News and Analysis

What Substack’s Success Portends for Digital Marketing

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Substack’s success points to the power of email as a means of owning an audience, which will only grow in importance as privacy restrictions proliferate.

GroundTruth Acquires Self-Serve Local Ad Platform Addy

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The acquisition is part of GroundTruth’s push to equip small businesses with the kinds of location marketing and ad tech-driven solutions previously available only to big brands.

Constellation Agency Helps Drive the Auto Industry into a New Era

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The auto industry needs a tune-up. Customer service is getting faster across verticals amid the Covid-19 e-commerce boom. But all auto customers know that the sales experience in that industry has hardly changed — and it’s a hassle. Show up to the local dealership, find out if the car you want is even there, and of course, haggle with the dealer.

Diana Lee’s Constellation Agency is offering a solution.

Commentary

How Brands Will Select Key Partners in 2019: 5 Key Takeaways from Affiliate Summit West

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Robert Glazer: This year’s Affiliate Summit West conference took place earlier this month in Las Vegas. And just like every year, performance marketing experts gathered to see some of the potential challenges and opportunities the space is likely to see in 2019. This year’s conference gave them plenty to chew on. There were five topics, in particular, that I found to be most important. Here’s a closer look at them.

LBMA Vidcast: Square Goes Mobile SDK, Gimbal Buys UberMedia

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On this week’s Location-Based Marketing Association show: Square goes mobile SDK, Sinclair + Harman + SK Telecom, Gimbal buys UberMedia, AT&T and others to stop selling location data, LocusLabs partners with IndoorAtlas. Special Guests: Herve Utheza (Here Technologies) & Tom Kenney (Verve).

Trending Now: Brands Shifting Mobile Ad Budgets from Facebook to Google UAC

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Brian Bowman: There’s an emerging trend in the advertising industry—for the first time, brands are shifting significant mobile advertising budgets from Facebook ads to Google Universal App Campaigns (UAC). While Facebook advertising has largely dominated mobile marketing budgets, this migration of budgets to Google’s platform has been a helpful shift to diversify risk tied to any single platform. Why is this shift happening now, and what does it mean for brands?

Latest Posts

Street Fight Daily: Self-Driving Cars Now Deliver Pizzas, Amazon Expands Advertising

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Ford and Domino’s to Deliver Pizza Using Self-Driving Cars in New Test… Amazon Grows Its Programmatic Ad Business… Uber’s CEO Choice Faces a Question of Ambitions…

The Fallacy of Google’s “Micro-Moment” Positioning

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“I see the customer journey as the customer journey wherever it leads,” Mike Blumenthal tells David Mihm. “I see Google’s efforts to oversimplify it into discrete points in time as a gross form of reductionism that doesn’t help us understand that journey better. “

Swedish Location Management Company PinMeTo Secures H&M Investment

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Local presence management vendor PinMeTo is celebrating an investment from the retail giant in a tactical round the company sees as a stepping stone to further expansion. “Our goal is and has been to expand globally in 2018,” says COO Andre Tiwari, “and H&M brings invaluable knowledge and support for that goal.”

Street Fight Daily: Expedia CEO to Be Offered Uber Job, Consumer Brands Cut Ad Spend

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Will Be Offered Job as Uber CEO… CPG Ad Cuts Raise Tough Questions for Digital Media… Food Delivery Creates Tech Headache for Some U.S. Restaurants…

Openings and New Hires SalesFuel, Upserve, Search Influence

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Every two weeks, Geoff Michener covers some of the latest openings and new hires in this dynamic industry. This week’s edition includes moves and new openings at the LA Times, Broadly and Macy’s

Raise Report: Fresh Funding for NuOrder, LiftIgniter, Bridg

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Every two weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week’s edition includes funding for Minibar Delivery, Immersv, Sigstr, and WorkSpan.

LBMA Podcast: Simon Properties, Little Caesars, Cheetos

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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: ShiftWear, NY Jets + Xperiel, Brandify + Yelp and more.

Street Fight Daily: Amazon’s Grocery Disruption Begins, Retailers Embrace Direct Mail

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon to Lower Whole Foods Prices Monday and Offer Prime Members Benefits Soon… Why Data-Driven Retailers Are Learning to Love Direct Mail… Two Uber Investors Seek to Defend Kalanick in Legal Battle…

Case Study: Audiologist Offloads Management of Digital Campaigns

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Audiology First owner Diana Wagner knew that establishing a presence online would be essential to growing her business, but running online marketing campaigns required too much day-to-day involvement for her to be able to handle everything on her own.

Facebook Has a New Mission That Just May Benefit Local Publishers

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Facebook doesn’t call itself a technology company anymore. “It’s a “new kind of platform,” says founder Mark Zuckerberg. But I think the world – in particular local news publishers — should forget the semantics and focus instead on what Facebook is actually doing.