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Expert Roundup: How Will Retail Transform in 2021? Part II

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In part II of our retail expert roundup, we cover mixed reality’s role in retail, data, and privacy compliance, and how retail can recover and rebound in 2021.

Retailers Use AI to Rebuild the Customer Experience

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Retailers are using artificial intelligence to enhance the customer experience and also run their own back-end operations more efficiently.

How Agencies Can Thrive as Data Restrictions, and Walled Gardens, Gain Strength

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Agencies must figure out how to help clients navigate the new privacy era of digital ad targeting. They can thrive despite new advantages for walled gardens.

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Improving the Local SEO Toolkit: A 2018 Holiday Wish List

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“Local is a complicated world that is not currently served well by the tools of the organic world. The end of the year and the start of a new one is a great time to get folks thinking about how they might address this hole in our tool sets,” says Mike Blumenthal. He and David Mihm explore the weaknesses and possibilities among local search tools in their last column of 2018.

2019 Location Data Predictions: Mobile, Privacy, and Explosive Growth

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Greg Isbister: The next year will see a marked shift for location data. As consumers and businesses alike see more value and additional uses for this data, industry growth will continue to increase exponentially. Until regulations are put in place to increase security and transparency, it will be up to businesses to institute their own best practices, getting ahead of legislation to come.

LBMA Podcast: Facebook Files New Patents, Google Maps ‘For You’

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On this week’s LBMA podcast: Facebook files new patents, JoAnn taps Teemo, Favendo at Frankfurt airport, Google Map’s “For You,” Domino’s hotspots, Mariott + PepsiCo go virtual reality art. Special guest: Gabriel Bedoya – The Insights Company.

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Street Fight Daily: Marketers Take Note as Snap’s Q2 Disappoints, Uber Infighting Escalates

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Snap Falls 17% as Revenue and Daily User Growth Disappoint… Benchmark Is Suing Kalanick and Uber Over Board Control… Facebook Courts Video Makers for ‘Watch’ Tab with Financial Incentives…

Facebook Talks About Its ‘Shared Future’ With Local News Publishers

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In recent sessions, many publishers – most of them focused on local news – are learning best practices of digital publishing that have helped Facebook attract an audience of more than 2 billion subscribers.

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How Brands Can Use Location to Ace Back-To-School Ad Campaigns

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Brands could be throwing their back-to-school ad dollars to the wind if they are only taking a standard location approach. In fact, the study found that brands could wasting more than 80 percent of their back-to-school media on the wrong audience if location data isn’t used correctly .

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Partners with Curbside, Foursquare Check-Ins Evolve with Location Tech

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Yelp Partners with Curbside to Add Order Pickup to its App… Foursquare May Have Grown Up, But the Check-In Still Matters… Google Reboots Display Network, Gives Advertisers More Control…

Report: Proximity Solutions Industry Evolving Beyond Retail Marketing

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As the proximity solutions industry undergoes rapid expansion, providers are changing up the technologies they rely on. Meanwhile, industries as varied as healthcare, marijuana, and aerospace defense manufacturing are finding new applications for proximity technology.

How an Italian Wafer Brand Targets U.S. Moms and Millennial Foodies on a Local Level

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Crystal Black Davis, the VP of marketing at Loacker USA, recently spoke with Street Fight about her challenge in bringing an established brand to a new market and finding customers on a local level.

Street Fight Daily: Google Identifies Publishers with Cumbersome Ads, Facebook Cleans Up Its Garden

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Reveals Sites with Failing Ads, Including LA Times, Forbes… Facebook Expels Unintentional Clicks from Its Garden to Shore Up Measurement… Analytics Are Widely Used, But Is the Effort Paying Off?…

Foursquare’s New Swarm Update Emphasizes Tracking Past Visits

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The company is releasing a major update to its Swarm mobile app this morning, moving its focus away from head-to-head competition and real-time check-ins, with a more streamlined way to revisit personal moments from the past.

What Will Amazon Do With Whole Foods?

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Whole Foods will represent a brand-new challenge to the company that has come to define online commerce. How can shopping in a physical store be disrupted and transformed by the same kind of thinking that created the world’s biggest virtual marketplace?

Case Study: How a Newborn Photographer Uses CRM for Creative Remarketing

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Heather Read isn’t just the lead photographer at her eponymous business in Chicago, Illinois, she’s also the head marketer, strategist, editor, and customer service representative. Like so many other small business owners, Read finds it difficult to launch the types of aggressive campaigns she needs to keep her business growing.