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DoubleVerify Acquires Meetrics to Fuel Global Expansion
The move comes amid a flurry of adtech mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs. Even as new privacy laws and rules threaten the targeting and measurement that drives the industry, investor interest in adtech is at an all-time high. Of course, consolidation will also help the remaining players weather the coming data drought.
Expert Roundup: The Cutting Edge of Contextual Advertising
Contextual advertising does not simply mean showing Macy’s ads to someone reading about fall apparel. In this roundup, leaders in contextual marketing provide insight on the cutting edge of the discipline.
Innovation Brief: Tesla, Instagram & Facebook
On a semi-weekly basis, Street Fight’s Innovation Brief series aggregates and analyzes happenings from across the technology and media spheres. This week, we look at Tesla Bot, Instagram’s latest UX changes, and Facebook video calling.
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Location Is an Underused Data Layer for Brands Seeking Better ROI
In 2019, we are just scratching the surface of location data’s potential for improving the ROI of advertising and marketing. As we approach the next decade, location intelligence will be a major factor in determining which brands thrive and exist in the many years to come and which ones fall by the wayside by not taking their data seriously enough.
The DOOH Opportunity: How OOH is Becoming a Bigger Piece of the Media Mix Pie
Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising is having a fantastic run. It is the only traditional media channel to consistently grow over the last 10 years and is expected to continue growing in 2019, according to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America.
However, OOH teams are often siloed away from broader digital marketing teams and are categorized differently in budget breakdowns and post-campaign analysis. As the field adapts and evolves, continued separation of digital and OOH teams is going to hinder, rather than help, your efforts and results.
LBMA Vidcast: Alibaba’s FlyZoo Hotel, McDonald’s Acquisition of Dynamic Yield
On this week’s Location-Based Marketing Association podcast: Samsung’s “Refrigerdating,” PrivateAcre, Alibaba’s FlyZoo hotel, McDonald’s buys DynamicYield, Oreo + Target, Coor’s Light battles Bud with sound. Special guest: Ian Dallimore, Lamar.
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Using Mobile Location Data to Target World Series Fans
Major advertisers paid upwards of $500,000 for each 30-second TV spot during the World Series this year, but using real-time mobile location data, savvy brand marketers could have reached targeted groups of consumers for much less.
Location Analytics Tracks Human Movement Before Hurricane Irma
In the wake of an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season, Placed looked at offline consumer behaviors in the days leading up to Hurricane Irma, which slammed into Florida in September. The results paint a picture of predictability around unpredictable situations.
Street Fight Daily: Microsoft Releases Tool for SMBs, Google’s Local Services Feature Rebrands
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Microsoft 365 for SMBs Is Now Available… Google’s Contractor Marketplace Expands, Rebrands to ‘Local Services’ in Search… Loyalty Economics: More than the Value Customers Bring to Brands…
How to Visualize Cause and Effect in Local Brand Marketing
Mark Stouse, CEO and co-founder of Proof Analytics, says there are ways for chief marketing officers to gird themselves in case of market downturns by using data to support their value to the businesses they serve. This is especially critical, he says given the growing control over tech spending that CMOs now command.
Street Fight Daily: Location to Power Local Google Search, Square Turns to Large Businesses
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google to Use Location Data as Primary Factor for Local Search Results… Square Announces the Register, a $999 POS Device for Larger Businesses… Why Selling Higher-End Brands Gives Walmart a Fighting Chance Against Amazon…
On the Various Challenges Facing European Publishers (and Some Solutions)
“As audiences age out, the number of print subscribers will plummet, and as older small business owners retire, old ways of doing business … retire with them as well,” David Mihm writes to Mike Blumenthal. “Legacy media companies that don’t evolve rapidly are going to be left with no audience and no customers.”
Is the Camera the ‘New Search Box’ for Local Discovery? Part II
It’s often said in the ad-tech world, and other sectors that are reliant on data, that “Content is King, but Data is God.” This is increasingly true in local ad-tech and martech given the need for “ground-truth” conversions to attribute ROI. And it will equally apply in local AR.
Street Fight Daily: Walmart Acts as Media Platform, Amazon Courts Grocers
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Inside Walmart’s Advertising Blitz… Amazon Slashes Seller Fees to Improve Grocery Sales Online… Mobile, YouTube, and Programmatic Are Alphabet’s Workhorses…
Street Culture: ‘OKRs’ and Omotenashi Lead the Culture at Button
OKRs – that’s “Objectives and Key Results” – are one of the drivers of culture at deep-linking software company Button. “OKRs are a major influencer to recruiting, internal interactions, how we onboard new employees, everything,” says Stephanie Mardell, Button’s head of people.
LBMA Podcast: Placed, Kaspersky Labs, Toys R Us
This Week in Location Based Marketing is a weekly video podcast from the Location Based Marketing Association with Asif Khan and Aubriana Lopez. On the show: Musti Group, Garmin + Alexa, McDonald’s Singapore, Lyft + Alphabet. Special Guest – Brent Perez on OpenLocate
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