News and Analysis

Back to ‘Normal’ Requires Omnichannel Approach

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Retailers facing new competition need to hold strong while consumers return to some of their pre-pandemic patterns while also exploring new marketing avenues and cross-channel strategies designed to pull people back in-store.

3 Reasons Virtual Events Are Here To Stay

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More than one in five Americans is fully vaccinated, and travel rates are soaring to yearlong highs, but virtual events are not going anywhere. Or virtual components of events, anyway.

Innovation Brief: Microsoft, Twitch, and Autonomous Pizza

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M7 Innovations’ Matt Maher discusses Microsoft’s Nuance acquisition, virtual influencers reinventing the livestream, and autonomous pizza delivery.

Commentary

Local Advertising’s Next Sleeping Giant: Uber

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Mike Boland: Given the attribution possibilities, its scale, recent delivery partnership with Starbucks, and existing Uber Eats infrastructure, Uber’s move into advertising looks pretty inevitable. Of course, it would have to gain internal competency as an ad company, so look for acquisitions or talent hires (or both) in 2019. And look for more rhetoric about the latest company to challenge the duopoly, this time in a very local way. 

Will Consumer Privacy Be the Defining Issue of 2019?

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Though their terms are not identical, in essence both GDPR and CCPA are designed to give consumers the power to stop companies from collecting personal data, to review all personal data a company may have collected, and to request deletion of any stored data. Both regulations strike a major blow in favor of the concept that ownership of personal data ultimately resides with the individual and not with companies who may profit from it.

LBMA Podcast: Burger King Swipes McDonald’s Customers, Target Experiments with AR

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On this week’s LBMA podcast: AdMov, Xamoom celebrates “Silent Night,” Burger King swipes McDonald’s customers, Dunkin’ fools Portland, MA, Stella Artois’ beer-serving robot, Target selling Christmas trees with AR.

Latest Posts

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Explores Offline-to-Online, Foursquare Partners with InfoScout

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Can Brands Create Facebook Custom Audiences Based On Brick-and-Mortar Visits?… Foursquare Partners with InfoScout to Offer Fuller Picture of Customer Journey… Postmates Relies on Streaming Data to Deliver Positive Experiences on Demand…

Openings and New Hires at Signpost, Vendasta, Spirited Media

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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 Rio SEO, CBS and RingPartner.

Raise Report: New Funding for Pro.com, Amplitude, CommonSense Robotics

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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 Jebbit, Parse.ly, CarDash, and Booster.

LBMA Podcast: Lyft + Amtrak, Placecast, Reveal Mobile

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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: Capsule pharmacy, Sony & Shakira, Thin Film, InMarket, McDonald’s.

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.