PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Picksie, AisleBuyer

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss some big acquisitions in the space, starting with Facebook’s purchase of Tagtile and Instagram, and Intuit’s acquisition of AisleBuyer. Retail’s revival is happening through location and mobile with PointInside’s nSide, Picksie’s ticket purchasing and Jetshop’s pop-up stores in Stockholm + AisleBuyer’s founder, Andrew Paradise…

Bringing Augmented Reality Marketing to Every Business

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For years, marketing and advertising agencies have strained themselves trying to isolate the most effective, meaningful and lasting image to sell their product. Now, brands are able to visually and audibly foster experiences which consumers can be a part of. Augmented reality is still in infancy, and it seems that there are no limitations to the communication potential it embodies…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Shopkick, Glancee

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss Urban Airship stacking the deck for contextual notifications; Shopkick and ExxonMobil offer discounts on everything but gas; Foursquare enters the take-out food fray; The Tap Lab and Skout raise some funds; Geosentric shuts down; and special guest, Alberto Tretti of Glancee.

In-Store Digital Signs Connect Businesses With Customers Via LBS

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Much of the focus around location-based services early on has been in the form of mobile applications like Foursquare and Twitter, but there is a new opportunity emerging for businesses to connect the mobile experience to digital signage and other marketing mediums as well…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Grabio, Xtify

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss Grabio’s location-based classifieds, Radio Shack’s targeting of old phone users, and LivingSocial dropping Instant but moving into take-out food. Also: The Relevance Resolution and special guest Josh Rochlin, CEO of Xtify…

Social Travel Apps Use Foursquare, Facebook Data to Tell You Where to Go

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Because many smartphone users are already collecting information about good bars, restaurants, and photos of tourist sites on their travels through location-based services, two new companies are compiling place information from your social media to create virtual travel guides form reviews based on input from people within your circle…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Waytag, Stopped.at, Goldrun

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss Tripbirds’ social travel, Waytag’s partnership with TomTom, Wynn Las Vegas’s use of location. Also in the lineup: is Stopped.at “the Foursquare of the web”; RedRobot and Newsit raise; OMGPop takes a good deal; and special guest Vivian Rosenthal, founder & CEO of GoldRun.

Carrier-Based Geo-Fencing Gives Brands the Power to Push

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I’ve said all along that location-based marketing will only be truly successful in attracting significant ad dollars when we realize that it more than just a mobile marketing concept — and really much more about the integration of any media that has the ability to influence somebody in a specific place. It appears that some brands are getting the message…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — PayPal, WirelessWerx

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss Kevin Rose’s flight to Google, PayPal’s response to Square with a triangle, Amex and Twitter saved $1.7 Million at McDonald’s, the state of the local mobile transaction scene, and special guest Patrick Blattner, Chief Product Office at WirelessWerx…

New Apps Facilitate Real-World Connections Via LBS

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Business conferences and festivals can be a great way to meet and connect with people who have similar interests — as well as potential business partners. But many people have encountered the difficulty of actually finding the right connections amidst a sea of people. A new cadre of location apps aimed at this problem took center stage last week at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, targeting both business and personal use cases…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — INTRO, Wallit, Momentfeed

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In this week’s video podcast from the Location Based Marketing Association, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at location-based dating with Eskimi; INTRO’s bid to be a mobile business connector; Wallit’s virtual augmented walls and Instagram. Plus, special guest Rob Reed from Momentfeed.

Marketers Use LBS to Promote Health Awareness — And Remedies

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With location-based services and the Internet, health information, particularly information about disease outbreaks, is now available at your fingertips. And a number of different services are using this location-specific data to inform users — and to target drugmakers’ ads…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Locately, Promobomb

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at IBM’s DemandTec dive into location analytics with Locately; Amex and Facebook payments; the YELP! IPO; and Libby Tucker of Promobomb…

Get Place-based Reminders Where and When They Matter

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Location-based reminders function similarly to regular reminders – but rather than being reminded at a specific time, the reminder comes when you are at a specific location…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Groupon, Banjo

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Groupon’s recent acquisitions, Google’s launch of a product fit for 2008, Toyota going extreme in Belgium, Caterina Fake’s Pinwheel and a report that shows the futility of mobile ad display + Banjo founder Damien Patton…

Sharing Location For a Humanitarian Cause

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In time of war and economic downturn, many turn to charities and the general public for help. But how can you find the help you need in today’s modern mobile world? Hyperlocal, of course!

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Amex, Pressly

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Twitter’s partnership with Amex on sponsored local tweets; mobile apps for civil engagement; the Sony XPERIA awesomeness that was their “Defy the Darkness” campaign; and Glamour’s Shoppable Wall. Plus special guest Jeff Brenner, CEO of Pressly…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Klout, Syzzle.me

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n this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan highlight British Petroleum’s innovative use of Navteq to drive (literally) gas sales; Dwolla closes cash; and Groupon makes a buy. Scott Rankine also talks up the yet-to-be released Syzzle.me…

Shazam-ing the Super Bowl and the Marketing Value of Audio Tagging

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Location-based marketing isn’t limited to mobile — it’s about how media is integrated into our lives no matter where we are. Nearly 50% of smartphone owners use their mobile device to search for product information after seeing a TV ad, according to a new study from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Yowza, Foursquare

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Telus’s partnership with WagJag, MomentFeed’s intensifying relationship with Foursquare, Facebook’s IPO, Yowza and CardSpring tap someone else’s money, and Foursquare’s Holger Luedorf talks about the company’s future…