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OAAA CEO Anna Bager on the Pace of OOH Innovation
Advertising Week 2023 in New York, and one of the sessions held on Oct. 17 focused on the advantages and the challenges involved in OOH (out-of-home) advertising. “What Keeps You Up at Night? A Wake-Up Call for Brands Facing Fraud and Fatigue,” (available on replay) saw Anna Bager, President and CEO of the OAAA (Out […]
Product to MULO Brand? An Interview with Melissa Tavss
Boozy ice cream? Cheers! Say no more! Melissa Tavss is the Founder and CEO of Tipsy Scoop, liquor-infused ice cream. She is taking her popular product on the road into her branded brick-and-mortar multi-location (MULO) stores. We recently sat down with her to discuss her journey from founder to franchisor. How and when did you get the […]
Report: Advertisers Lean-In on Retail Data
Retail data is changing the game for U.S. advertisers, presenting an incredible opportunity for those interested in closing the loop between digital ad exposures and actual sales. That’s according to a new report by The Trade Desk, an independent platform for digital advertising, which found that 91% of U.S. advertisers plan to maintain or increase […]
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How Human-to-Human Marketing Can Counter the Labor Shortage and Drive Q4 Growth
In times of economic uncertainty, local communities look to support their own, ensuring businesses stay open and neighborhoods stay strong. What most brands miss is that they are a legitimate part of the community fabric and can leverage their place in that fabric as a marketing and sales asset.
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5 Headless Commerce Solutions for Retailers
Headless commerce is one of the latest innovations to hit the retail industry, offering both online and offline retailers the opportunity to decouple the purchasing and payments experience from their websites while also giving shoppers the ability to complete transactions from almost anywhere.
Cidewalk Expands to Bring Mobile Marketing to Local Businesses Overseas
In response to growing demand for digital marketing services outside the U.S., Cidewalk is extending its platform reach to cover all countries. CEO Venkat Kolluri says the decision to expand globally was made in response to the growing demand from businesses for lightweight, easy-to-use digital marketing channels to target consumers online at any location.
LBMA: Etsy Launches a Virtual AR Showroom
In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Uber Eats rolling out pumpkin delivery in 3 cities, Lancome debuting a virtual pop-up store in the UK with ByondXR, Reveal Mobile acquiring MIRA, Kantar and Route joining forces on OOH measurement, and Esty launching a virtual AR showroom with The Etsy House.
Stop Flying Blind: Why Closed Feedback Loops Matter More Than Ever
These changes have a lot of marketers feeling like they’re flying blind, but you don’t have to stay lost in the fog. Instead, you can use automated surveys to take your customers’ pulse, establish a solid baseline, and execute a closed-loop feedback strategy to continuously improve. This approach will give you the key metrics you need to consistently deliver a great customer experience in three steps.
Bluefin Wants to Devalue Your Data
For those not in the know, talk of a company wanting to devalue their company’s data might inspire fears of ruthless competitors coming to steal a precious resource. But in fact, Bluefin, the company whose core mission is devaluing data, does not want to steal your information; it wants to shield your data from that very outcome.
What Becomes of Brand Identity in a World of Changing IDs?
Branding is in the eye of the beholder. Or, as Al Ries and Jack Trout’s classic marketing text Positioning, the Battle for your Mind puts it, a brand’s positioning is the space it occupies in the mind of the prospect. Decades of the world’s best marketing leaders and agency pros have rallied around this definition. If it’s true, what happens to measuring brand identity and positioning with the dramatic shift in one of the best attribution tools marketers have ever known?
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