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MULO Outposts are In Vogue Street Fight

MULO Outposts are In Vogue

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What do we mean by a MULO (multi-location) outpost? It’s a brand that’s located within a “non-traditional” venue. For example, Hudson News is a standard airport tenant that sells magazines, treats, and travel-related incidentals for travelers to grab en route. They have more than 1,000 stores now in 37 states. Imagine this writer’s surprise when […]

Why Granular Voter Data Matters for Ad Buyers Street Fight

Why Granular Voter Data Matters for Ad Buyers

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Comscore, which plans, transacts, and evaluates media across platforms, is for the first time, sharing its Congressional District CTV Index data for some Congressional Districts in New York, California, Nebraska, and Alaska.  With transformative data science and vast audience insights across digital, linear TV, over-the-top (OTT) and theatrical viewership, Comscore is a third-party source for […]

Who is Today's Franchisee? Street Fight

Who is Today’s Franchisee?

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The answer is, “It could be anyone!”  Among the new breed of franchisee (in addition to celebrities and private equity firms) are what we call “corporate refugees.” Experienced business professionals are burning out and aging out of big businesses and seeking autonomy, ownership, and creativity; they seek ways to operate and scale businesses without some […]

Commentary

Google Adds More Custom Relevance Signals to Local Results

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The ranking criteria that matters most for the current discussion is relevance. In offering product photos to users searching for products, Google is both declaring and emphasizing that this business has offerings relevant to the searcher’s stated need.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Tapestri Paying Users for Location Data

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association talks about Hexagon acquiring Immersal to merge the physical and digital worlds, Tapestri paying users for sharing location data, Intel looking to use drones as mobile billboards, and Google’s new radar sensor possibly being used to drive DOOH.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Tommy Hilfiger’s Dive into AR

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association talks about Tommy Hilfiger launching AR experiences on Ocean Outdoor screens in London, Cadbury taking “mean tweets” and turning them into wrappers for Vegan chocolate bars, Wing delivering medicine and ice cream by drone, and Elevator company Schindler creates its own screen media network.

Latest Posts

The Creator Economy Accelerates

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Adobe’s annual Max event is happening this week in LA, its first physical rendition since Covid lockdowns sidelined the event world. Max is all about the creator economy, the emerging crop of individuals and SMBs that create content. This has been Adobe’s target market for two decades. This all manifests in the ever-growing Creative Cloud… […]

How AI Can Help Retailers with Supply Chain Disruption

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The pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and climate change are fueling supply chain disruption. This has cost retailers billions as they struggle to get products to customers and optimize product distribution for demand. Better forecasting can help.

Retailers Leverage Omnichannel Strength to Launch Curated Marketplaces

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As retailers like Macy’s start selling products from other brands via their own third-party marketplaces, there are questions about the cost-to-benefit ratio.

Back in Action: U.S. Consumers Lead the Return to In-Store Shopping

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Surveying more than 12,000 shoppers, Mood Media found that 38% of consumers are shopping in-store more often now than two years ago, and 33% are shopping in-store at the same level.

Hyperlocology, mParticle Partner to Enable Localized Marketing for Franchise Brands

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A new partnership between the multi-location advertising platform Hyperlocology and mParticle, a customer data platform, could have major implications for franchise brands.

Ad Tech and Privacy

6 Modern CDPs for Multi-Location Retailers

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Beyond just serving as a tool for collecting and processing data from outside sources, though, modern CDPs are being used by multi-location retailers to actually develop hyper-personalized marketing campaigns based on first-party data.

How Post-Pandemic Shopping Habits Affect Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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Consumers aren’t holding off on gift purchases until the day after Thanksgiving. Retailers who’ve always counted on Black Friday in particular and the Cyber Five (Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday) in general to push them into profitability for the year need to develop new strategies based on data.

New Hires at Iterable, Connatix, and Criteo

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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 Iterable, Connatix, and Criteo.

Ad Tech and Privacy

Why Omnichannel Advertising Is Essential in the Current Economy

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Faced with economic uncertainties from inflation and recession to war and prolonged supply-chain disruption, marketers more than ever need to lean into omnichannel advertising.

Yahoo Partners with Lowe’s to Power Off-Site Media Experiences for Advertisers

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Yahoo announced that it has partnered with Lowe’s to power off-site media experiences for Lowe’s roster of brand advertisers. The deal positions Yahoo as the technology backbone for Lowe’s One Roof Media Network, enabling all off-site media buying and ad inventory not on Lowes.com or the Lowe’s mobile app.