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Multi-Location Marketers Use Nextdoor Business Awards to Drive Awareness

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As Nextdoor brings back its Neighborhood Favorites Awards program for the sixth summer, multi-location marketers are looking at how they can capitalize on the social attention to drive business and increase awareness among consumers in their local communities.

What Younger Shoppers Demand from Digital Experiences

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The customer experience company Verint conducted research to determine just what younger shoppers value in digital experiences. Street Fight connected with Jenni Palocsik, VP, marketing insights, experience, and enablement at Verint, to discuss the company’s findings.

CommentSold Launches White-Label Live Selling Platform Videeo

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CommentSold, a live selling platform, launched Videeo this morning, a white-label live video commerce technology for enterprises. Videeo will help retailers create native-looking live shopping experiences at scale by easily integrating CommentSold’s technology into their existing ecommerce stack.

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Three Methods to Deploy Foreground Data Effectively

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For those of us in the location data industry, we must adapt to the new world we live in and find solutions to solve the age-old problems our clients face. Foreground data (data that is captured only when a user has an app open) has the potential to be just as effective and insightful and can offer even greater insights into how people interact in the physical world.

Companies conducting location analysis can use three methods to help keep their solutions robust in this next era of location data; layer in foreground apps, reduce noise, and capitalize on inferences.  

Risks to Consider When Using Public Wi-Fi

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The next time you stop somewhere to grab a coffee, you should think twice before taking out your phone and looking for available networks. Public Wi-Fi may be a strong positive overall, but there are dangers inherent to using it, and you need to be aware of them. That’s why we’re going to cover them in this piece — so let’s run through them.

Location Weekly: Google Maps Update; NextNav’s $120M Round for Geolocation Services

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The Location-Based Marketing Association covers Home Depot piloting kiosks from Slyce to locate products in store, Google updating Maps with tips, transit, and AR, Air Canada enabling customers to use PayPal, NextNav raising $120M for 3D geolocation services in U.S., Korea’s Lotte going hi-tech to steal customers from e-commerce, and India’s NavIC possibly one day replacing GPS.

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Google and the On-SERP Experience: We’re Just Gettin’ Warmed Up

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The introduction of a new Knowledge Graph layer in the form of “Topics” indicates to me that Google’s latest efforts in this arena will extend in two directions beyond Local entities. I see these linkages extending all the way up the search journey to initial consideration and even further down the funnel beyond Local entities.

Biggest Tech Trend for eCommerce in 2019: People-Based Identity

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If people-based identity is the new lifeblood of eCommerce, then the identity graph is its beating heart. First- and second-party data keep the heart healthy and strong, while third-party data is anemic and can ultimately lead to system failure.

Relevnt Aims to Integrate Local and Social Media on Community-Based Website

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Local and social media, produced by individuals and news sites alike, have a new place to hang out, and it’s called Relevnt. Launched late last year, the app “is like Yelp meets Reddit for social media,” said Winder Hughes, the company’s CEO and founder.

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Releases Attribution Tool, The Cutting Edge of E-Commerce: People-Based ID

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Facebook Attribution Now Available to All Advertisers… Biggest Tech Trend for eCommerce in 2019: People-Based Identity… Privacy, Accuracy Hinder Voice Commands…

New Hires at S4M, Uberall, Tremor Video

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Every two weeks, we round up new hires in the hyperlocal marketing and media space. This week also brings new hires at Vendasta and American Hometown Publishing.

Raise Report: Frontify, Instacart, Machinify Score New Funding

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Every two or three weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week includes new funding for Journal, Mapify, Netlify, Paperspace.

Street Fight Daily: GMB Insights Adds Branded Search Reporting; 2/3 Big Businesses Invest in Local Media

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Google My Business Insights Adds Branded Search Reporting… New Hires at S4M, Uberall, Tremor Video… BIA: Two-Thirds of Businesses with 500+ Employees Invest in Local Media Ad Platforms….

No Wallet, No Problem. Yombu Scans Your Fingerprint for Payments, Loyalty Rewards

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Credit cards made it possible to leave cash behind. Then, digital wallets like ApplePay let you leave home without your wallet. Now, Washington, D.C., startup Yombu is making it possible to pay and get access to membership rewards with just your fingerprint.

Local News Gets New Resource Center With Special Focus on Social Media

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A Local News Resource Center to give publishers direct expertise on the “challenges and opportunities” of social media and other issues that confront the embattled industry has been set up at the Local Media Association.

Street Fight Daily: Facebook May Have Knowingly Inflated Video Metrics, Programmatic Prices Rise

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Facebook May Have Knowingly Inflated Its Video Metrics for Over a Year… No Wallet, No Problem. Yombu Scans Your Fingerprint for Payments, Loyalty Rewards… First-Price Auctions Are Driving Up Ad Prices…