On Location

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — CrowdOptic

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Guardly’s indoor emergency services; Banjo is chosen by Google+; Qualcomm’s greatest location advertising campaign ever; Hot Wheels tweets for Cameros; Sonar introduces us to the Bing Fund; and Andrew Mason shows his character...

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PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Timbre

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at apps that can help you find street food; KLM’s social map; the girl scouts go all-in to sell you cookies; and questions about LivingSocial's viability. Plus the resource of the week and special guest Mark Kasdorf, co-founder of location-based live music discovery app Timbre...

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On Location

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Talkbits, Moves

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Talkbits — this generation's version of the CB radio. Meanwhile, Weve wastes no time and starts working with Virgin Records; big quick-serve restaurants Olive Garden and Applebee’s get into the location marketing game; Yahoo! destroys (er, acqui-hires) Alike; and a glimpse of the future of the insurance industry from Spain. Plus, Sampo Karjalainen, founder of Moves stops by, and our resource of the week shows the power of big data...

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On Location

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Flock

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan bring you stories about live music discovery app Timbre, Ford's new location apps in SYNC, rumors about a Facebook "friend finder," and a deep dive into the abrupt closure of Everyblock by NBCU...

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PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Urban Airship

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan bring you stories about new photo polling app Voto; 42Floors, the AirBnB for office rentals; LivingSocial’s painful year; Pepsi’s next generation vending machine and the mobile food market starts to sizzle (sorry!); plus, Scott Kveton, CEO of Urban Airship...

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On Location

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Locationary

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan bring you stories on Listia and FrontFlip; a deep dive into what Facebook Graph Search means to location; and Rob’s latest obsession app called Moves. Plus special guest Grant Ritchie, founder and CEO of Locationary, and our resource of the week from Forrester...

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PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Lumi Mobile

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Google's moves with Zavers and Fieldtrip. They also touch on payments companies PayPal and GoBank and examine RedStripe’s latest local initiative. Plus special guest Dan Foreman of Lumi Mobile talks the death of surveys...

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PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Waze, Spun

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan have nine different stories, including their bewilderment at Waze; why they think 4sqTrigger is onto something; and UrbanAirship's progress with Tello. Also Scott Lindenbaum of Spun talks about using a goat for location-based marketing...

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PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — PushPoint Mobile

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at the state of telematics, "Parking Douche," and a great campaign from Meat Pack in Guatemala. Plus: M&A and funding activity, the resource of the week and special guest Greg McCalister, co-founder and CEO of PushPoint Mobile...

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PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — LBS in 2013

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In this week's episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look back at the most impactful stories on 2012, make six predictions for 2013, and pick a few companies to watch in the coming year...

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