PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Beergram
Welcome to This Week in Location Based Marketing, a weekly video podcast from the Location Based Marketing Association. In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss the Singapore government’s plan to roll out location-based services; Google’s Niantic Labs (makers of the popular location-based game Ingress) gets into book publishing; Locu uses big data to track Pabst Blue Ribbon consumption (and identify the Hipster density). Apple acquires WiFiSlam + Tibco acquires Maporama. Jay Shells takes us on a location-based rap lyric street art project. Plus special guest Andrea Sanchez, founder of Beergram and our resource of the week.
Recorded: March 30, 2013
Hosts: Rob Woodbridge & Asif Khan
Show highlights:
A few announcements
– Come see us live in San Francisco! More details can be found here.
– We wrote (part of) a book! The Everything Guide to Mobile Apps and it is available for order now!
– If you’d like to leave a message for us to play on the show, leave it here
App Fascination of the week: Vizible for Twitter (6:40)
Featured Guest
Andrea Sanchez, founder Beergram (29:00)
Top news of the week
1. Singapore government to roll out location-based services (12:00)
2. Niantic Labs gets into e-books (19:00)
3. Locu shows heat maps of Pabst Blue Ribbon consumption (25:35)
4. Apple acquires WiFiSlam (39:30)
5. Tibco buys Maporama (44:55)
6. Jay Shells’ location-based street art with rap lyrics (50:15)
Resource of the Week
RoundBuzz – LocationSMS whitepaper (55:20)