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Integral Ad Science Acquires Context to Power Contextual Video Advertising

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When many in adtech think about contextual advertising, they likely now think about privacy and context’s power to drive advertising based on its relevance to user experiences, not granular and sometimes invasive data on user behavior. But advertisers have also prized contextual advertising for years for its ability to connect them with brand-suitable environments.

Innovation Brief: Spotify, Chipotle & TikTok

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Street Fight’s Innovation Brief series aggregates and analyzes happenings from across the technology and media spheres. This week, we look at Spotify’s acquisition, Chipotle’s digital-only location, and TikTok’s viral food play.

New Hires: Mediaocean, Acceleration Partners, and More

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This new biweekly Street Fight roundup will feature new hires in the spaces Street Fight covers: adtech, martech, e-commerce, localized marketing, location intelligence, and more. This week’s companies include Mediaocean, Acceleration Partners, Aisle Rocket, Ordergroove, and AdAdapted.

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Communities: The Next Generation of Customer Engagement is Here to Stay

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Today, it’s clear that the way businesses are communicating with customers is coming to another inflection point. Not only can end users opt out of messages from brands they don’t want to hear from, but they have become numb to the “spam” they receive on a daily basis. Now, new age technologies have opened up a plethora of avenues for organizations to push messages out to end users, and it begs the question, what can be done to find even more information about your audience? 

A new mode of engagement is needed to help supplement customer communication in the next generation, but how will this manifest? My money would be on community. 

LBMA Vidcast: PreciseTarget, Pinterest, Amazon Kills Dash Button

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On this week’s Location-Based Marketing Association podcast: PreciseTarget, Pinterest, Pokemon Go in NYC, Amazon killing Dash button, Walgreens using Theatre, MediaMarkt rolls out Signify indoor navigation, RevealMobile adds Canadian data.

3 Things You Need to Know about Marketing on Reddit

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Reddit refers to itself as the front page of the Internet. It’s a veritable goldmine for a marketer who knows how to leverage it. The trouble is, most don’t. They treat Reddit as no different from Facebook or Twitter. Here’s how to avoid making the same mistake. 

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An eBook on Google Q&A: Everything You Wanted to Know and More

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Brand engagement with Google Q & A would not just provide authoritative answers to consumers who are looking to do business with brands but would also demonstrate a level of brand concern that could provide a competitive advantage.

How Krave Jerky Used First-Party Location Data to Boost Brand Awareness

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Krave’s success at leveraging InMarket’s location-based marketing solutions offers “proof that high tech strategies aren’t just for high tech brands — all CPGs can take advantage of big data in 2018 in turnkey fashion,” says Dave Heinzinger, inMarket’s vice president of communications.

Street Fight Daily: Google and Target Partner on Voice; Amazon’s Future in Search Ads

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google and Target Offer the First Voice-Activated Coupon on Google Assistant… Amazon Could Dominate Product Search Ads by 2020… LA Times: ‘Programmatic Is Going to Be a Big Part’ of Publisher’s Future..

How Dunkin’ Thinks About Google Assistant Integration and the Future of Mobile Ordering

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“Increasingly, brands are being judged by the experience they deliver as much as the product,” said Paul Murray, Dunkin’ brands director of digital experience. “This is a really good example for us where we’re delivering on a great product and we’re also delivering on the experience, and we’re leveraging new technology to do it.”

Is Voice the Future of Local AR?

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Visual AR won’t go away and is aligned with several use cases like gaming. But audio could get here sooner and take over a certain share of micro moments like getting informed about people or surroundings. We’re talking local discovery, shopping, and proximity-based social media.

Street Fight Daily: Ad Tech Too Crowded for Marketers, Facebook Crackdown on Targeting to Build

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Why Choosing Mar Tech Vendors Is Challenging for Marketers… Facebook Plans Crackdown on Ad Targeting by Email Without Consent… Amid Heightened Competition, Domino’s Mobile Game Offers Rewards Points..

The Biggest Roadblocks to Building a Top Loyalty Program

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To build a successful loyalty program, make sure that customers can see what points and rewards they’ve earned without making them jump through hoops. Make your system as transparent and frictionless as possible, and try to communicate via each member’s preferred channel.

LBMA Podcast: Google’s Just A Line, Walmart & Handy, Snapchat

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Also on the show this week: Drive Time Metrics, VisuWall, the Church of England, Macy’s, Home Depot + Pinterest, Philips Lighting.

As Amazon Preps Attribution Tool, Media Buyers Demand Greater ROI

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Amazon’s massive consumer audience and billions of touch points, coupled with its newly acquired brick-and-mortar presence, means the company’s ad services could be in a position to explode if it does a good enough job illustrating the influence its ad services have on driving online-to-offline or strictly online sales.

Street Fight Daily: Media Buyers Weigh in on Facebook’s Data Changes, A New Era for Uber?

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Agencies: Facebook’s Removal of Third-Party Data Turns Back the Clock on Targeting… A Deep Dive on the Challenges Facing New Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi… Paid Search, Shopping Campaign Media Buys Continue to Rise…