Street Fight Daily: Google Bought MasterCard Data for Attribution, Free Coffee for Consumer Data?

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Google and MasterCard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Establish Attribution… Why Publishers Are Transitioning to Affiliate Marketing… Possibly Foreshadowing Retail Trend to Come, a Shop Exchanges ‘Free’ Coffee for Data…

Why Publishers Are Transitioning to Affiliate Marketing

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Affiliate marketing spend will hit $6.8 billion by 2020, as major publishers like Business Insider, Forbes, and Conde Nast shift their approach in order to appeal to advertisers who are demanding more transparency and value.

Street Culture: Adcellerant Won’t Take Your Coffee Away

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Adcellerant has been on Inc.’s Best Workplaces list for the last two years and ranked as the No. 2 best place to work in Colorado for a medium-sized company this year by the Denver Business Journal. The company was founded in 2013 and currently employs about 40 people.

LBMA Podcast: McDonald’s, Google Sued, Telnav & Sionic Mobile

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Featured on this week’s Location-Based Marketing Association podcast: Telnav + Sionic Mobile, Telestra, Keyo’s pay by palm, McDonald’s, Dove’s AR cover campaign, Google sued. Special guest: Robert Radek, GEON Network.

Civil’s Bold Plan for the News Crisis: ‘Flip the Business Model on Its Head’

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In this Q&A, Matt Coolidge, head of marketing and a co-founder at Civil, explains how a “new economy for journalism” oriented around unifying publishers and their audiences is working to flip the business model for news through such innovative approaches as blockchain technology.

Who Will Own Your Augmented Reality?

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Questions about AR ownership will be particularly contentious wherever money is changing hands, such as in AR advertising. Courts will face questions such as ownership of digital ad inventory when there are AR overlays on private property (or on other ads). There could be similar gray area in retail & commerce.

Street Fight Daily: Foursquare Teams with AccuWeather; Civil Builds Community-, Blockchain-Based Media Ecosystem

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Foursquare Will Fuel AccuWeather’s New Location-Based Recommendations… Civil’s Bold Plan for the News Crisis: ‘Flip the Business Model on Its Head’… The IoT Market Gap: Consumer Knowledge Low, Smart Device Ownership High…

Street Fight Daily: Consumers Crave Transparency from Brands, Retailers Are Figuring It Out

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… Report: Consumers Seek Transparency From Brands on Social Media… What Do You Know, Retailers Are Figuring It Out… Billy Penn, Denverite, and The Incline Are Going After Members…

Report: Consumers Seek Transparency From Brands on Social Media

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In surveying 1,000 U.S. consumers, the social media management platform Sprout Social found that 86% believe transparency from businesses is more important now than ever before, and more than half say they want brands to be more transparent on social media.

Mobile Advertisers, Don’t Be Fooled By Claims About ‘Precise’ Data

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When selecting data for mobile campaigns, don’t base your decision solely on claims about precision or how many decimal places appear in the coordinates, and definitely don’t mistake precision for accuracy. Precision is important, but the value of precision hinges on data accuracy.

How Brand Marketers Can Capture Consumer Attention on Mobile

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With mobile ad spend set to surpass television for the first time this year, brand marketers are in a frenzy looking for smarter ways to generate the highest possible ROI from their investments. The problem, it seems, is that many brand marketers aren’t fully comfortable with mobile strategy.

Survey: Multi-Location Brands Warm to AI, See It as Most Useful for Email

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Multi-location brands are almost twice as interested in exploring artificial intelligence for analytics as they were last year, according to Street Fight’s latest survey. But there’s a significant disconnect between their perception of what’s most useful about AI and what suppliers of local marketing tech and services think about that same question.

Street Fight Daily: Google Introduces ‘Ad Strength’ Metric, What Brand Marketers See in AI

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… Google Introduces ‘Ad Strength,’ New Metric to Assess Relevance of Ad Copy… Survey: Multi-Location Brands Warm to AI, See It as Most Useful for Email… Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law on Its Own Terms…

As ‘Near Me’ Searches Spread on Mobile, Consumers Trade Loyalty for Convenience

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Location marketing is changing the way people shop in the real world, potentially decreasing the role loyalty plays in purchasing decisions as consumers prioritize convenience. According to the results of a new study commissioned by the location marketing platform Uberall, 82% of shoppers have done a “near me” search on their smartphones.

Facebook Takes a Stab at Local—Again

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“As it stands, Facebook’s latest local effort is of academic interest but hardly seems a reason for businesses to actively re-engage with the free side of the social giant’s features. From a competitive viewpoint, it hardly seems the stuff of legend needed to take on the current local search hegemon, Google,” Mike Blumenthal tells David Mihm in their latest biweekly column.

Street Fight Daily: Facebook’s Latest Shot at Local, Mobile Search Habits May Undermine Loyalty

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… Facebook Takes a Stab at Local—Again… As ‘Near Me’ Searches Spread on Mobile, Consumers Trade Loyalty for Convenience… Google Might Be Hiding the Fact That Its Own Reviews Are Shoddy…

Openings and New Hires at Cheetah Digital, Dstillery, Infogroup

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Every two or three weeks, Street Fight rounds up some of the latest hires and new openings in the hyperlocal marketing, tech, and media industries. This week’s edition includes hires and new openings at Nintex, DoorDash, NinthDecimal, and Drawbridge.

LBMA Podcast: DoorDash, Uberall & TripAdvisor, Apple

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On this week’s Location-Based Marketing Association podcast: Uberall + TripAdvisor, DoorDash, Sinagpore’s WhereIsWhere, Mall of America, Amazon buying Landmark Theatres?, Apple going into your windshield.

Raise Report: Drawbridge, DoorDash, Karma Lock Down New Funding

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Every two or three weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week’s edition includes funding for Carmera, Simple Feast, Nylas, and PebblePost.

Street Fight Daily: Advertisers Debate Ads Data Hub as Google ID Vanishes, Verifone Partners with TruRating

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… As Google Restricts Its Ad ID, Advertisers Debate Whether to Use Ads Data Hub… TruRating, Verifone Deal Highlights Importance of Customer Feedback Data… Newly Launched Block Club Chicago (Out of DNAinfo) Goes a ‘Bit Old School’…