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Why Emotional Marketing Offers Greater Resonance Now Than Ever

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With the economy in a state of flux, and federal interest hikes constantly on consumers’ minds, it’s no surprise that marketers are choosing to be more selective about where they spend their budgets. One area that isn’t facing a downturn is the e-commerce app industry, where marketing spend for attracting new shoppers to apps is […]

UserTesting Integrates with Contentsquare, Links User Feedback to Actual Experiences

UserTesting Integrates with Contentsquare, Links User Feedback to Actual Experiences

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UserTesting, a technology firm that helps businesses get rapid customer feedback, is partnering with the digital experience platform Contentsquare to make it easier for businesses to gauge the performance of their digital experiences. The partnership, announced just this week, allows UserTesting and Contentsquare clients to unlock additional customer experience insights across all digital properties, and […]

Multi-Location Marketing Mistakes That Could Tank SEO Success

Multi-Location Marketing Mistakes That Could Tank SEO Success

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As a marketing professional, you probably know how to avoid common industry pitfalls. But even if you think you’ve got a foolproof strategy, you can always count on Google to throw another curveball your way. And if you’re not thinking ahead, you could easily fall behind. With that, consider these five commonly overlooked marketing mistakes […]

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Ad Tech and Privacy

Anonymized, Localized Shopper Data Offers a New Beginning for Brand Marketers

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Rather than fear upcoming changes, marketers should welcome the steps being taken to safeguard consumer data privacy and recognize the opportunity to leverage the massively rich, privacy-compliant consumer data sets that are still available to them.

Using Business Insights to Complement Automation and Optimize Search Strategy

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With automation leveling the playing field, marketers need to find new ways to use their proprietary business intelligence to keep an edge over their competitors in search. Marketers can add immense value to automation, maximizing its ability to drive strong performance.

LBMA: Verve Group’s Acquisition of Beemray

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Instagram rolling out a product called “drops,” Intent IQ launching a new opt-in data sharing platform, NielsenIQ acquiring Label Insight, Simpleview investing in Stroll, and Verve Group acquiring Beemray.

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Pivoting Toward the New Consumer Experience: The 2021 Brand Innovation Survey

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Most marketers have accepted that they are in the process of defining a new purchase journey that will persist into the future.

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Gowalla Returns with AR Location Lenses

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers the GroundLevel Insights and Town of Whitby Project, Vodafone rolling out centimeter-level tracking, GPS tracking for dementia patients with GTX Corp solution, and Gowalla coming back with AR location lenses.

Expert Roundup: How Will Retail Transform in 2021? Part II

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In part II of our retail expert roundup, we cover mixed reality’s role in retail, data, and privacy compliance, and how retail can recover and rebound in 2021.

Retailers Use AI to Rebuild the Customer Experience

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Retailers are using artificial intelligence to enhance the customer experience and also run their own back-end operations more efficiently.

How Agencies Can Thrive as Data Restrictions, and Walled Gardens, Gain Strength

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Agencies must figure out how to help clients navigate the new privacy era of digital ad targeting. They can thrive despite new advantages for walled gardens.

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The Convenience Consumer Is Here to Stay

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The convenience consumer values brands that meet them where they are, allowing them to act on their own terms. Tech allows retailers to cater to these customers.

Yelp Launches New Takeout Management Tools for Restaurants

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Yelp announced that it would be evolving its Waitlist system and introducing new features designed to streamline restaurants’ front-of-house operations.

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The Customer Touchpoints Businesses Aren’t Thinking Enough About

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Businesses can’t ignore that more and more of their success is linked to apps and services they don’t own. They need to get a view of customer touchpoints.

One Year Later: How Covid Hit Ad Tech and How It’s Recovering

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Covid bludgeoned ad spend, cut budgets, and forced ad tech providers to get crafty to survive. On top of that, 2021 is throwing its own curveballs, especially related to privacy, as Apple and Google downgrade tracking.

How Apple’s IDFA/ATT Change Will Affect App Publishers

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If Apple doesn’t change course, we’re in for a possibly very humbling year for SMB app publishers and an App Store that advantages the largest publishers with the biggest wallets