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New Hires at Basis, Emodo, Acceleration Partners, and Redpoint Global

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The monthly 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 Basis, Emodo, Acceleration Partners, and Redpoint Global.

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Offline Partnerships Drive Mobile App Success for Brands

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Offline partnerships and ecosystem integrations are helping savvy brand marketers position their mobile apps in front of audiences at opportune moments.

What Does Connecticut’s Consumer Privacy Act Mean for Brand Marketers?

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When the Connecticut General Assembly passed the Connecticut Data Privacy Act last week, it became the fifth U.S. state to pass legislation regulating how people’s data is collected and shared online. More so than any previous legislation, Connecticut’s law could have a major impact on the way brand marketers connect with digital consumers.

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LBMA Presents Location Weekly: Google Focuses on Local, DeliveryHero Buys Woowa Brothers

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This week we’re discussing DeliveryHero buying Woowa Brothers for $4B, Mad Systems being granted a patent for location-based facial recognition platform, Lyft entering the car rental market for $35/day, Walmart teaming with Digimarc to make its print toy catalogue shoppable, Google focusing on local and PlaceIQ & FourthWall Media partnering to link TV ads with in-store visits.

Mobile Trends Set to Hit the US in 2020

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2019 was a hectic year for many in the social and technology spaces, and we expect that theme to carry into 2020: the “new normal” will become just “normal.” We are optimistic about this new year but also foresee some systemic changes as to how mobile technology will continue transforming our lives while allowing us more control.

Free and Premium Loyalty Programs Can and Should Coexist

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Brands like Lululemon and Restoration Hardware have strong, headline-making loyalty programs with annual fees upwards of $100. But thousands of brands also have free, points-based loyalty programs — can the two coexist in a single brand? 

The short answer: Yes. With shoppers’ desire for richer experiences and more valuable rewards and retailers’ need to gather data to support these desires, a blend of both premium and free loyalty is an advantageous route. 

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Street Fight Daily: Amazon Go Has Competition, In-House Marketing: It’s Complicated

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… Zippin Is the First Amazon Go Rival to Open an Automated Checkout Store… As Brands Move Marketing In-House, Agencies Push Back… How Server-Side Bidding Can Hide Pricing Tricks…

Motista Report Indicates What Brands Can Do to Spark Emotional Engagement

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The report’s results suggest that brands seeking a strong emotional bond with customers today must offer consistent experiences across a variety of channels and specifically seek out emotional connections through distinct strategies tailored to that purpose.

LBMA Podcast: Facebook & L’Oréal, Pandora, GroundTruth & Technomic

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On this week’s Location Based Marketing Association podcast: Facebook + L’Oreal, Pandora, GroundTruth + Technomic, Stasher, UgoRound, and Beam payments.

Street Culture: Synup Culture in the Chaos of Super-Fast Scale

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Kevin Clark is pulled in a lot of different directions these days: having joined digital knowledge SaaS company Synup less than a year ago, he’s trying to hire lots of new employees, he’s in charge of business logistics on which he’s not necessarily an expert, and his boss might call him at any moment.

Street Fight Daily: The (Walmart) Empire Strikes Back, How Brands Forge Emotional Connections

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… Inside Walmart’s Rise as a Legitimate E-Commerce Player… Motista Report Indicates What Brands Can Do to Spark Emotional Engagement… Did Ad Blocking Just Flip from Protection Racket to Mobile Marketing Savior…

A Probing Look at Local News Comes to Some Disturbing Conclusions

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To accurately gauge the quality of digital local news and assess its impact on communities, you would have to do what no one has wanted, or dared, to do. You would have to look at enough websites, enough stories and videos, in enough communities until you were glassy-eyed. Researchers behind a new study did just that.

At CallRail, Community Forums Prove Valuable for Product Development

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Community forums—online spaces where consumers and developers can interact and collaborate— are increasingly popular tools for companies hoping to improve their product development and ideation. The strategy is working effectively for marketing tech vendor CallRail.

Street Fight Daily: Uber Cash Burn Narrowing En Route to IPO, CallRail Engages User Base to Drive Product Dev

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING… Uber’s Losses Continue, But Narrow, In Its March Toward an IPO… At CallRail, Community Forums Prove Valuable for Product Development… How Yelp’s Revamped Ad Biz Powered a Great Quarter…

Uberall Partners With TripAdvisor for Multilocation Reputation Management

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While it has become commonplace for hotels and restaurants to check their TripAdvisor ratings on a regular basis, the process breaks down as the size of the business grows, causing brands with hundreds of locations to struggle. The digital location marketing platform Uberall is trying to change that.

Bridg Positions Itself as Marketing Arm for Offline Businesses

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Many brick-and-mortar businesses struggle to track and market to their customers in a way that generates additional sales. A startup called Bridg is looking to change that by launching a platform designed to help restaurants and retailers connect with “previously invisible” customers.