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GroupM, Incremental Partner on Neutral RMN Solutions
Fragmentation and poor measurement create a ton of inefficiencies for clients and agencies trying to plan and optimize retail-media investments. To address this issue, GroupM has expanded its retail (aka commerce) media offering and formed a partnership with Incremental, which provides neutral retail media solutions. The announcement was made on June 17 at the Cannes […]
Leap-ing Into a New Retail Model: An Interview With Amish Tolia
We’ve all seen founders with great ideas and/or products take the big step to brick-and-mortar stores and then crash and burn due to various factors. Amish Tolia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Leap, a company that has disrupted the traditional commercial broker/landlord/tenant model for retail brands. Tolia founded the company about six years ago […]
How to Pick the “Right” Retail Media: A Perspective from Skai
Nich Weinheimer is the EVP of Strategy at Skai, an omnichannel advertising platform focused on walled garden media. These networks (walled garden media) are their own ecosystem and keep their customer data close. As reported recently, major MULO (multi-location) retailers are taking a page from the Google and Amazon playbook and developing their own advertising ecosystems. […]
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Meeting the Heightened Demand for Timely Local Information
With businesses closing temporarily due to government mandate, or changing their offerings or hours significantly in response to the pandemic, consumers turned to local search too with a heightened, even sometimes critical need to access the latest information. This heightened demand has not disappeared.
How Digital Marketing Can Spur Tax Refund Shopping
Although expenses are on the rise and saving is top of mind, shoppers still want to make purchases and plan fun experiences. Well-timed emails, easy and convenient online purchases, enticing discounts, and new technology will entice careful spenders to indulge in life’s little luxuries.
Location-Based Marketing Association: Precisely Launches a Property Graph
In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association discusses Precisely launching a property graph, PlaceSense and Senozon creating a European partnership, Gucci and Sandbox launching a virtual store in the metaverse, and Qmetrix and Via Guide teaming up on an AI-driven airport checkpoint system.
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InfoSum Launches Platform Sigma
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
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
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.
GumGum and JW Player Partner to Bring Contextual Targeting and Viewability to Video
A new partnership between the digital advertising platform GumGum and JW Player, a video platform for broadcasters and publishers, could be a game changer for brands and agencies looking for deeper insights in video environments.
3 Predictive Analytics Models for Retailers
Here’s how brands can understand the predictive analytics models available to them and determine what they need to improve their business.
How alice + olivia Uses Customer Insights to Deepen Loyalty
Rising customer expectations have retail brands working overtime this summer, and alice + olivia is no exception. The luxury fashion brand is launching a new program designed to provide its in-store associates with tools to deliver more consistent and relevant shopper experiences as a way to increase brand excitement and loyalty.
How Netflix’s Entry into Advertising Will Shape the Future of TV Marketing
Netflix’s imminent dive into the world of advertising will initiate the video advertising industry’s biggest event since the rise of TikTok. Curt Larson, chief product officer at omnichannel supply side platform Sharethrough, believes Netflix will push the whole TV ad industry forward.
Report: Consumers Accept Higher Prices But Demand Better Customer Service
According to a new report from the conversation intelligence platform Invoca, rising inflation has consumers rethinking high-value purchases, like cars and home improvement projects. However, the majority of consumers say they’re willing to pay those higher prices if it means getting better customer service from their favorite brands.
How Marketers Can Respond to Price Concerns
Consumers are feeling price conscious after months of historic inflation and a looming recession that some say the US has already entered. What exactly are consumers feeling, and how are marketers to respond? Ted Rogers, chief revenue officer at Digital River, checked in with Street Fight to share results from the company’s latest consumer survey.
Is Marketing Around Tentpole Moments Enough?
A marketing strategy that focuses only on so-called “tentpole” moments misses out on a significant new part of the media and marketing landscape today: viral moments.
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