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Street Fight Daily: Amazon’s New Brick-and-Mortar Highlights Local, Quality; New Hires in Hyperlocal

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Amazon’s New Store in NY Offers 4-Star+ Products Trending with New Yorkers… New Hires at Adsquare, IAB, GatherUp… No Data? No Problem! Build Loyalty Despite Lack of Data…

New Hires at Adsquare, IAB, GatherUp

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Every two or three weeks, Street Fight rounds up some of the latest hires and new openings in the hyperlocal marketing, tech, and media industries.  This week includes new hires at PebblePost, dataPlor, and Snapsheet.

Street Fight Daily: Apple Dances On While Rivals Flail, Smart Checkout Industry Will Boom

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… How Apple Thrived in a Season of Tech Scandals… Dstillery and CultureWaves Partner on Observed Behavior-Based Marketing… Smart Checkout Tech Projected to Hit $45 Billion…

Commentary

Is the On-Demand Economy a Local Media Growth Engine — Or Its Death Knell?

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Local on-demand services continue to dominate press and investor attention. But the elephant in the room is the degree to which on-demand could displace local marketing as we know it.

INFOGRAPHIC: A Quick, Deep Dive Into Local Pharmacies

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Here’s a view of the U.S. pharmacy industry – not the drug makers but the local distribution networks made up of thousands of retail pharmacies. These pharmacies help drive the nearly $260B in “Drug Store Revenue.”

On Building Local Products With Merchants in Mind

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In local, particularly, it seems important to underscore something for new startups: to really think about and envision and understand their customer base…

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How ReachLocal Used an Irreverent Holiday to Get Back to Its Startup Roots

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Every two weeks, Street Fight takes a look at the inventive, and at times crazy, ways some of the fastest growing companies in local create the type of unique culture that attracts the best and brightest…

LBMA Podcast: Banjo’s Raise, Pizza Hut Adds Location

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On the show: Gimbal partners with Tillster for restaurants; SpotMe App lets you pay and track debts; Battersea puts dogs on digital screens; Wall’s Ice Cream brings the truck inside your office; Shadow WiFi; UrbanClap from India…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook’s Local News Play, Uber’s Latest Lawsuit

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Publishing For Local News Outlets Could Arrive ‘in The Coming Months’ (Columbia Journalism Review)… Lawsuit Claims Uber Co-founders Stole Idea for Ride-Sharing App (Fortune)… Zuckerberg To SMBs: Facebook Pages Are Still The Best Way To Reach Consumers (Fortune)…

Verizon Now Owns an Ad Tech Company — Here’s What It Means for Local

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We caught up with a handful of ad tech executives to breakdown the news and evaluate the potential impact of the a Verizon-AOL tie-up on the mobile, and particularly, local ad tech sector.

Report: More Than Half of Mobile Location Data is Inaccurate

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A new report from Thinknear suggests that mobile’s data problem is only getting worse — at least when it comes to location data…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Adds Calls, Macy’s ‘Digical’ Strategy

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… These New Facebook Ads Come With a Call Button to Ring Up Businesses (AdWeek)… Macy’s Embraces a ‘Digical’ World (AdAge)… Google Continues Debranding Local – Google Maps App Becoming Local’s Forward Facing Brand (Blumenthals)…

GoDaddy Is Changing Its Business — But Investors Worry the Change Isn’t Fast Enough

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Five weeks after going public, and Blake Irving’s turnaround at GoDaddy appears to be working. But investors remain worried that the transitions is not happening fast enough.

Centro Launches Programmatic DSP to Put Mobile and Desktop Inventory in One Place

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The veteran media management firm has rolled out a new demand-side platform that brings together its core desktop private exchanges with SiteScout, the mobile DSP that the company acquired in 2013.

Street Fight Daily: Square Raises $100M, GoDaddy’s Turnaround

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Square Raises More Money to Make Small Business Loans (Fortune)… Liquor Distributors Invest in Tech Firm to Boost E-Commerce in Alcohol (Wall Street Journal)… Deal Talks for Here Mapping Service Expose Reliance on Location Data (New York Times)…

Pinterest SMB Chief: 2 of 3 Businesses on Site Have a Physical Store

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We recently caught up with Joel Meek to talk about how Pinterest is connecting consumer behavior form online to offline and why he thinks ecommerce is the next big growth area for small businesses on social media…