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$162,000,000

$162,000,000 -- mobile local sms ad revenue for U.S. mobile local commercial SMS advertising (2017)

Name: Mobile Local Sms Ad Revenue Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-28

2017 · BIA/Kelsey

U.S. mobile local commercial SMS advertising revenue is forecast to reach $162 million in 2017.

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$162,000,000

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2017

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U.S. mobile local commercial SMS advertising

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BIA/Kelsey Primary Tier A

https://bia.com/press-releases/u-s-mobile-local-ad-revenues-expected-to-reach-9-1-billion-in-2017/ ↗

Confidence: 32/100 Vintage: 2017 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

U.S. Mobile Local Ad Revenues Expected to Reach $9.1 Billion in 2017

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BIA/Kelsey · Original study ↗

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BIA/Kelsey format breakdown of mobile local ad spending

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U.S. mobile local commercial SMS advertising: $162,000,000 mobile local sms ad revenue. Source: BIA/Kelsey (2017). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/mobile-local-sms-ad-2017

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