News and Analysis

LOMA Platform Boosts Hyperlocal Marketing for Franchises Street Fight

LOMA Platform Boosts Hyperlocal Marketing for Franchises

Share this:

If LOMA knows anything, it’s how to support franchise businesses. Since launching last September with a $2 million pre-seed venture capital round, the data-driven platform is ready to take the next step in supporting local marketing efforts. (LOMA stands for “local marketing.”) In recent weeks, LOMA launched the first enterprise software platform for multi-location franchise […]

UNFI and Swiftly Bring State-of-the-Art Retail Marketing to the Grocery World Street Fight

UNFI and Swiftly Bring State-of-the-Art Retail Marketing to the Grocery World

Share this:

UNFI (United Natural Foods, Inc.) supplies 30K stores across North America, ranging from small three-store regional brands to huge brands like Whole Foods. The largest wholesale distributor to the U.S. and Canada specializes in groceries, frozen foods, produce, health and beauty products, deli items, and bakery items. But their scope isn’t limited to getting these […]

Placer.ai Releases 100 Retail and Dining Index Street Fight

Placer.ai Releases 100 Retail and Dining Index

Share this:

Placer.ai, a market intelligence platform, has released its Placer 100 Retail and Dining Index, which it plans to release monthly in order to provide an ongoing understanding of retail’s status, challenges, and potential for brands including Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili’s, Crunch Fitness, Warby Parker and other large retail chains. Location analytics including visit trends, trade […]

Commentary

iOS Marketing and Attribution One Year After Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency

Share this:

Now that we are coming up on the one year anniversary of ATT and the deprecation of the IDFA, it’s time to look back at what we’ve learned, what’s changed, and what the best practices are when building a successful, scalable user acquisition strategy for iOS 14.5+.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Why Starbucks is Adding EV Charging Stations

Share this:

In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association talks about Volvo installing EV charging stations at Starbucks stores, Tim Hortons doing the same in Canada, ParkBee raising $33M, Prose partnering with BreezoMeter on local pollution-based hair care, and CrownTV releasing a digital signage app to display NFTs at retailers.

Let’s Stay Together: Retaining Customers in a Post-Pandemic E-Commerce World

Share this:

Brands can maximize customer retention through integrated subscription experiences, exclusive content, and technology that prioritizes customer behavior.

Latest Posts

New Hires at Digital Remedy, GlassView, and DISQO

Share this:

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 Digital Remedy, GlassView, and DISQO.

customer experience retail

Yelp Comes to an Inbox Near You

Share this:

With Mailchimp now in the mix, Yelp can be a central component of brands’ email outreach. This helps brands generate content that can be featured in their newsletters (think “review of the week”), which is always welcome to ‘content-starved’ brand marketers or time-starved franchisees.

Lytics Debuts Conductor to Unify Customer Data

Share this:

As brands more often deploy multiple customer data platform to craft a holistic picture of customers using their martech stack, the CDP Lytics released Conductor, which it is calling the “centerpiece” of its “composable” CDP. Conductor is a customer data infrastructure product that aims to cut costs and generate greater ROI by unifying a company’s customer data.

Yelp Mailchimp

Yelp Is Making It Easier to Add Review Content to Email Campaigns

Share this:

As businesses work to increase the return on investment of email marketing, Yelp is launching a new feature designed to add local reviews and other user-generated content to Mailchimp campaigns.

5 Cloud-Based Platforms for Optimizing Retail Returns

Share this:

Returns are soaring along with e-commerce transactions. Here are five return management and pick-up services designed for retail businesses.

Apple’s Search Ad Business Triples in Market Share

Share this:

AppsFlyer reports in its latest mobile advertising Performance Index that Apple Search Ads tripled in market share since 1H 2020. During the same period, other search ad competitors’ market share declined, the most consequential (read: billions in revenue) being Google and Meta.

What’s Old Is New Again: Marketers Adopt Marketing Mix Modeling

Share this:

As signal loss complicates granular measurement frameworks like multi-touch attribution, marketers are reconsidering more holistic techniques like marketing mix modeling, or MMM. 

Identity is Table Stakes, But There’s More Than One Table

Share this:

Since first-party cookies and login-based user targeting have now become key marketing elements, and new platforms are continuing to evolve and emerge, all marketers should be identifying people across multiple platforms — not just tracking various click patterns.

customer experience retail

Report: BOPIS Use Soars While Demand for Curbside Pickup Declines

Share this:

More than half of retailers (54%) are now offering BOPIS (buy-online, pick-up in-store) services, but just 31% are showing store inventory availability online. One third of retail brands have a mobile app, and an impressive 76% are accepting contactless payments in-store. 

Demand for Ad Buying Diversification Juices OOH Market

Share this:

With fewer consumers spending time at home, traditional website banner advertising is becoming less relevant. Meanwhile, particularly in large cities, like Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas, investments in OOH campaigns are on the rise.