local advertising

TV data company Alphonso today announced that CBS Television Stations has selected Alphonso Local to provide TV attribution for local advertisers in all 17 of its owned stations across the […]

For businesses with 500 or more employees, this spending averages $4.48 million for advertising and $2.18 million on promotions, according to a new survey from BIA Advisory Services.

The majority (74%) of local businesses are using digital and traditional media together. Of the remaining advertisers, 22% are purchasing only traditional media, while just 3% percent purchase only digital, and the outstanding 1% reports using some other method. Stations need to get into the marketing services business.

Pivotal Research Group estimates that traditional, linear local TV broadcast advertising — excluding political ad revenues — will sink 2.2% in 2017, to $15 billion. This will be followed by another 4% decline in 2018 to $14.4 billion; a 4.2% decline in 2019 to $13.8 billion; a 4.5% drop to $13.2 billion in 2020; and a 4.7% pullback to $12.6 billion in 2021.

Gordon Borrell, CEO of Borrell Associates, will discuss macro trends that will be affecting local advertisers’ 2017 media buying decisions during a distance learning seminar offered by MFM, the Media Financial […]

In a nutshell, small and medium-size businesses want to see well-educated sales reps that understand both the customer they are pitching and the variety of solutions they have to offer. SMBs are not looking for someone to sell against digital, or to try to convince them that one medium is better than another; they are looking for sound advice — a marketing expert they can trust.

Most traditional media will be dramatically transformed, much of it interactive. Think phones that communicate with beacons and allow advertisers to see our search history. Think in-car ads.

Ten years ago the iPhone didn’t exist, local advertisers didn’t know what a Facebook page was, and yellow pages were an essential part of any small business’s ad budget. So what changes will the next 10 years bring to local advertising? Here are five predictions based on conversations with analysts, buyers and others.

Panelists agreed that the proposed transmission standard holds the potential for producing new kinds of audience data that advertisers are looking for today, allowing stations to join the ad industry evolution toward “geo-targeted” data.

Local advertising will jump 16.4% to $132 billion in 2016 according to a new Local Advertising Insights report from Borrell Associates. Local and state elections, along with local businesses spending more on digital, will drive the uptick, and online will be the year’s winning medium with a 49.8% share and a 36.4% growth rate, while television accounts for 9.1% ($12 billion), growing 19.7%.

Much of that’s driven by digital, especially mobile, which small businesses are embracing. TV and especially radio are being squeezed by mobile’s ability to geo-target.

A Borrell Associates survey of small business owners released this morning finds that “advertising as we’ve come to know it is in decline.” The report, based on a survey of 7,228 small businesses, shows an acceleration in upward and downward trends for media buying, with more respondents planning to increase digital budgets than there were in 2011 and 2013 surveys, as well as more planning to abandon traditional media.

A Tuesday NAB panel explores the changing nature of how — and why — advertisers partner with local media, and the role traditional outlets play in driving consumers to the Web and, ultimately, business. One consensus: local media still has unmatched reach and clout.

In the incredibly competitive local advertising marketplaces throughout the U.S., national advertisers are playing a bigger role. National advertisers are increasing their spending in these local markets to target consumers in specific geographic areas. While they still spend on nationwide networks (e.g., NBC, ESPN), they are increasing their spending with local media companies such as local radio and television stations, and local online properties.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune, on the strength of its product portfolio, has found success with digital sales, which now generates about 20% of the paper’s revenue. Its efforts offer lessons for newspapers and broadcasters alike. This is Part IV of a four-part series. Part I on what TV stations are doing to integrate digital ad selling into their sales processes appeared Tuesday; Part II on the automated buying of spot appeared on Wednesday; and Part III on improving digital sales operations appeared on Thursday.

Automated, or programmatic, systems allow agencies to purchase advertising directly online, either eliminating sales people or limiting their role. In some instances, the systems involve an auction with buyers bidding for time. Such systems are commonplace in digital media, but they had far less success in the broadcast spot market. Now, however, some station groups are seeing the possibilities. This is Part II of a four-part series. Part I on what TV stations are doing to integrate digital ad selling into their sales processes appeared Tuesday; Part III, on Thursday, will focus on improving digital sales operations; and Part IV, on Friday, will offer a case study of a successful digital sales effort and the lessons it offers for broadcasters and newspapers alike.

The rise of mobile viewing platforms means TV stations have new tools to offer advertisers who want to reach viewers no matter where they are. And it means stations can offer a greater variety of options — and price points — to potential advertisers, many of whom don’t buy time on traditional TV. This is Part I of a four-part series. Part II on the automated buying of spot will appear tomorrow; Part III on Thursday will focus on improving digital sales operations; and Part IV on Friday will offer a case study of a successful digital sales effort and the lessons it offers for broadcasters and newspapers alike.

U.S. businesses are spending less on advertising than they were 10 years ago, while spending on promotions has nearly doubled in the same period, according to a new report from Borrell Associates.

Only 82.6% of sales managers and 81.8% of account executives expect 2012 revenue gains over 2011, according to the 2012 Mid-Year Local Ad Sales Forecast by AdMall.

Local delivers a customizable, targeted national footprint at lower cost. And it delivers the content — and corresponding GRPs — that aren’t available nationally. How much more credible of an alternative could there be?

Local advertising is traditionally slower to rebound than national, and indeed the recovery has hit a hiccup at the local level. Spending actually fell 2.4 percent last year, according to a new report from BIA/Kelsey. The research company’s chief economist, Mark Fratrik, talks about why local advertising fell last year, why he revised his forecast downward, and what to expect from local digital advertising over the next few years.