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As Few as 13% of Professionals Expect Full-Time Return to Office
Before the Covid-19 pandemic bumped office workers out of the office and into their living rooms, most of them worked exclusively or almost exclusively from the office. But after a year of remote work by necessity, only 13% say they expect to go back to full-time office work.
Expert Roundup: How Will Privacy Define the Near Term? Part II
A group of experts expounds on what the advertising ecosystem can expect from privacy changes and how to prepare for a new era of digital marketing and business.
Privacy-forward Digital Marketing Can Outperform Traditional Models
The results of a new campaign by Brave Software and Dentsu International show that digital privacy might not be the monolith that it’s thought to be, and that advertisers can still generate a positive ROI on their campaigns without sacrificing consumers’ online privacy.
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Local News Gets New Resource Center With Special Focus on Social Media
A Local News Resource Center to give publishers direct expertise on the “challenges and opportunities” of social media and other issues that confront the embattled industry has been set up at the Local Media Association.
How AI Can Help CPGs Meet Millennial and Gen-Z Expectations
Last year, almost half of Amazon’s private-label sales were in consumer-packaged goods. Pre-Amazon, legacy CPGs once would’ve been the beneficiary of that demand. CPGs have struggled to evolve with younger consumer preferences. Here’s what I mean, along with ways AI can help them improve.
Use Mobile Coupons to Get Above the Noise this Holiday Season
Since many retailers use the same strategies and tactics to capture consumer attention during the holidays, rising above the noise happens only for a few. This may be the season to plan smarter, not louder, and the answer may be the use of mobile coupons.
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Street Fight Daily: Facebook Bolsters Brand Safety, Instacart Partners With Legacy Grocer
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… xAd Rebrands as GroundTruth in Push to Expand Beyond AdTech… Facebook is Giving Advertisers More Control Over Where Their Ads Appear… Legacy Grocer Partners with Instagram to Offer Delivery…
#SFSNYC: Taking Location ‘Beyond Pins on a Map’
As more ideas and information are loaded into maps, the context of the data used in the creation needs to be clear, said Mapbox SVP Marc Prioleau. “Location is data,” Prioleau said.” Don’t just put your data on the map. Your data is the map.”
#SFSNYC: The Restaurants of Tomorrow
Everyone has at least heard of apps for booking reservations or ordering food from restaurants, but there is a deeper transformation underway within the industry. At Street Fight Summit in Brooklyn this week, the NRA’s Perry Quinn moderated a panel about how the restaurants of tomorrow are taking shape.
#SFSNYC: How Apps Can Take Advantage of Connections Between Travel and Local
At Street Fight Summit in Brooklyn Tuesday, Jeena James, global head of travel and local for Google Play, addressed the intersection of travel and local, explaining what apps in the Android ecosystem can do to capitalize on the connections between the two.
Street Fight Daily: Uber Embraces Reform as CEO Takes Leave, B2Cs Struggle with MarTech Integration
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Embraces Major Reforms as CEO Takes Leave… Melding Marketing and Ad Tech a Challenge for B2C Companies… Gen Z Is Not Mobile First; It’s Mobile Only..
#SFSNYC: YP Focuses on Audience to Keep Growing and Deliver Value to Clients
At Street Fight Summit in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Jared Rowe, CEO of YP, sat down with Andrew Shotland, proprietor of Local SEO Guide, to talk about recent trends and best practices in hyperlocal tech and marketing as well as his company’s efforts in the space.
#SFSNYC: Strategizing for the Coming Local Consolidation
In the six years since Street Fight was founded, companies in the local sector have popped up at a breakneck pace and are now being snatched up just as fast by their competitors. To break down this issue, Street Fight CEO and founder Laura Rich sat down with four experts in tech, SMBs, and mergers and acquisitions at Street Fight Summit Tuesday.
#SFSNYC: How Retail Businesses Are Evolving to Compete Both In-Store and Online
The days of viewing online and offline retail as completely separate are long-gone. Now major players such as Walmart look for ways to mesh online activity with their in-store operations. The ways these different channels of retail have become intertwined was at the heart of a panel discussion at Street Fight Summit in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
#SFSNYC: How Brands Decipher What Local Marketing Tactics Are Working
It might seem easier if one solution could fit every brands’ needs in hyperlocal marketing, but that could mean overlooking the context of each brand’s relationship with its customers. On a panel at Tuesday’s Street Fight Summit in Brooklyn, a diverse trio of brands and organizations discussed how they use hyperlocal marketing.
#SFSNYC: How Bots and AI Are Transforming Local
The march of artificial intelligence and bots continues across the digital marketing landscape, creating new ways to reach customers at local — however, these are still the early days. That was some of the sentiment shared at this morning’s panel on bots and AI at the Street Fight Summit in Brooklyn.
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