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Brands Look to Maximize Ad Spend Ahead of Recession

As brands struggle to deal with restrictions on data-driven ad targeting and an economic slowdown since the second quarter, ad budgets are on the chopping block. Brand marketers and agencies are being asked to do more with less. Expectations on return on investment are at an all-time high, even while ad budgets stagnate or decrease. What’s the solution?

Multi-Location Marketers Use Nextdoor Business Awards to Drive Awareness

As Nextdoor brings back its Neighborhood Favorites Awards program for the sixth summer, multi-location marketers are looking at how they can capitalize on the social attention to drive business and increase awareness among consumers in their local communities.

What Younger Shoppers Demand from Digital Experiences

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.

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LBMA Presents Location Weekly: Leveld, Canada Goose, Alexa on Broadway

This week on the Location-based Marketing Association podcast: a new app for location-based tool rental platform Leveld; Canada Goose crafting an engaging store experience with snow and ice; and JP Morgan Chase offering DashPass to premium cardholder members.

Asif and Aubriana continue with a groundbreaking step from the longest running musical on broadway, the famous Phantom of The Opera, becoming the first in the industry to leverage Alexa, Earth Fare going with Mood Media for upgraded digital signage, and Sprint & Wirecard teaming up on IoT payments.

How to Capture the Attention of Multiscreen Consumers

We’ll reach for our phones because the TV alone isn’t enough to entertain us, but this constant overstimulation leaves us wanting more. The fact that we’ll often use the ad breaks to check our phones throws the effectiveness of TV advertising into doubt, but the truth is whatever outlet consumers choose, marketers can no longer take a captive audience for granted.

Here are some tips to capture attention in a multi-screen media environment.

2020’s Location-Privacy Winter: The iOS Edition

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.

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Street Fight Daily: How to Manage Google’s Local Services Ads, Instagram Building Standalone Commerce App

TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Social’s Hottest Platform Is Building a Standalone App for Commerce… 3 Tips for Managing Local Services Ads… Ad Tech Needs a Shared ID Solution ASAP…

How to Build a Quality SMS Subscriber List, Bridging the Gap Between Text and CRM

Imagine a marketing tool that is available to you that nine out of 10 targeted people will read within three seconds. For retailers and marketers to take full advantage of SMS marketing, plans must start with building quality contacts. This is the starting point to build an effective bridge between text and CRM.

Marketers Need to Know the Truth About GPS

The imperfections of location-tracking tech do not mean that all location data derived from GPS satellites is inaccurate or useless as a marketing tool. It just means that marketers need to better set their expectations, know the data they are buying, and factor the limitations into their partnership agreements and marketing plans.

Street Fight Daily: Google Misses Self-Imposed Transparency Deadline, Retail’s Apparent Comeback

TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Google Misses Self-Imposed Deadline to Implement IAB Consent Framework… How to Build a Quality SMS Subscriber List, Bridging the Gap Between Text and CRM… Hard Lessons Breathe New Life into Retail Stores—But Few Reap the Benefits…

Street Fight Daily: Google Bought MasterCard Data for Attribution, Free Coffee for Consumer Data?

TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Google and MasterCard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Establish Attribution… Why Publishers Are Transitioning to Affiliate Marketing… Possibly Foreshadowing Retail Trend to Come, a Shop Exchanges ‘Free’ Coffee for Data…

Why Publishers Are Transitioning to Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing spend will hit $6.8 billion by 2020, as major publishers like Business Insider, Forbes, and Conde Nast shift their approach in order to appeal to advertisers who are demanding more transparency and value.

Street Culture: Adcellerant Won’t Take Your Coffee Away

Adcellerant has been on Inc.’s Best Workplaces list for the last two years and ranked as the No. 2 best place to work in Colorado for a medium-sized company this year by the Denver Business Journal. The company was founded in 2013 and currently employs about 40 people.

LBMA Podcast: McDonald’s, Google Sued, Telnav & Sionic Mobile

Featured on this week’s Location-Based Marketing Association podcast: Telnav + Sionic Mobile, Telestra, Keyo’s pay by palm, McDonald’s, Dove’s AR cover campaign, Google sued. Special guest: Robert Radek, GEON Network.

Civil’s Bold Plan for the News Crisis: ‘Flip the Business Model on Its Head’

In this Q&A, Matt Coolidge, head of marketing and a co-founder at Civil, explains how a “new economy for journalism” oriented around unifying publishers and their audiences is working to flip the business model for news through such innovative approaches as blockchain technology.

Who Will Own Your Augmented Reality?

Questions about AR ownership will be particularly contentious wherever money is changing hands, such as in AR advertising. Courts will face questions such as ownership of digital ad inventory when there are AR overlays on private property (or on other ads). There could be similar gray area in retail & commerce.