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Leap-ing Into a New Retail Model: An Interview With Amish Tolia Street Fight

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 Street Fight

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. […]

Placer.ai and TapClicks Partner for Deeper Marketing Analytics Street Fight

Placer.ai and TapClicks Partner for Deeper Marketing Analytics

Placer.ai, the leader in location analytics, and TapClicks, the leading provider of Smart Marketing solutions, have partnered to integrate real-time foot traffic data into TapClicks’ omni-channel reporting platform. This collaboration advances the ability for marketers to gain deeper insights into consumer behavior and thereby more conclusively prove the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. In conversation with […]

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The Power of Choice is Rekindling the Connection Between Consumers and Marketers

As with any change, opportunities to respond are plenty, and they start with control. The simple gesture of offering an end user the ability to exert at least some level of control over their advertising experiences is a step in the right direction.

It’s Time to Leverage the Entire Digital World in Your Marketing Strategy

On any given day, a person will switch between scrolling social media, listening to their favourite playlist, browsing products online, bingeing their favourite show on a connected TV (CTV), and more. This is why in 2022, advertisers should consider leveraging a multi-channel strategy. Marketing across several channels means an advertiser is casting a wider net and expanding the potential for reaching the right audience in the right moment.

Expert Roundup II on Personalization and Zero-Party Data

Street Fight’s theme this month is personalization and data parties: a current obsession of adtech players as well as the advertisers they serve. Businesses are figuring out how to provide relevant experiences to customers online with comparatively little data at their disposal; we’re here to cover the evolution of their struggle.

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How Marketers Can Engage Generation Alpha

Just as marketers have finally started to connect with Millennials and Generation Z, there’s a new challenge on the horizon: engaging Generation Alpha. 

Vibrant Media Launches Contextual Advertising Solution to Increase Targeting Granularity

Advertisers are clamoring for more contextual targeting solutions. Publishers are, too. With demand continuing to accelerate — and as data privacy regulations grow stricter throughout many parts of the U.S. — Vibrant Media is launching a new sell-side contextual solution that allows publishers to automate the process of adding and maintaining relevant key-values in the programmatic framework.

TripleLift Partners with White Ops to Fight Ad Fraud

Review Extortion Reveals Strengths and Weaknesses of Local Ecosystem

The impact of review fraud and extortion has been devastating for restaurant owners and managers, who are fully aware that they live and die by reviews.

5 In-Store Mobile Clienteling Apps to Watch in 2022

As the retail technology space continues to evolve, here are five in-store mobile clienteling apps poised to reshape the physical retail landscape in 2022 and beyond.

How to Use Relevant Customer Data to Drive Personalized Experiences

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have made the connection of data sources possible so brands can execute practical personalized CX approaches.

Retailers Look to Scale Prime Day Results Across External Channels

The question retail executives should be asking themselves now is how they can scale Prime Day results across other channels where they can maintain control of brand and margin. Prime Day delivers a desirable consumer experience at scale, and Ramos says other retailers should try to scale this methodology across their external performance channels if they see value. 

Location-Based Marketing Association: McDonald’s Gets Personal at the Drive Thru

In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Verve Group partnering with Getty Images, Snapchat adding Ghost Trails for your friends’ location history, McDonald’s getting more personalized at the drive thru by recognizing car license plates, and SafeGraph partnering with PredictHQ for location intelligence.

Marketers Turn to Creative to Fill Advertising Gap Left by Personal Data

The data privacy movement has triggered a massive shift in digital advertising away from the use of personally identifiable information to serve consumers targeted ads. But if advertisers are not depending on customer information to drive effective campaigns, what will fill the gap? One X factor could be the strength of creative.

Is Data the Key to Surviving the Great Resignation?

To navigate these challenging times, businesses need to create more efficient hiring processes and outline ways to effectively retain the talent they have already hired. Accomplishing both goals will require the use of quality data sources. Here are some ways that data can help companies survive The Great Resignation. 

Retailers Prepare for Increased Cyber Attacks During Prime Day

Cyber security experts are warning of increased phishing, ransomware, and social engineering attacks during Amazon’s Prime Day event this week, as more hackers take advantage of the event’s popularity to send credential harvesting emails to unsuspecting consumers. With the frequency of these attacks on the rise, multi-location retailers are beefing up their own digital security protocols and using external marketing channels to distribute warnings to their customers.