
30.0% of SMBs that advertise on radio receive co-op advertising funds, according to data from Wave 19 of Local Commerce Monitor (LCM), our survey of small and medium businesses, compared to only 13.6% of overall SMBs in the survey. 31.3% of these radio SMBs receiving...