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Yelp Lets Users Fact-Check Local Business Covid Safety
Despite the vaccine rollout and improving economic sentiment, a majority of consumers remain concerned about engaging with local businesses in many places across the US. Yelp is now allowing businesses to provide more information about health and safety practices to customers in hopes of fueling a quicker recovery.
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Don’t Panic: Location-Powered Mobile Marketing is (Still) the Future of Advertising
Why all the recent talk of going data-only when data shows that customers are amenable to providing location data if it leads to relevant advertising? Let’s take a closer look at what a long-term commitment to our media partners really requires when it comes to location, minus all the triopoly panic.
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Street Fight Daily: Google Gets $2.7B Fine for Shopping Practices, Mobile Video Vexes Marketers
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Gets Record $2.7 Billion Fine from EU for Skewing Shopping Searches… Creative Remains a Challenge on Mobile Video… Search Advertising Ripple Effect Expected from Amazon’s Whole Foods Purchase…
Cuebiq Partners With GeTui for Chinese Retail Data
The location data provider has entered into a partnership with GeTui, a mobile internet, push-notification service provider to nearly one billion devices. Under their agreement, the companies plan to jointly develop a machine learning platform to process data about foot traffic and offline consumer behavior from the Chinese market.
How Amazon’s Whole Foods Buy Could Transform the Retail Ecosystem
Amazon’s recent $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market could signal a new era of experimentation and pushing boundaries in retail as the company continues to redefine content and commerce in the grocery space and elsewhere, according to Gwen Morrison, co-CEO of The Store, WPP’s global retail practice.
Street Fight Daily: Facebook Video Marketing Woes, Google Stops Reading Email for Ad Targeting
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Video Ads Are All the Rage, But Viewability Rates Are as Low as 20%, Agencies Say… Google Plans to Stop Scanning Users’ Emails for Ad Targeting… Snapchat’s Newest Feature Is Also Its Biggest Privacy Threat…
What Happens to Local Data When Physical Stores Close?
More than 8,600 brick-and-mortar stores are expected to close this year. But long after the doors have been shuttered for the final time, much of the local data for those stores remains online. For national chains, outdated location data can lead to frustrated shoppers and missed opportunities for sales.
Instagram Collaboration Is Making Social Media Work for Small Businesses
“All social media is a funnel,” says Chris Warren, owner of Marjory Warren Boutique in New York City. “You’re trying to get someone to buy something.” Warren connected with other local shops via Townsquared, hyperlocal networking platform for small businesses, and joined a sort of “Instagram collective” with other store owners.
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