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Clean Room Consortium Aims to Clarify How Advertisers Can Use the Technology

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Adam Gelles, CEO of The B2B Marketing Company, and Richard Sobel, CEO of Mercato Solutions, founded the Clean Room Consortium as a sort of trade organization to help all stakeholders understand and best capitalize on the technology. We touched base on how advertisers and publishers are already using clean rooms and what the media community needs to know.

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What’s Driving CX? 3 Predictions for 2023

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This is a pivotal moment for the state of customer experience (CX) as customers demand more connected, frictionless, and innovative experiences. However, despite the significance of CX, according to Forrester’s US Customer Experience Index, CX quality declined for 19% of brands in 2022. 

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Forecasting the Future: 4 Retail Marketing Trends Coming in 2023

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Retail media, the rise of TikTok, merchandising advances to deal with supply chain constraints, and shortened paths to conversion — these are just four of the trends in 2022 that Street Fight contributors see picking up steam in 2023.

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Amazon Takes a Page from the TikTok Playbook

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Social commerce provides the promise of an additional revenue stream for social platforms that have largely relied on advertising for monetization. The giants are copying each other to get there, and Amazon has taken a page from the TikTok playbook to spur its latest advance.

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5 In-Store Digital Retail Media Platforms

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Is it retail media? Contextual advertising? Digital out-of-home? The latest crop of in-store digital retail media platforms are all of the above — and more.

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Consumer Trust and Green Shopping Lead the Way in 2023

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With almost every business continuing to evolve, 2023 is going to build on the success of this year. In fact, next year will present new opportunities to build trust, innovate digital marketing tactics, and advance our industry’s effort to reduce our industry’s climate impact. 

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4 Ways DOOH Will Break Open the Metaverse Ad Market in 2023

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The writing is on the wall. From the Trade Desk’s push into in-game advertising to IAB’s decision to update its in-game measurement guidelines, the foundation of what will eventually become the metaverse advertising market was laid in 2022. Now, as we look ahead into 2023, what comes next?

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Don’t Call It a Comeback: QR Codes Poised for a Resurgence in 2023

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It may be too soon to pinpoint the biggest takeaways from the 2022 holiday marketing blitz, but one in-store technology stands out from the rest: QR codes.

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Report: High-Income Consumers Forge Ahead with Holiday Spending

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The divide between the “haves” and the “have nots” is growing. According to a new report by Havas Media Group and the CX intelligence platform DISQO, the bifurcation in holiday spending intent between lower and higher-income consumers is stark — and it’s only getting larger.

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Elevating Subscriptions: Turning Transactions into Deeper Customer Relationships

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What brands need to do to maximize the value of subscriptions is deliver—and differentiate themselves—on exceptional customer experiences (CX). This includes real-time support and service to meet high demand while furthering customer relationships. 

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Grocers Grapple with Reaching Middle-Market Shoppers

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Of all the categories of retail shoppers, one stands out as being particularly difficult to reach — the middle-market shopper. Neither price sensitive nor premium, middle-market shoppers are unpersuaded by the availability of cheaper or more sustainable options. To engage this elusive group, one-to-one marketing is the only reliable option.

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How Advertisers Can Capitalize on YouTube Shorts Coming to CTV

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Curt Larson, chief product officer of Sharethrough, checked in with Street Fight to explain the significance of YouTube shorts’ move to CTV. He also shared thoughts on the increasingly intertwined future of CTV and mobile as marketing channels.

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Quotient Offers Advertisers Scale with Retail Ad Network

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More players are entering the retail media space each month, making it increasingly difficult for brands to measure retail media campaigns across multiple networks in a holistic way. But executives at the digital promotions firm Quotient believe they’ve found a solution. Just this morning, Quotient launched its own retail ad network. 

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Many Consumers May Be Relaxing on Location Privacy — But Not Necessarily for Ads

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Are Americans opening the door on privacy? Despite initial reservations, a new survey shows consumers are largely open to sharing their location data with brands, as long as it benefits them personally or improves society at large. But comparatively few say they’ll share location data in exchange for ads.

What Amazon’s Clean Room Services Move Means for Advertisers and Competitors

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The AWS foray into clean room tech has the potential to shake ad tech’s foundation and lock a lot of established providers out of the market before clean rooms even really become a standard part of the ad tech stack.

New Hires at Cooler Screens, Good-Loop, and BRIDGE

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The Street Fight new hires roundup features movers and shakers in adtech, martech, e-commerce, localized marketing, location intelligence, and more. This week’s roundup features new hires at Cooler Screens, Good-Loop, and BRIDGE.

Reality Check: These Social Trends Will Actually Shape Local Marketing in 2023

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These subtle, yet pragmatic, social marketing trends will guide next year far more than the bullhorn announcements that declare everything is different now.

Instagram Becomes a Product Discovery Engine

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Instagram has somehow conditioned its users to see it as a product discovery engine. Its feed is filled with fashion and food products … and users lap it up.

8 Essentials for a Modern Store Locator Experience

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Whether you call it a store locator, dealer finder, location finder, or service locator, creating a modernized, convenient, and relevant experience is essential to support your customer seamlessly throughout their online experience.

Why You Should Add CTV Advertising to Your Local Channel Portfolio

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As a marketer, it’s essential to advertise in the places where your customers spend their time. Increasingly, that place is CTV.