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Street Fight LIVE Insights: Stopping at C-Stores with Mike Templeton

Street Fight LIVE Insights: Stopping at C-Stores with Mike Templeton

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Some people collect snow globes or stickers on road trips. Others boast that they’ve seen all the National Parks. Still others have a thing for selfies in front of weird vintage structures. But Mike Templeton, one of the speakers at Street Fight LIVE stops at and collects insights from convenience stores (C-stores), the unsung heroes […]

The MULO Dozen: November in Review Street Fight

The MULO Dozen: November in Review

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As November and 2024 draws to a close, news from MULO (multi-location) brands has hardly slowed down! In fact, this season is a make-or-break for retailers, restaurants, C-stores, and service businesses as consumers travel near and far to eat, shop, and squeeze in those errands before the year ends. Of course, the biggest news of […]

Tinuiti’s CMO Tips for 2025 Street Fight

Tinuiti’s CMO Tips for 2025

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As if Google doesn’t have enough headaches, between the DOJ trial and calls for it to be broken up, now it has to contend with ChatGPT and Perplexity, which could destroy its search business. Those blue links of highlighted text curated on a Google search are becoming an endangered species, according Tinuiti’s Big Bets for […]

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Elon Musk Doesn’t Get Geotargeting

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Elon Musk dismissed the idea that geotargeting to Jiffy Lubes customers is even possible during a recent Twitter Spaces. But leveraging store visit data for advertising is nothing new. According to Kochava CEO, Charles Manning, it’s a $10-$15 Billion market segment. Here’s how it works.

What GoWalla's Resurgence Says About the State of SoLoMo

What GoWalla’s Resurgence Says About the State of SoLoMo

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GoWalla is re-launching. And what better place to do it than its original birthplace at SXSW? Now fourteen years later, the product will contain a mix of its original SoLoMo formula, features to address today’s demand signals, and other learnings from its first run.

Redefining NFTs by 10 Emerging Utilities

Redefining NFTs by 10 Emerging Utilities

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As some forward-thinking brands have already found, the unexpected utilities of NFTs makes them good for much more than digital art.

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Claravine Aims to Revolutionize Marketing Data Management

Claravine Aims to Revolutionize Marketing Data Management

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Claravine recently unveiled Claravine AI, a suite of solutions designed to redefine how marketing teams approach data management. This new offering, fueled by proprietary technology, promises to empower marketing teams with unprecedented control and insight into marketing taxonomy and metadata. By fostering collaboration across the content supply chain and automating the classification of creative assets, […]

DevHub Mark Michael Speaks About Today's Franchise and Tech

Mark Michael Speaks About Today’s Franchise and Tech

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DevHub CEO and Founder Mark Michael describes his company as the “torso” of the franchise brand ecosystem. DevHub specializes in building front-end websites that power the entire franchisor-to-franchisee-to-consumer experience. Their technology has more than 75 integrations with other commonly used platforms, and he often speaks about the power of human relationships in solving problems and […]

Compliant Launches Publisher Platform to Combat Illegal Data Sharing

Compliant Launches Publisher Platform to Combat Illegal Data Sharing

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In response to the pressing issue of illegal data sharing on digital publishing platforms, Compliant, a leading data compliance technology company, has introduced a new publisher platform. This platform utilizes advanced AI, termed Compliant Audit Technology, to identify and eradicate compliance risks and vulnerabilities within a publisher’s site. The move follows alarming findings by Compliant, […]

Conversational Commerce: The Next Frontier in Personalized Customer Journeys

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In the fast-evolving landscape of e-commerce, a renewed emphasis on personalization has reshaped customer experiences. Guided shopping, propelled by tools like chatbots and quiz platforms, has become commonplace. Now, as cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies come into play, a new frontier emerges in the form of conversational commerce. But what exactly is conversational commerce, […]

AppsFlyer Fortifies Privacy-Focused Analytics with devtodev Acquisition

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The recent acquisition of devtodev by AppsFlyer, a global leader in marketing measurement, attribution, and data analytics, has sent ripples through the industry. In a discussion with Oren Kaniel, AppsFlyer CEO and Co-founder, he shed light on the significance of this acquisition, emphasizing how it positions AppsFlyer as the pioneer in analytics within the newly […]

The 3 Technologies MULO Restaurant Businesses Need Today: A Chat with Eric Seymour

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Eric Seymour is the VP of Channel Programs at me&u. The company provides tech-powered ordering to restaurants.  He believes strongly that the right technologies, combined with the best possible human-customer interaction, can help solve many of the problems multi-location (MULO) restaurants face today in terms of service and satisfaction today. What are the top three […]

Applying the Golden Rule to Omnichannel Retail Marketing

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Tim Mason is not only CEO of Eagle Eye, a SaaS company that provides global personalized retail marketing via its loyalty and promotions platform, AIR, he is also a 30-year retail industry veteran, author, and keynote speaker. Before becoming head of Eagle Eye in 2016, Mason held senior executive positions at Tesco, the largest multinational […]

Santa Needs Fewer Elves This Year: Trends in Retail Employment

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A recent retail employment study by Indeed indicates that although people are still hunting for seasonal jobs this holiday season, the number of job postings has dropped to pre-pandemic levels. Postings are down 3 percent from 2019 and 6 percent year-over-year. About 39 percent of Americans have side hustles, and many consumers depend on holiday […]

Leverage a Single View of the Customer in Real Time With Generative AI

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It’s been almost two decades since we first heard “data is the new oil” and companies have tapped into that resource ever since, fundamentally changing the way we do business and how we talk to customers on digital channels. Raw data must be refined to realize its full value, but even with limited refining capabilities, […]

The Search Landscape, Localogy, StreetFight, Humans & AI (& Pasta)!

The Search Landscape, Humans & AI (& Pasta)!

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The New York City landscape has changed,  and so has the local search landscape. On November 7th, at Localogy‘s Place23 conference,  a range of powerhouse groups and more than 100 senior marketing professionals came together to be the architects of our new future. Two of the panels at the Place event covered the challenges faced […]