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How To Sustain Media Buys in Black-Owned Media Street Fight

How To Sustain Media Buys in Black-Owned Media

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No single source seems able to pinpoint just how much brands allocate in dollars to ad inventory on Black-owned media in the U.S. But everyone seems to agree it should be more. This article cites media tracker Maven, which says there are upwards of 2,500 diverse-owned publishers alone and that 35% of those are Black-owned. […]

The MULO Dozen: April Brands in Review Street Fight

The MULO Dozen: April Brands in Review

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Another April …another 12 innovations, booms, busts, and leadership changes in the MULO (multi-location) world. Retailers and restaurants are always scaling, shrinking, and experimenting with new innovation, footprints, business models, and technologies. In addition to covering many of them throughout the month, these end-of-month wrap-ups are designed to give you even more news and ideas. Speaking […]

BUST: A Timeless Ice Cream Brand Melts Street Fight

BUST: A Timeless Ice Cream Brand Melts

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Oberweis Ice Cream and Dairy was founded in 1927 and is an iconic Midwest retail brand. It recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is in the process of reorganizing. The company operates 43 locations in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri. While other ice cream brands thrive, Oberweis owes about $4 million to 20 creditors […]

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The Future of Customer Experience is Hybrid

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A post-pandemic future gives businesses the chance to evaluate how to best do business and what exactly consumers will value. Brick-and-mortar businesses have an incredible opportunity to redefine what the new local hybrid experience looks like.

Local Platforms Promote Integrity with Consumer Confidence at Risk

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Nextdoor is the latest local platform to publish what it calls a Transparency Report, designed to offer information to the public about efforts made to maintain an online community that is free from problematic content. In Nextdoor’s case, the focus is on reducing incidents of hate speech and incivility in order to promote healthy community interaction.

Why and How Businesses Should Embrace Product-Led Growth

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For SaaS organizations especially, PLG can open up new revenue channels, giving you a competitive advantage by making it easy for customers to understand the value of your product. PLG becomes an efficient, no-touch way to scale revenue, affording customers the ability to self-serve and self-select without being weighed down by a traditional sales cycle.

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In-Store Marketplace Creates Single Integration Point for Retail Media Platforms

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In-Store Marketplace is a first-of-its-kind solution where media service providers like Vibenomics, Mood Media, Sellr Technologies, FuelMedia TV, and WaterStation Technology provide a consistent, single point of integration for in-store retail media platforms. The solution also enables retail media to easily include a variety of digital audio and display inventory.

Consumers Seek Brands with Authenticity, Aligned Values

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Focusing on selling to customers, rather than serving them holistically, is a trap that many multi-location brands have fallen into while they struggle to find the right balance between promotionally-driven and content-driven engagement.

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.

How Colors Affect Social Ad Performance

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Marketers obsess over channel allocation and messaging. But sometimes, an ad’s effectiveness can come down to a factor seemingly as simple as color.

New Hires at tvScientific, Emodo, and Impact.com

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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 tvScientific, Emodo, and impact.com.

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.

OneScreen.ai Launches the ‘Yellow Pages of the OOH Industry’

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Rapid expansion in out-of-home advertising is making it harder for buyers and sellers to manage inventory and sales cycles. Now, with the launch of its new public directory, OneScreen.ai is hoping to provide industry-wide transparency and standards to enable streamlined media buying and selling.

Ad Tech and Privacy

InfoSum Launches Platform Sigma

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The data collaboration company InfoSum launched Platform Sigma last week to expand its ability to help clients navigate privacy-safe first-party data sharing and activation.

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.