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Why November 7th Could Be Your Most Important Day of 4th Quarter
What are you doing on November 7th? If you work in a MULO (multi-location) business, you should only be in New York City at the Place conference. Why? Leaders from retail, restaurants, and other multi-location categories will be there, along with the agencies and technology companies that help take their marketing to the next level. Street […]
Brands Get Enhanced Metrics to Measure Against Data Compliance
Does the world need another set of data compliance metrics for programmatic media campaigns? Executives at Compliant, a compliance technology company, and the contextual advertising startup Peer39 are betting on it. The two firms are partnering on a set of data compliance metrics for programmatic media campaigns meant to address the need for new standards […]
The MULO Dozen: September in Review
Welcome to a new monthly section of Street Fight! Every 30 days (or so), we’ll be recapping some of the highlights across MULO (multi-location) brands — retailers, restaurants, c-stores, service businesses, and any other establishment that has multiple locations (or aspires to scale to that level), as well as the agencies that help them flourish. […]
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Hot Vax Summer Means It’s Prime Time for DOOH
With consumers set for a summer of supercharged spending, advertisers are looking to digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising to push their brands in front of people enjoying their newfound freedom out of the house.
A Marketer’s Guide to Creating Holistic Cross-Channel CX
Like channels themselves, a strong CX depends on multiple technologies that work together — and it all begins with data. As a customer engages with a brand, regardless of where, when, or in what order they do so, everything in that holistic experience must be frictionless.
Roundup: Mapping Tech Evolves, Adding Third Dimension and Pedestrian POV
To define the current state and future trajectory of mapping, we’ve rounded up top industry voices from Foursquare and NextNav as well as Street Fight’s own Mike Boland.
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5 Live Chat Platforms with Location Intelligence
As mobile interactions become the new norm, more retailers and brands are seeking out mobile-friendly live chat solutions that leverage real-time customer behaviors, like locations and progress within the shopping lifecycle, for more personalized SMS chats and in-app messages.
Killi Launches Unveil, a One-stop Shop for Consumers to View and Edit Their Data
Killi, the consent-first consumer data marketplace, launched Unveil, a product iteration that will allow consumers to view and edit the data companies have collected about them.
The Covid-19 Pandemic at One Year: How Payments Have Changed Forever
The payments industry will move forward from the seismic shifts in behavior we’ve seen to new puzzles: how to make a card top of wallet, how to expand the on-demand economy to new product groups, and how the Buy Now, Pay Later space evolves in time. But the changes we’ve seen will impact the course of the industry for years to come. How merchants and payment providers adapt to these changes will have a key part to play in how they recover from the impact of the pandemic.
How Audio OOH Can Withstand Emerging Privacy Regulations
Audio OOH enables advertisers to reach the right audience, and reporting tools can help them decipher how their audio ad influences a customer’s path to purchase. This type of product-level transactional data will be crucial as advertisers continue to clash with harsh but growing privacy regulations.
BeOp Launches in US, Pointing to Contextual Campaigns’ Resurgence
Is contextual ad targeting the answer to our cookieless future? As brand advertisers plan for a world without third-party cookies, they’re homing in on contextual ad platforms as a possible solution to their advertising woes. That push is leading to the development and growth of a number of platforms focused on contextual, conversational, and cookieless advertising.
FocalPoint Raises $8m to Improve GPS Accuracy
In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers TmrO app creating connections between freelancers and the music and film industries, FocalPoint raising £6 million to improve GPS accuracy, Chipotle investing in driverless company Nuro, and Whole Foods tapping into AR cosmetics try-on tools.
Innovation Brief: Yum Brands, Discord, and Robots
Welcome to Street Fight’s new Innovation Brief series. On a semi-weekly basis, it aggregates and analyzes happenings from across the technology and media spheres. This week, we look at text-to-order QSR, Microsoft’s Discord ambitions, and Boston Dynamics’ latest.
What Substack’s Success Portends for Digital Marketing
Substack’s success points to the power of email as a means of owning an audience, which will only grow in importance as privacy restrictions proliferate.
Street Fight’s April Theme: Targeting Location
When huddling to determine April’s focus, it was evident that one topic flows naturally from March’s privacy theme: location targeting. Indeed, among all of the subdivisions of privacy reform, location-based data collection is one of the most sensitive. And it’s where many data collection restrictions will focus, such as Apple’s iOS location tracking notifications.
The Privacy Endgame
There is an endgame that can put a stop to drip-drip privacy changes. A reality in which large corporations go back to not knowing the intimate details of their consumers’ lives and are still able to use technology to provide better user experiences through hyper-personalized engagement. A reality in which consumers can enjoy personalized experiences at exactly the right moment without broadcasting their location to anyone. A reality in which it is technology, not fine print, that protects both consumers and corporations.
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