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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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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. 

Email Monetization’s Place in the Changing Horizons of Digital Advertising

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We all know that digital advertising isn’t going anywhere. When brands pull back on spending on social and display advertising, they’re putting more resources into other channels. Over the past year, email monetization has gotten the bulk of this attention. 

Using AI to systematically select ads that appeal to a publisher’s recipients means brands aren’t wasting their budgets on readers who aren’t interested in their products, and publishers aren’t turning off their readers by running unappealing ads.

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How VPNs May Undermine, Rather Than Protect, Your Data Privacy

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Now that ISPs can access everything you do through the IoT, the level of privacy invasion has reached a staggering new high. You don’t need to look any further than the recent Telnet leak of over 500,000 passwords of IoT devices, routers, and servers to understand this. 

This invasion of privacy, alongside the growing angst towards data collection activities of tech giants, has led many to seek safety in the world of virtual private networks. But research indicates VPNs are often insecure.

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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.

Street Fight Daily: A Test for Voice Search Readiness, Putting the Video Ad Boom into Numbers

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Synup Test Measures Voice Search Readiness for Brands… Video Swells to 25% of Digital US Ad Spend… TripAdvisor Debuts API with MomentFeed Partnership, Helping Brands Reach Hungry Travelers…

What’s New For Marketers This Holiday Season?

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A new report indicates that email marketers with holiday-focused campaigns might inadvertently be lowering their open rates and hurting their chances at financial success during one of the most critical times of the year.

Reality Check: Adapting to Google’s Ever-Growing Control of the Search Experience

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Google has been reducing the amount of traffic to local websites for a long time. And while it took a while to understand what was happening, it isn’t infuriating. Businesses can still get in front of customers and garner leads—it’s just not via their website.

Street Fight Daily: Adapting to Google’s Control of Local Search Experience, Search Spend Drifts to Amazon

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Reality Check: Adapting to Google’s Ever-Growing Control of the Search Experience… Some Advertisers Move Half Their Search Budgets from Google to Amazon… What’s New For Marketers This Holiday Season?…

Raise Report: Foursquare, CrowdRiff, Mode Secure Fresh 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’s edition includes funding for Instana, Hopper, Qonto, and Stringr.

LBMA Podcast: Placed & Adobe, Perry Ellis & Amazon, Foursquare

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On this week’s episode of the Location-Based Marketing Association podcast: Innovative Foto, Airport Sherpa, Alaska Airlines goes VR, Cargo raises $22M, Foursquare for Good, Placed teams up with Adobe, Perry Ellis’s Alexa skills.