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Emplifi’s Platform Drives Social Commerce

Emplifi’s Platform Drives Social Commerce

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When Emplifi upgraded its social commerce cloud last month, the goal was to empower brands to create more shoppable content across social media channels. The upgrades help bridge the gap between social media marketing and ecommerce to drive conversions and revenue for clients, the company said. Zarnaz Arlia, CMO of Emplifi, said the upgrades couldn’t […]

What Comes Next for Retail Media 2.0?

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We all know where retail media has been. The channel has a history that dates back to at least 2012, when Amazon became a pioneer in the space and launched its first retail media network. That set off a chain of events that forever changed adtech as we know it. Walmart followed suit, with the […]

Toys ‘R’ Us is Not Playing Around With its Retail Re-launch

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Setting what might be an example of a future retail model, mega toy brand Toys ‘R’ Us is emerging from bankruptcy with a new retail strategy involving airports and cruise ships. Called the “air, land, and sea” initiative, the big box MULO (multi-location) brand is opening up to 24 flagship stores and locations in airports […]

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3 Benefits of Scenario-Based Innovation

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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.

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LBMA: Walmart Licenses Delivery Tech

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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.

Expert Roundup: Google Delayed Cookies’ Death, But It’s Still Time to Embrace Privacy

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Google said it would not nix the third-party cookie until 2023. But these business leaders argue it’s still time for marketers to embrace tracking alternatives.

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Survey: Retail Loyalty Strengthened Among Millennials Post-Pandemic

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Brand loyalty is changing, and it might not necessarily be for the worst. Despite dire predictions earlier in the pandemic that consumers would be more likely to opt for alternative brands, a new survey by the location intelligence firm Ubimo paints a very different picture.

The Grand Reopening: DOOH Strategies to Capitalize on Lifted Restrictions

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DOOH screens can be found in most of the locations that consumers were restricted from over the past year — such as bars, restaurants, malls and movie theaters — as well as essential places that consumers continued to visit, including convenience stores, gas stations, subways, grocery stores, and more. Now that people are returning in droves to these environments, marketers are using a variety of DOOH strategies to reach consumers. Let’s review those tactics.

Field Day Leverages an Uber-Style, Human-to-Human Marketplace for Local Marketing

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An Uber for local marketing, Field Day connects brands, including current clients Panera Bread, Blaze Pizza, Equinox, and about 50 others, with “brand ambassadors”: locals who speak to the brands’ targets in their home neighborhoods in order to increase awareness and drive adoption.

Outsourcing Omnichannel Operations: How to Gear Up for the Next Peak Season

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The biggest barrier to outsourcing e-commerce operations is identifying a provider who can be trusted to handle a company’s brand and their customer experience. The chosen provider needs to be able to answer the following questions to a retailer’s satisfaction.

How to Develop High-Performing Facebook Groups Communities To Fuel Your Brand’s Growth

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Facebook Groups are not just for nosy neighbors to tattle-tale on loud parties or podcast fans to debate the latest true crime controversy. When launched correctly, FB groups are a huge opportunity for brands and businesses to build customer loyalty, nurture relationships, and even gain insight from their followers.

LBMA: Yelp’s Audiences Platform

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Yelp launching their Audiences platform, AirBnB partnering with What3Words for staycations, Billboards in Paris getting brighter for the “Fearless Night” safety campaign, and imageHOLDERS launching touchless kiosks with Ultraleap technology.

Ad Tech and Privacy

Expert Roundup: The Rise of First-Party Data

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Experts from Digilant, Influ2, Infutor, Mobivity, and Stirista weigh in on the future of data-driven advertising as privacy changes accrue. In particular, the crew discusses the increasing importance of first-party data and targeting methods not tied to cookies.

Verizon Media Offers Opt-Out of Targeted Ads Across Its Network

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Verizon Media is partnering with the nonprofit Network Advertising Initiative, integrating its advertising ID with the NAI’s “Audience Matched Advertising Opt-Out” platform to allow users across the Verizon Media ecosystem to opt out of targeted ads.

Household Targeting Emerges as Alternative to Individualized Behavioral Ads

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Jon Schulz, Chief Marketing Officer at Viant Technology, checked in with Street Fight to lay out the benefits and drawbacks of targeting methods offering advertisers alternatives to one-to-one behavioral ads.

8 Ways Your CX Can Increase Revenue

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Here are the eight ways you can utilize low-code platforms to make customer interactions frictionless and digitize critical areas of your business.