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The MULO Dozen: January Brands in Review

The MULO Dozen: January Brands in Review

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2024 is off to a fast start! As MULO (multi-location) retailers, restaurants, and service businesses head into a new year, they face new challenges and opportunities. And, of course, “The Big Game,” when brands get to flex their creative and digital muscle. Here’s what we saw this month. Have news? Please e-mail me. Fridays is […]

Empowering Brick-and-Mortar Businesses with Foot-Traffic Analytics for Effective OOH

Empowering Brick-and-Mortar Businesses with Foot-Traffic Analytics for Effective OOH

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In today’s competitive marketplace, brick-and-mortar businesses constantly seek innovative strategies to attract and retain customers. Recognizing this need, DOmedia, in partnership with location analytics leader Placer.ai, has launched PeopleToMySpot.com—a innovative website tailored to help local marketers and business owners harness the power of foot-traffic analytics to enhance their out-of-home (OOH) advertising efforts. The collaboration between […]

More Evidence Online Advertising Finished Strong

More Evidence Online Advertising Finished Strong

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When Tinuiti released its Digital Ads Benchmark Report for Q4 2023 on Jan. 25, the findings offered still more proof that the year finished strong, at least for online advertising.  “While we did expect stronger growth in Q4 2023 as the ad market continues to recover from 2022, there were still questions heading into the […]

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Location-Based Marketing Association: Vendasta Acquires MatchCraft

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association discusses Catalina partnering with Place IQ, Japanese dating agency Matching Advisor Press using vending machines to find matches, Seattle launching an NFT Museum, and Here Technologies launching Indoor Map as a service.

5 Tips for Maximizing Your Performance CTV Strategy

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From an advertising standpoint, OTT has some inherent advantages, especially for performance marketers. In the linear world, advertisers have to find programs or channels that over-index against the desired audience. On OTT, this audience filtering is done pre-bid. That means if you want to reach audiences who are in-market for a product or service, you can use real data to reach that exact audience with very little waste because of the dynamic ad insertion.

Valid Consent: Building Trust and Demonstrating Compliance

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Let’s explore how marketers, privacy professionals, and data managers can work together to obtain valid proof of consent, and why it’s critical to activate consent, preferences, and first-party data in a way that honors consumer privacy.

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The Future-Proof, Full-Funnel Approach to Thriving in a Cookieless World

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Building strong relationships and encouraging customers to continually engage with the brand will go a long way toward building out first-party data collection and management. But how? As the cookieless world draws near, brands and marketers are looking for alternatives, and the answer lies in a future-proof, full-funnel approach.

E-Commerce Retailers See Opportunity in Secondhand Market

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Call it secondhand shopping, circular fashion, or the “new to you” business. The resale market for brand name goods has never been hotter.

Creating the Next Business Model for Content Delivery

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The creator economy is here to stay. Over the last 10 years, millions of people have embraced their creative abilities to find new ways to make money — not just by making videos, writing blogs, or recording podcasts, but by creating deep connections with other people through the convergence of technology and art.

How Retailers Are Grappling with Supply Chain Disruption

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Few economic issues have persisted throughout the pandemic with the intensity of supply chain disruption. But how is the issue affecting retailers as we head into the third full year of the pandemic, which first disrupted global business in spring 2020?

3 Ways for Mobile App Marketers to Earn Positive Reviews

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User feedback is a puzzle, and one piece that always seems to be missing from the brand side is engagement. User reviews and consistent customer experiences are the keys to a loyal user base. What’s more, reviews left without replies can be more devastating than no review at all or a negative one.

Mobile Apps Show Strong User and Engagement Growth

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Privacy headwinds as well as the advent of the metaverse and a new wave of hardware have led many to question the future of mobile’s place at the center of digital marketing. But according to a new report by mobile marketing measurement company Adjust, mobile is experiencing significant growth despite headwinds.

Did You Get That? Optimizing Marketing with Speech Recognition

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So, where specifically are the opportunities for marketers to combat forthcoming challenges related to speech recognition and drive business value? Speech recognition can help marketers collaborate more efficiently, share insights with customers more clearly, and get time back by automating manual labor.

5 Big Marketing Opportunities for Multi-Location Brands

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This year’s is the fourth annual LMBR report; the data used in the analysis was provided by data partner Places Scout. Those interested in the full results can check out the report here. In this article, I’ll highlight just a few of the key takeaways for multi-location marketers.

Camera IQ Helps Brands Leverage AR on TikTok

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Camera IQ, an AR creation tool, launched support this week for brands using AR on TikTok. Camera IQ is already helping brands and publishers such as Cartoon Network and Smashbox creative native AR experiences on TikTok to captivate users and create shareable social experiences.

5 Predictions for Influencer Marketing

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It is getting hard to tell one influencer marketing platform apart from another, a problem for brands questioning where to go and investors, M&A actors, and industry watchdogs wondering what really distinguishes them. To wit, I caught up with Pierre Cassuto, global chief commercial officer at influencer marketing platform Humanz, to understand how those of us looking at the space from the outside should be judging its many players.