Metropolitan Area
Ames, IA Metro Marketing
The Ames, IA area covers 2 counties and roughly 129,227 residents. Search behaviour follows the commute, not the city limit. The market reaches past Ames into Boone, so a business here is usually selling across the whole footprint rather than one city.
On the ground
What the Ames, IA market looks like
Across those 2 counties there are 2,768 business establishments and 4 advertising, public relations, and marketing consulting firms. That works out to about 692 businesses for every firm selling marketing services here. Those counts come from the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns and are reported at metropolitan-area level, not city level.
- Metro population
- 129,227
- Business establishments
- 2,768
- Counties
- 2
- Cities covered
- 2
Depth where it matters
Industries in the Ames, IA area
Each of these has a page covering how buyers in that category search here. Establishment counts are from County Business Patterns and cover the whole metro.
Restaurant
77 establishments across the metro.
Real Estate
66 establishments across the metro.
Lawn & Garden
54 establishments across the metro.
Insurance
53 establishments across the metro.
Home Improvement
44 establishments across the metro.
Dental
37 establishments across the metro.
Auto Parts & Repair
33 establishments across the metro.
Law Firms
33 establishments across the metro.
Why us
What sets AdsTalent apart here
Coverage is organized around the market rather than a single city, because that is how customers actually move through it. A business in this area is usually selling across the whole footprint, so the plan has to think that way: local search presence in every community that matters, paid search scoped to a real service area, and a site answer engines can read cleanly.
Across our network
AdsTalent and our partner network bring two decades of small-business digital marketing across every major channel: SEO, paid search, paid social, email, reputation, and conversion optimization.
Questions
Common questions about the Ames, IA market
- What areas does the Ames, IA market cover?
- The Ames, IA area is a federally defined metropolitan statistical area covering 2 counties and about 129,227 residents. AdsTalent covers 2 cities within it, including Ames and Boone.
- How many businesses are in the Ames, IA area?
- There are 2,768 business establishments across the Ames, IA metropolitan area, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns. That figure counts establishments, not employees, and covers the full 2-county area rather than the city of Ames alone.
- How competitive is marketing in the Ames, IA area?
- The Ames, IA area has 4 advertising, public relations, and marketing consulting firms serving 2,768 business establishments, or roughly 692 businesses per firm. Markets with more businesses per firm are generally less contested in local search, though competition varies by industry.
- Which industries does AdsTalent work with in the Ames, IA area?
- Every industry with a real presence in the market. The largest here include restaurant (77 establishments), real estate (66 establishments), and lawn & garden (54 establishments). Each has its own page covering how buyers in that category search locally.
- Does AdsTalent work with businesses outside Ames?
- Yes. Coverage is organized around the whole Ames, IA market rather than one city, because a business here typically draws customers from across the metro. Work is handled remotely, with no requirement to meet in person.
- Where do the market figures on this page come from?
- Business establishment counts come from the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns, population from the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program, and the metropolitan-area definition from the Office of Management and Budget's core based statistical area delineations. All three are public federal sources.
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