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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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How Marketers Can Engage Generation Alpha

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Just as marketers have finally started to connect with Millennials and Generation Z, there’s a new challenge on the horizon: engaging Generation Alpha. 

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Garnering Love, Not Likes: Advertising on Instagram

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One of the most noteworthy benefits of today’s digital advertising landscape is the variety that comes with testing and choosing which social media platforms resonate most with your brand. If you have decided Instagram is the clear winner for social advertising, keep the many pros and cons of the mobile-friendly platform in mind. This column tackles Instagram’s demographics, measurement essentials, and global thinking.

10 Ways To Provide a Cutting-Edge Retail Customer Experience

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Delighting customers isn’t about getting one thing right; it’s about firing on all cylinders, both online and in brick-and-mortar stores, to make an authentic connection with buyers to drive satisfaction and loyalty.

What does that look and feel like? Here are 10 examples of best practices that represent the state of the art in retail CX.

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Location Weekly: Pinterest Experiments with AR; Zenreach Promotes Walk-Through Metric for O2O Marketing

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In this 450th episode of Location Weekly, the cosmetics industry dominates the news. Pinterest is adding an AR make-up testing feature, and L’Oréal is getting personalized with the Perso app.

Atari is blending gaming and hotels, Zenreach is promoting a “walk-through” metric for online-to-offline marketing industry, Havas is partnering with Moving Walls for OOH measurement, and Google is partnering with Coconut Software for financial service reservations feature. 

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Use Mobile Coupons to Get Above the Noise this Holiday Season

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Since many retailers use the same strategies and tactics to capture consumer attention during the holidays, rising above the noise happens only for a few. This may be the season to plan smarter, not louder, and the answer may be the use of mobile coupons.

Street Fight Daily: Semcasting Debuts Attribution Solution, Mobile Coupons An Opportunity for Holidays

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Semcasting Offers Proof of Performance with New Attribution Platform… Data Still Makes Ads Irrelevant, Consumers Say… How Walmart Is Using First-Party Data to Stand Out in Ad-Supported Video…

The Rise of the Micro-Influencer and How Brands Can Deploy Them

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Today, many brands are choosing to work with influencers with a significantly smaller follower count: micro-influencers. Read on for tips on how to tap micro-influencers for your next marketing campaign.

LBMA Podcast: Facebook’s Friends, TGI Fridays, Kroger & Walgreens

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On this week’s edition of the LBMA podcast: Facebook’s nearby friends, Lime in Canada, Pinterest + Oracle & Ninth Decimal, TGI Fridays, Kroger + Walgreens, Ford + JC Decaux. Special Guest: Jigar Shah – Miles.

Street Fight Daily: GDPR Challenges Smaller Ad Tech Firms; More Detailed Sitelinks in Google Search?

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… GDPR Has Cut Down Ad Trackers in Europe but Helped Google… The Rise of the Micro-Influencer and How Brands Can Deploy Them… New Format for Google Sitelinks Shows More Site Content in SERP…

Street Fight Daily: Square CFO to Lead Nextdoor, Breaking Down the Voice Ecosystem

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Not All Voice Assistants are Created Equal… Square CFO Sarah Friar to Become Nextdoor CEO… Why Facebook Is Putting Its Skin in Local News’ Subscription Efforts…

Why Facebook Is Putting Its Skin in Local News’ Subscription Efforts

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In this Q&A, Facebook’s Josh Mabry, who leads the Facebook Local News Partnerships team, talks about the mentoring, coaching, and other work in these off-platform initiatives and why Facebook is backing them up with millions of dollars in funding.

Not All Voice Assistants are Created Equal

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Several tech giants are chasing voice search and assistant apps. They’re motivated by different factors—each seeing voice as a way to support, grow, and protect their unique core businesses.

TripAdvisor Debuts API with MomentFeed Partnership, Helping Brands Reach Hungry Travelers

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A new partnership between TripAdvisor and MomentFeed is making it possible for the customer experience management platform’s restaurant clients to manage TripAdvisor’s sponsored advertising product via the MomentFeed platform.

Synup Test Measures Voice Search Readiness for Brands

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Voice is the future of online search, but not enough businesses are prepared for the transition. To that end, the local SEO firm Synup recently released a product it’s calling the Voice Readiness Test to help brands discover how their search results sound to consumers using popular hands-free systems such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.