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Fat Brands Blasts Off for Success

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This writer was honored to be invited to an all-franchisee gathering of Fat Brands corporate team members, franchisees, and partners. Live events have made a comeback, as illustrated by the attendance of close to 2K people who enjoyed a close-up view of the Las Vegas Sphere, which was in keeping with the space theme of […]

How B2C Marketers are Spending in 2024 Street Fight

How B2C Marketers are Spending in 2024

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A new study among senior-level B2C marketers was just completed by Stirista, a company that offers data-driven performance marketing. Among the highlights of this 200-executive survey are: Marketers are optimistic. An overwhelming 91% of respondents have a positive outlook on meeting or exceeding marketing goals over the next year. Although 81% of marketers have seen […]

Vericast Introduces nCountR Platform and Market Experience Center for Retail Advertising Innovation Street Fight

Vericast Introduces nCountR Platform and Market Experience Center for Retail Advertising Innovation

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Despite the rise of e-commerce, in-store experiences remain crucial for retailers. Recent studies indicate that a significant portion of consumers still prefer to make their purchases in physical stores, underscoring the importance of effective in-store advertising strategies. Against this backdrop,  Vericast has unveiled the name of its advanced retail media platform: nCountR. Alongside this announcement […]

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Impacts of a Cookieless Future

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Preparing for the end of third-party cookies now enables you to take advantage of the benefits of the alternative approaches available to you. The sooner you start, the better equipped you’ll be to minimize negative impacts on your marketing KPIs — and even find new ways to grow.

How Brands Can Better Serve Increasingly Elastic Customers

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One of the many things the pandemic has demonstrated is the elasticity of consumers – they’ll continue to consume and ‘snap back’ to their preferred methods, albeit with some new expectations. This is what businesses need to know about the elastic consumer and how they can shift practices to best serve their customers in 2022.

Digital Privacy

Does Anyone Want Hermetic Commerce? A Reflection on Local and the Metaverse

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What is it, besides the need of Meta as a public company to develop new marketplaces — and perhaps distance itself from unpleasant contemporary scandals — that is driving such an aggressive vision of the future? Why the metaverse, and why now?

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Combating Affiliate Fraud with Qualified Traffic

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Even though fraud is possible, a well-run affiliate program is far less likely to lose money due to fraud, thanks to checks and balances that detect anomalies.

Meta Walks Back Hyperlocal Efforts

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Meta has taken a crack at several local commerce initiatives over the years. That’s everything from Facebook Marketplace to Instagram’s new map interface. But one of those efforts recently took a step back: Neighborhoods.

Digital Turbine and Apptopia Assess Correlation Between Awareness and Mobile Installs

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One of digital marketing’s biggest challenges is quantifying brand awareness and connecting it to lower-funnel conversions. In the mobile space, Digital Turbine and Apptopia believe they’ve found a way to do just that.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Panera Bread Tests CarPlay in the Drive-Thru

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers REVLAB Technology rolling out its Campus Safe panic button, the Minnesota Twins partnering with ARound for virtual experiences, Panera Bread testing CarPlay in the drive-thru, and Cerence launching a new solution to make any car smart.

How AI is Helping Companies and Influencers Publish Content

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Content creation and marketing is a painstaking business. AI tools are emerging to help content creators and marketing teams cut out repetitive tasks and devote themselves to the human tasks, like engaging with prospects, that technology alone cannot manage.

Digital Currency

5 Cryptocurrency Payment Gateways for Multi-Location Retailers

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In order to turn crypto payment plans into reality, retailers are relying on payment gateways that process digital currencies and convert crypto coins into fiat money, or government-issued currency.

Constellation Announces Global Expansion, Plans to Enter New Markets

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Constellation, a SaaS company that offers technology-enabled marketing and manages hyper-targeted campaigns at scale, is expanding. 

Maximizing Brand Growth via OOH amid a Downturn

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The channel as a whole has evolved from the last time the country went through a recession in 2008, opening up many more opportunities for brands looking to remain front and center for consumers during economic turmoil. Here are five strategic ways to maximize brand growth via OOH during a recession. 

Branded Apps Are Connecting with Local Consumers

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We’ve solidly entered the era of the branded app as the central platform for successful local loyalty programs. Branded apps, because they encourage and reward repeat business, can be seen as the central hub of a successful localized marketing strategy for many multi-location brands, especially in certain verticals where repeat business is relatively easy to win.

Biometric Authentication in Retail: What the Future Holds

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Google’s recent decision to offer biometric authentication to Chrome users is just the beginning. In both the online and offline space, more companies — including multi-location retailers — have begun using biometric authentication in payments as a way to cut down on credit card fraud and chargebacks.