News and Analysis

Dstillery and CultureWaves Partner on Observed Behavior-Based Marketing

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CultureWaves has partnered with Dstillery to launch VOICE, a product that offers behavior-based segmentation for marketers. The new tool will allow marketers to overlay behavioral analysis on mobile device data in order to dig into the reasons for customer behavior.

Street Fight Daily: Google Maps Gets Social, The Hot New Ad Trend Is … Billboards?

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TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Google Maps Gets Social, Enabling Users to Collaborate on Choosing Local Options… Billboards—Yes, Billboards—Are Having a Heyday in the Digital World… Three Takeaways From DMEXCO 2018: Top Concerns in Digital Marketing…

Placed and Adobe Advertising Cloud Launch TV Attribution Partnership

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Adobe Advertising Cloud and Placed, an online-to-offline attribution company, have launched a partnership that will measure whether linear television advertising drives in-store visits. Through the partnership, Adobe will provide the data used to place ads, which Placed then examines to connect ads to store visits.

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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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…

Why Is the Local Market So Elusive for Tech Companies?

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The constraints of cost, critical mass, and time spawn a vicious cycle that hinders innovative new technology adoption in the local market. The promise of hyperlocal technology is alive and well, but any new startup aiming to crack the hyperlocal code needs to keep these things in mind…

Street Fight Daily: Verizon Buys AOL, Facebook Tests Search

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4 Billion (New York Times)… In Hint of Ambition, Facebook Tests Search Engine to Share Links (Wall Street Journal)… After Several Public Google Maps Hacks, Google Forced To Suspend Map Maker To Prevent More Fake Edits (Search Engine Land)…

5 Analytics Platforms That Can Help Brands Understand Mobile Advertising

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Mobile advertising analytics platforms are helping brands and agencies make better sense of the streams of data flowing in from their hyperlocal campaigns. More than half of marketing executives surveyed by Forbes Insights said they’re already using analytics to measure marketing campaign returns, and more than seven-in-10 expect to increase their reliance on data analytics […]