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GumGum Helps Marketers Reach Gamers with Intrinsic In-Game Ads

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A new partnership between the contextual-first digital ad platform GumGum and Frameplay, a company that enables intrinsic in-game advertising, could give multi-location brands a way to reach gamers in select markets while also enhancing the playing experience for those seeking more in-game rewards.

Can Apple’s Room Plan Bring Visual Commerce to Local Businesses?

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The AR world’s disappointment about smart glasses in the wake of WWDC has overshadowed the fact that there were notable AR developments at the event. Besides subtle signals throughout, Apple announced a new mobile room-scanning tool known as RoomPlanย that could democratize AR creation.

New Hires at Anyline, TextNow, and Braze

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The Street Fight new hires roundup features movers and shakers in adtech, martech, e-commerce, localized marketing, location intelligence, and more. This month’s roundup features new hires at Anyline, TextNow, and Braze.

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Three Essential Steps toward Omnichannel Success

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Consumers have limited time, detectable habits, and preferences about how they interact with brands. Marketers have become increasingly empowered to know and respond to these preferences on all channels.

As brands leverage opportunities offered by omnichannel marketing and further embrace the technology that unlocks each channelโ€™s capabilities and insights, they will give customers the personal experiences they crave. Beginning the journey toward true omnichannel can be daunting, but the immense value it creates for both customers and brands far outweighs the rethinking, reinvention, and innovations it demands.

Crossing the B2B-B2C Divide: The Next Frontier in Customer Experience

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In recent years, the marketing industry has started to discuss the increasingly blurry line between the disciplines of B2B and B2C marketing. For the most part, the conversation to date has been a discussion of tactics and methodologiesโ€”but this is only the tip of the iceberg.ย 

Over the next five years, the breakdown between the B2B and B2C worlds will be dramatic, and the resulting marketing landscapeโ€”as well as peopleโ€™s expectations for messagingโ€”will look quite different than they do today. Letโ€™s look at how this blurring line will soon vanish altogether.

Takeaways From โ€˜The Other CES 2020โ€™ That Location-Minded Marketers Need to Know

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CES provided a unique showcase for the importance of connected TV (CTV); itโ€™s one of the few events that wrangles hardware, media, and advertising companies into the same place for a week. Within digital advertising, this topic is number one, and not outlining your strategy to support CTV in 2020 was a way to cut any CES meeting short. Companies that have moved from video to TV, such as Amobee or Telaria/Rubicon, exciting new combinations of TV and digital assets such as Xandr; programmatic TV leaders like The Trade Desk; and companies that have been long on TV for years such as Samba TV should have a fantastic 2020 ahead of them.

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Nucleus Claims It Now Has Throw Weight to Outperform Platforms on Ads

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Google and Facebook have dominated digital advertising in this decade. But now, two-year-old Nucleus Marketing Solutions says it has the throw weight to tip the balance against the big search and social platforms.

Heard on the Street, Episode 12: How Important Are Online Reviews?

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Considering the level of influence that online reviews can have on any given business, it’s become increasingly important to optimize them in various ways. How is that done? There are lots of tactical ins and outs we highlight on this episode of the Heard on the Street Podcast.

Data is Technologyโ€™s Currency: Increase Its Value by Maintaining Accuracy

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By defining their organizationsโ€™ definition of โ€œaccuracy,โ€ allocating marketing resources to external solution providers that can provide unique data sets pulled from mobile phones, and ensuring all data is as up to date as possible via location-based approaches, marketers will begin to see an improvement in the quality and transparency of the data they purchase.

Street Fight Daily: Google Cedes Some Control of AMP, How Important Are Online Reviews?

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Google Is Giving Up Some Control of the AMP Format… Heard on the Street, Episode 12: How Important Are Online Reviews?… After Amazon Storefronts, A Self-Service Suite of Ad Tools…

Annie Selke Uses Offline Tactics to Drive Online Buyers

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The high-end furnishings brand Annie Selke uses direct mail catalogs and flyers to tell the companyโ€™s story, before ultimately driving most shoppers online to complete their transactions, explains Cindy Marshall, chief marketing officer for the Massachusetts-based brand. It’s also working with 4Cite’s cart-abandonment program and the vendor’s other tools.

Street Fight Daily: Amazon Gets into SMB Goods, Leading Travel Reviews Site Pivots to Social

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Amazon Wants to Take Over Every Aspect of Shopping. Next Up? Small Businesses… TripAdvisor Wants to Become Your Social Media Network for Travel… Shoppable Billboards: Retailers Say Physical Stores are Driving Online Sales…

TripAdvisor Wants to Become Your Social Media Network for Travel

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What started as a site for travel reviews is pivoting to become a social media hub for travelers, providing a personalized travel planning experience that combines reviews and recommendations from friends, publishers, and influencers, the company announced Monday.

Sprinklr, Snaps Launch Solution to Blend Efficiency of Chatbots & Care of Human Reps

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Primarily a customer experience management solution, Sprinklr believes its new integration will help brands more easily manage the transition between automated chatbots and human agents when dealing with complex customer care questions on Facebook Messenger, Twitter, and SMS.

GetFiveStars Expands Its Capabilities, Rebrands as GatherUp

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GetFiveStars, which helps businesses generate feedback from customers and capitalize on that feedback to better serve them, is rebranding as GatherUp. The name change intends to convey an increasingly holistic approach to customer engagement.

Street Fight Daily: What Ad Tech Consolidation May Look Like, GetFiveStars Rebrands as GatherUp

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… What Ad Tech Consolidation Will Look Like… GetFiveStars Expands Its Capabilities, Rebrands as GatherUp… Mary Meeker Is Leaving Kleiner Perkins…