How Brands Can Navigate the Economic Downturn

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Brands can make the most of their ad dollars during the downturn by leaning into point-of-purchase activations, switching to cost-effective channels, and investing in creative.

Google Pushes Maps in a More Visual Direction

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Google has been making search more visual for years. One step in this direction was making photos more prominent in search results. Now, Google is making Live View more searchable (it is Google, after all).

How Co-op Advertising is Fueling Localized Marketing Programs 

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Russ Mann, vice president of marketing at the Advertising Checking Bureau, checked in with Street Fight to discuss the state of multi-location marketing and the role co-op advertising has to play in the space.

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Retailers Bet on Digital Twin Technology

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Digital twin technology creates virtual models designed to reflect both online and physical systems, and it has captured the attention of the retail market.

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How the Kroger-Albertsons Merger Would Affect Retail Media

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If the Kroger-Albertsons merger ultimately goes through, it would create not just a new supermarket giant but a giant retail media network.  

Brands Leveraging Affiliate Channel to Move Retail Inventory

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With consumers expecting discounts this season, here’s how brands can leverage affiliate partners to effectively move inventory and make sales.

Yelp’s Spotlight Ads Help National Brands at a Local Level

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A new ad product from Yelp is helping national and regional brands connect with consumers at the local level. 

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Local SEO Strategy: 4 Tips Every Agency Needs to Know

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To captivate the shoppers who are most likely to buy—that is, the consumers in your client’s local market—you need a strategy that gets your client to the top of local search results. Here’s why local SEO matters and how to build an effective local SEO strategy for your clients.

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Lowe’s Joins Brand Marketers Embracing TikTok’s Influence

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TikTok’s influence has been felt throughout 2022, but it’s about to get even harder to ignore this holiday season. 

Brand Shoppability Comes to YouTube Shorts

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We can add one more channel to the list of shoppable apps: YouTube Shorts. The YouTube feature that’s meant to compete with TikTok for short-form video has announced that it will integrate shoppable content and affiliate revenue. This comes as it tries to attract creators and counteract revenue declines.

Vibenomics Survey: Retail Shoppers Prioritizing Price Above All Else

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Tradition, loyalty, and nostalgia have long been hallmarks of holiday shopping. Until now. According to a survey by the audio OOH advertising firm Vibenomics, inflation-weary consumers are prioritizing price above all else in holiday shopping this year. Surveying more than 1,000 consumers, the new Vibenomics survey found that 59% of shoppers plan to look for […]

Black Friday YOY Retail Sales Expected to Jump

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While it’s not too late to roll out a Black Friday promotion, the clock is ticking. Experts say now is the time to experiment with discounts and deals designed to win over consumers amid rising inflation and changing consumer habits. 

VOD Ad-Supported Adoption Predicted by Kantar – 2023

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According to the Media Trends and Predictions 2023 report, released Wednesday by the media analytics and brand consulting firm Kantar, ad-supported models may be the solution to inflation concerns within the media industry.

Marketers Are Changing How They Think About OOH — Here’s Why

Location data is increasingly being used to help retailers target outdoor ads to specific groups of consumers, while the ability to combine artificial intelligence with advanced techniques like travel pattern analysis is giving brands an even better understanding of customer routes.

Retailers Grapple with Decreased Loyalty from Omnichannel Shoppers

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Sixty-nine percent of consumers say they expect a consistent cross-channel customer experience. And that’s just the beginning.

Report: Black Friday Is Back — With a Vengeance

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According to the findings of a new consumer survey commissioned by UserTesting and conducted by the market research company OnePoll, 43% of shoppers say they miss the frenzy of in-store Black Friday shopping and 42% say in-store shopping is more important now than pre-pandemic.

How DCO Is Enriching Multi-Location Marketing

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Some multi-location and franchise marketers are looking to dynamic creative optimization, or DCO, to expand their localized digital marketing capabilities. Tommaso Vaccarella, GM, Connected-Stories, connected with Street Fight to explain how DCO and multi-location are coming together. 

Google’s Latest Privacy Play Has Big Implications for the Open Web

Google Overhauls Business Profile Manager with Transition to Search Interface

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Lots of the functionality is exactly the same between the old GMB and the new NMX, the only difference being where the features reside. For most businesses, updating your phone number, your hours of operation, or your business attributes will seem very familiar. Here are some of the significant differences.

New Hires at Goodway Group, Mirriad, and LiveIntent

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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 month’s roundup features new hires at Goodway Group, Mirriad, and LiveIntent.

Brand Advertisers Say CTV Likely to Overtake Mobile

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According to a new report on connected TV trends by AppsFlyer, 98% of brands believe CTV advertising has the potential to be bigger than mobile, but just 64% of businesses are currently running direct response campaigns on CTV.