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Automotive Advertisers Set Sights on CTV
Fresh from releasing its H2 2024 H2 Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Market Report, Mediaocean, an omnichannel ad platform, is out with its H2 2024 Automotive report. While linear TV remains a much cited choice for ad spend because of its ability to raise and spread product awareness, CTV has come on as the new darling channel […]
The Drive-Thru Keeps Growing (Literally)
A new Chick-fil-A concept store offers six-second meal prep and a four-lane drive-thru. After all, we live in a fast-paced, impatient world, and getting your food faster without leaving your car is a common practice these days. During the pandemic, the drive-thru became a regular part of our lives. Operators now realize that this model […]
Why is Waffle House So Successful? An FSR Conversation with Danny Klein
Danny Klein is the Editorial Director of FSR (full-service restaurant), a media company covering the food industry. A recent study on the top brands in the FSR world has implications for any MULO (multi-location) brand—restaurants, retailers, and service businesses. The study, created in partnership with Datassential, ranks the brands based on their number of units. The […]
Commentary
Location-Based Marketing Association: McDonald’s Gets Personal at the Drive Thru
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?
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.
Designing a Data Collection Strategy That Improves Brand Safety
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.
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The Most Common Multi-Location Marketing Challenges and How to Overcome Them
To make your life as a multi-channel marketer just a little bit easier, let’s talk about four of the most common multi-location marketing challenges—and how to overcome them.
Brands Seek to Communicate Beyond Basic Product Labels
Many consumers today don’t just want to know the basics of what a product entails. They want to know how it was made and whether it aligns with their values. Product labels are evolving to meet the demand.
Pinterest Leads the Charge on Shoppability
Even as Instagram pulls back on live shopping, another social platform is diving in further: Pinterest. The company has slowly leaned into shoppability over the past few years with more transactional features for direct commerce. Those moves include a “Shop” tab where products within videos and pins are shoppable. And on the merchant-facing end, Pinterest […]
Report: Consumers Seek New Channels to Access Online Reviews
According to a new consumer survey conducted by the reputation management company Chatmeter, 39% of people say they like the idea of using technology like ChatGPT for review information, and more than 30% like the idea of reading customer reviews in the metaverse.
5 Visual Chatbot Builders for Brands
Beyond the implications for content generation and SEO, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize customer service. When it’s used to power conversational interfaces, generative AI can make chabots come to life.
How Super Bowl Advertising Is Evolving
Super Bowl advertising is entering a new era of technology — one that is driven by immersive experiences and progressiveness.
Regulators and Enterprises Get Serious About Digital Privacy Rights
The wild west days of digital privacy are coming to a close. As European Union authorities step up enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and U.S. lawmakers continue their debate around regulating big tech, C-suite executives are being forced to step up their privacy initiatives.
Social Media May Be Winning the Search Engine Wars
As the search engine wars heat up and Microsoft prepares to unveil a new Bing powered by ChatGPT technology, a substantive competitor has entered the arena — social media. According to a new report, 82% of consumers prefer to search on social media over traditional search engines, and two in five would rather use TikTok than Google or Bing.
Digital Ad Regulation Doesn’t Necessarily Spell Disaster
There is disagreement over just how severely regulations will affect publishers, advertisers, and adtech companies. Scott McDonald, President and CEO at the Advertising Research Foundation, checked in with Street Fight to provide his take on what regulations are likely to pass and how they’ll affect digital advertising.
Brands Learn to Scale Campaign Execution with Ad Automation
Jay Kulkarni, CEO and founder of Theorem, is one of a growing number of thought leaders encouraging the use of advertising optimization and automation as a way to modernize the traditional ad revenue model. Rather than relying on highly-manual processes and workflows, he believes brands should look at automation as a way to speed up order cycles and decrease errors.
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