News and Analysis

7 Audio Out-of-Home (AOOH) Solutions to Watch in 2022

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Audio out-of-home (AOOH) advertising has become an ad industry darling, offering brands a creative way to connect with consumers in real-time as they move toward the point of purchase. By inserting ads into audio content, like podcasts, streaming music, or the overhead speakers in a retail store, brands are reaching on-the-go consumers and driving conversions.

Smartify Helps SMBs Generate Digital Ad Revenue from Window Inventory

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A new program from Smartify Media would help small business owners generate incremental revenue from what has traditionally been an under-utilized asset — the storefront window.

7 Shoppable Video Platforms

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With a number of shoppable video platforms preparing to launch or expand their offerings in 2022, and established companies like Firework finding interest from major investors like SoftBank, the phenomenon seems likely to gain popularity in the US.

Commentary

2020’s Location-Privacy Winter: The iOS Edition

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CCPA isn’t the only factor that will impact privacy and data collection. There are less-discussed and potentially more significant variables like the death of browser cookies and other tech-centric measures. Especially for location tracking, private sector influences and accelerants loom.

5 Ad Tech Predictions for 2020

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Charmagne Jacobs, VP and head of global marketing and partnerships at Adslot, shares ad tech predictions for 2020, including the rise of zero-party data, first-party’s data’s increasing importance, the return to contextual ads, and a shift toward more premium programmatic executions.

2020 Arrives: How Brands and Marketers Can Survive the New Decade

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Brands have an obligation to adhere to what their customers care about, but given how easy it is for people to digitally project an aspirational lifestyle, it’s no wonder brands are having a tough time understanding who their consumers are and what they want from the brands they support. To combat this knowledge gap and align what consumers say with what they actually do, we need more real-world intelligence.

Latest Posts

Street Fight Daily: Integration of Listings & Reputation Management; Google Reviews, Yelp, and Antitrust

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Latest Local Marketing Merger Aims for Scale in Critical Listings Management Sector… Yelp, Google Reviews, and Antitrust… Oath Integrates Its Ad Tech Assets—But What About the Verizon Data?…

Raise Report: Factual, Uberall, SOCi Secure 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’s edition includes funding for Planday, New Knowledge, Launchmetrics, and Uppercase.

LBMA Podcast: Dstillery’s DMaps, Estimote, Walmart & VR

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On this week’s Location-Based Marketing Assocation podcast: Dstillery’s DMaps, Estimote, Landmrk + Ariana Grande, Walmart goes VR, Accuweather + Foursquare, Frito Lay goes back to school with Alexa.

Street Fight Daily: An Impending Ad-Blocking Nightmare, Should Consumers Sell Their Data?

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Gen-Z and Mobile Are a Developing Ad-Blocking Nightmare… If Privacy Is Dead, Some Argue, People Should Sell Their Data… Raise Report: Factual, Uberall, SOCi Secure New Funding…

Uberall Acquires Rival Navads, Announces $25M in Fresh Funding

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Location marketing firm Uberall has acquired rival Navads and raised an additional $25 million in venture funding after closing a series B for the same amount just earlier this year. The exact terms of the acquisition deal are undisclosed.

Logi Analytics Leverages Future Insights with Predictive Tool

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With the understanding that applications are more valuable when they show future outcomes, as opposed to past results, the business intelligence firm Logi Analytics is launching a product today that will allow users to access and leverage future insights, enabled by machine learning, directly from their existing applications.

How Reddit and Local Media Consortium Upvoted Each Other and Became Partners

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But Reddit and the LMC each has something that the other wants. Reddit would like to tap into the LMC’s huge pool of 470 million unique visitors and turn many of them into subscribers. LMC publishers wants to learn from Reddit how to make their readers more engaged. Now, old media and new media are teaming up.

Street Fight Daily: Uberall Acquires Navads; In-App Ad Spend Grows, Led by Video

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Uberall Acquires Rival Navads, Announces $25M in Fresh Funding… PubMatic Report on Mobile Advertising Demonstrates Strength of Video… AppLovin Acquires MAX in a Bid to Spur In-App Header Bidding Adoption…

PubMatic Report on Mobile Advertising Demonstrates Strength of Video

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As the mobile ad market continues to grow, advertisers should look to leverage in-app private marketplaces and video advertising, according to a report on mobile advertising trends by publisher-focused sell-side platform PubMatic.

Heard on the Street, Episode 11: Pivot Dynamics with Gravy Analytics’ Jeff White

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“As an entrepreneur, they always say you have to be gritty and tough, and the world’s going to kick you in the teeth, and you have to keep going and persevere,” said Gravy Analytics founder and CEO Jeff White, our latest guest on Heard on the Street. “But sometimes that comes at the expense of having a vision that’s blinding. So you can’t not take your head up and realize, we may be off course.”