Placed Launches Analytics Product to Make Local Ad Targeting Smarter

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Placed, a two year-old startup based in Seattle, has spent the last two years passively tracking the physical movements of over 70,000 smartphone owners who chose to share their location with the company. Today, the venture-back firm is opening that data to marketers, launching a Nielsen-like ratings service called Placed Insights to help advertisers intelligently buy location-targeted advertising…

Street Fight Daily: Pinterest Buys Livestar, Starbucks’ Shoddy Square Rollout

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Pinterest Acquires Local Recommendation App Livestar (AllThingsD)… Starbuck’s Shoddy Square Rollout Baffles Baristas, Confuses Customers (Fast Company)… Yelp: Study Says Our SMB Advertisers Make $23K More per Year (Screenwerk)…

Street Fight Daily: Mobile Payments Lack Winner, Groupon’s Temp Leadership

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Mobile Payments Still Lack Clear Winner (Media Post)… The Reward for Fixing Groupon? Not Much (Wall Street Journal)… Square’s Launch in Canada v. US: Higher Adoption Rate and Larger Transaction Size (The Next Web)…

Street Fight Daily: AOL COO May Exit, Airbnb Expands Hyperlocal Contnent

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.COO Artie Minson Could Exit Aol, Patch Issues To Blame? (TechCrunch)… Airbnb’s Neighborhoods Program Expands With the Addition 93 Local Guides in 4 New Cities worldwide (The Next Web)… Foursquare CEO Looks Beyond Mobile Handsets: Anywhere There’s A Screen, We Want To Be On It (TechCrunch)…

Can Foursquare Get Its Mojo Back by Embracing ‘Passive’ Check-Ins?

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Does Foursquare need to be “fun” anymore? I’d say no. “Fun” means fighting an ever-diminishing battle over consumer mindshare on mobile — a fight Foursquare is losing. It’s also contrary to what Foursquare is trying to build with its Explore functionality…

5 Analytics Platforms SMBs Can Use to Parse Customer Data

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A number of platforms are making it easier for local merchants to track consumer behavior on mobile devices, allowing retailers to analyze the influence that check-ins, mobile apps usage, and foot traffic patterns have on their bottom lines. Here are five platforms that give businesses ways to utilize online data for better consumer targeting…

Can Businesses Use Hyperlocal to Leverage Customers’ Politics?

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There has been significant coverage about the differences in Democrats and Republicans, but to date there hasn’t been any analysis on real world activities associated with political affiliation. From grocery stores to restaurants, from retailers to gas stations, voting Democrat or Republican plays a part in which establishments we step foot in and which ones we don’t…

Place Off: A Week in the Life of the Mobile Local Revolution

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A couple columns back, I covered the collision of big data, mobile and local (please refrain from acronyms… “BiDaLoMo”!). That covered some location analytics players like JiWire and Sense Networks. But since then, the action has picked up. In the last week alone, I’ve had in-depth conversations with others defining this space including Placed, PlaceIQ, and Telenav…

Placed Launches Platform to Measure Offline Consumer Behavior

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Location analytics provider Placed has unveiled a new platform to measure offline consumer behavior, offering marketers and publishers the ability to measure the physical businesses their customers visit. With Placed Panels, which relies on opt-in consumer participants, marketers need only to create their own unique panel through Placed’s website and recruit consumer panelists…

5 Analytics Platforms For Better Hyperlocal Ad Targeting

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Location analytics platforms can be just as useful for developers and publishers as they are for major brands and agencies. In fact, these platforms can be a useful tool for just about anyone who’s looking to gather more inside data about their audience or the audiences they’re trying to reach through mobile ads. Here are five location analytics platforms that brands, marketers, and developers can use to learn more about their target consumers…

Street Fight Daily: FiveStars, LevelUp Raise Double-Digit Funding

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.FiveStars Picks Up $14 Million to Challenge the Loyalty Punch Card (All Things D)… LevelUp Now Has $21M To Take On The Squares Of The Mobile Payment World (TechCrunch)… Facebook Stories the Next Patch, Flipboard, HuffPo or Something Else? (Paid Content)…

Getting Location Analytics Up to Speed for the Mobile Ad Revolution

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The inability to apply value to the key differentiator of mobile (location) is part of the reason why mobile CPMs are still at 20% of desktop CPMs. It’s critical that media buyers push mobile inventory sources to provide location analytics that enable them to make buying decisions based on the unique features associated with mobile…

Street Fight Daily: Groupon Retail, Journatic Fallout Continues

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Groupon Opens Concept Store in Singapore (CNet)… The Uncomfortable Truth Behind the Journatic Byline Scandal (GigaOm)… Rumor: Twitter To Acquire Sense Networks To Better Target Local Ads (TechCrunch)

Placed Snags $3.4M in Funding To Bring Location Analytics to Developers

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The location analytics startup emerged from a 13-month stealth period yesterday, announcing Series A funding as well the release of a new product for mobile app developers. Placed for Developers is a free SDK that enables developers of location-aware apps to analyze the real-world context in which their products are being used…