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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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Google Local Search Trends I: Personalization
Though it’s not always easy to find the common threads in Google’s complex evolution of the local search consumer experience, some themes do stand out, such as the drive toward increasingly personalized search results, which I’ll be covering in this initial entry in the series. Fortunately for marketers, personalization, along with the other themes I’ll cover, offers numerous opportunities to outpace the competition and convert more searchers into buyers. A better understanding of these emerging trends will help marketers prioritize their efforts.
Concrete Steps to Prepare for a Cookieless Future
The biggest change for digital marketers who’ve grown comfortable with cookies is realizing that the future may not be near as turnkey and automated as it is now. Executing campaigns without cookies will require more hands-on strategizing and monitoring of campaigns, and it will force marketers to be proactive when it comes to culling third-party data providers and ad-tech partners that rely too heavily on cookies for their data and analytics.
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3 Benefits of Scenario-Based Innovation
Scenario-based innovation takes mega trends and industry-specific trends and translates them into future scenarios. These scenarios define future states – for example, over the next five to eight years – to identify potential long-term ideas. Those ideas are then typically used to create a concrete business model and a tangible action plan.
Why Content Is Replacing Clicks as the Cornerstone of Digital Marketing
While the click-oriented advertising model is not going away and has its place, it is becoming more complicated with the influx of privacy changes that make targeting and measurement harder. As a result, VRTCAL Founder and President Todd Wooten makes the argument that content is king again.
LBMA: Walmart Licenses Delivery Tech
In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Digital Envoy acquiring X-Mode, Walmart making its delivery tech available to other retailers, IZEA and Place IQ partnering on influencer marketing campaigns, and TikTok using OOH to help unsigned artists.
Back to School 2021: Supply Chain Shortages and High Demand
Preparing for back-to-school shopping this year, retailers faced a tremendous challenge: anticipating consumer needs at a time when Covid case numbers are shifting month to month and the conditions of in-person learning remain unclear. Add supply chain squeezes and rising consumer expectations, and BTS, which is supposed to be among many retailers’ best seasonal events, risks proving disastrous.
Delta Variant Leads to Shift in Consumer Behavior — Marketers Respond
With Covid-19 Delta variant cases on the rise, social distancing and sanitation have once again become top priorities for consumers. According to new data by Avionos, consumers are growing increasingly wary of shopping in physical stores due to the rise of the Delta variant. Among those consumers who shopped with a new brand during the pandemic, almost one-third cited safe in-store experiences as a top reason for choosing that brand.
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