Closing the Attribution Loop

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While marketers cannot speak with every customer to learn about their journey, they can access those insights using the correct data. And that process starts with a fully closed attribution loop.

CEO POV: It’s Our Job to Solve Marketing Measurement

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The groundwork for this modern data-is-business strategy is a clearly defined approach to metadata management across the whole data-driven organization. And that can only be effective with executive buy-in.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Kalibrate Partners with Near on Location Intelligence

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Best Buy teaming up with Pokemon Go, Taiwan’s FamilyMart launching a convenience store on wheels, Baidu getting China’s first autonomous robotaxi license, and Kalibrate partnering with Near on location intelligence.

TikTok Jumps into Local Events

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For multi-location marketers, TikTok’s foray into events, and its increasing role as a destination for local discovery, portend that the platform is joining Facebook and other forums as a key place to connect online with local shoppers. TikTok can’t be ignored as an online-to-offline marketing channel.

Social Apps Are Creating a New UX for Local

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Young consumers are increasingly discovering local shops and restaurants on TikTok and Instagram, not Google or Yelp. An appetite for immersive visual experiences is behind the trend.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Amazon’s New Delivery Strategy

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers OneScreen.ai launching a public directory of OOH advertising inventory, Tim Hortons wanting to settle its location targeting lawsuit with free coffee, Sweetgreen gamifying its loyalty program with rewards and challenges, and Amazon planning to start deliveries from PacSun and Diesel stores.

The Six Building Blocks of Successful, Revenue-Generating Partnerships

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There is a blueprint for getting started with partnerships — six basic components that will give any partnership a solid and scalable foundation to build on. After over 20 years of watching and helping businesses launch successful partnerships, I can vouch for this six-point checklist.

Love Languages: 5 Ways to Earn Brand Loyalty 

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Hard metrics define brand loyalty’s value, but brand loyalty is really a feeling we earn by inspiring love, trust, and connections. It’s time to embrace that.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Heineken Uses Projection Ads to Reach NYC Office Workers

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Heineken using projection ads to target late-night NYC office workers, GeoGuessr bringing you virtual tourism, Radar launching “Place Matching” to improve POI data, and H&M and Amazon teaming up to test tech-enabled COS stores.

3 Predictive Analytics Models for Retailers

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Here’s how brands can understand the predictive analytics models available to them and determine what they need to improve their business.

Is Marketing Around Tentpole Moments Enough?

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A marketing strategy that focuses only on so-called “tentpole” moments misses out on a significant new part of the media and marketing landscape today: viral moments.

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

Location-Based Marketing Association: Rio SEO Partners with Moveable Ink on Hyperlocal Content

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Rio SEO partnering with Moveable Ink on hyperlocal content, Snapchat and Disney collaborating on a virtual mural, and the SmartRadio app powering voice-activated betting for drivers.

How Location Intelligence Can Help Solve Supply Chain Issues

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Many brands might feel their hands are tied when it comes to these macroeconomic factors. But there is a way to mitigate supply chain disruption, and it starts with data—location intelligence, or geospatial data, to be specific. Here’s how.

3 Ways In-Store Ads Boost Retail Media Results

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Within retail media strategies, many marketers are turning to audio in-store ads to drive engagement. Here’s how AOOH can foster immersive experiences, help marketers target key shoppers, and shift in accordance with demand.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Simon Property Group Launches Search Platform

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Readyland’s Alexa-enabled books letting kids talk to characters, Peru’s Oechsle dressing mannequins in theaters with their clothes, Simon Property Group launching a search platform for shoppers, Geobroadcast responding to broadcast association complaints, and updated stats on the performance of the SocialShelf platform.

TripleLift Partners with White Ops to Fight Ad Fraud

Review Extortion Reveals Strengths and Weaknesses of Local Ecosystem

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The impact of review fraud and extortion has been devastating for restaurant owners and managers, who are fully aware that they live and die by reviews.

How to Use Relevant Customer Data to Drive Personalized Experiences

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning have made the connection of data sources possible so brands can execute practical personalized CX approaches.

Location-Based Marketing Association: McDonald’s Gets Personal at the Drive Thru

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Verve Group partnering with Getty Images, Snapchat adding Ghost Trails for your friends’ location history, McDonald’s getting more personalized at the drive thru by recognizing car license plates, and SafeGraph partnering with PredictHQ for location intelligence.

Is Data the Key to Surviving the Great Resignation?

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To navigate these challenging times, businesses need to create more efficient hiring processes and outline ways to effectively retain the talent they have already hired. Accomplishing both goals will require the use of quality data sources. Here are some ways that data can help companies survive The Great Resignation. 

Ad Tech and Privacy

Designing a Data Collection Strategy That Improves Brand Safety

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As the consumer landscape shifts, it’s critical to dig deeper and get to know your customers and understand their changing preferences—not based on guesses or assumptions, but on clean, accurate first-party data that you collect and own. That work begins with creating a solid, privacy-centric data collection strategy.