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Street Fight Daily: An Impending Ad-Blocking Nightmare, Should Consumers Sell Their Data?
TODAY IN LOCAL & DIGITAL MARKETING AND MEDIA… Gen-Z and Mobile Are a Developing Ad-Blocking Nightmare… If Privacy Is Dead, Some Argue, People Should Sell Their Data… Raise Report: Factual, Uberall, SOCi Secure New Funding…
Uberall Acquires Rival Navads, Announces $25M in Fresh Funding
Location marketing firm Uberall has acquired rival Navads and raised an additional $25 million in venture funding after closing a series B for the same amount just earlier this year. The exact terms of the acquisition deal are undisclosed.
Logi Analytics Leverages Future Insights with Predictive Tool
With the understanding that applications are more valuable when they show future outcomes, as opposed to past results, the business intelligence firm Logi Analytics is launching a product today that will allow users to access and leverage future insights, enabled by machine learning, directly from their existing applications.
Commentary
The Benefit of Beacons Is in the Past and the Future — Not in the Present
The discussion around bluetooth beacons and other proximity messaging technologies has largely centered on real-time advertising. But the benefit of beacons extends well beyond the “here and now” scenario; the devices create new opportunities for marketers to build deeper audience segmentations and more advanced location targeting that we’ve barely begun to explore…
Should Local Advertising be Bracing Itself for On-Demand?
For the local advertising industry, which is still withstanding ripples with its shift from print to digital, why not look ahead to on-demand? Just because expectations among SMB owners have been conditioned towards moderate turnaround doesn’t mean an SMB wouldn’t be absolutely thrilled to have their newly purchased website and SEM package running tomorrow instead of next month…
How to Maintain a Rational Social Marketing Strategy in a Confusing Landscape
Small business owners may find themselves perplexed by the variety of opportunities to engage socially with consumers. Of course, it would be premature to suggest that any SMB needs an Ello marketing strategy. But there’s an advantage to be gained in keeping your marketing strategy attuned to the groups actively pursuing interests relevant to your business…
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Why Instacart’s $2 Billion Valuation Doesn’t Spell Bubble
No story has rekindled concerns about valuations like the ascent of Instacart, a local logistics firm whose recently raised $220 million at a $2 billion dollar valuation. We caught up with Instacart’s Nilam Ganenthiran to talk about how a delivery network could reshape the competitive landscape of local grocery markets…
Local Marketing a Rising Priority for National Brands
A new research microstudy commissioned by leading local marketing platform Balihoo and Gatepoint Research found that national brands across a variety of industries understand that driving consumers to locations or local agents is critical to their overall marketing strategy — and that local marketing efforts outperform national campaigns…
6 Ways SMBs Can Use Mobile to Reach Targeted Audiences
Whether or not a mobile campaign proves successful for a small business hinges less on the content of the campaign than on whether the right audience is being targeted. In many cases, it’s up to hyperlocal vendors to educate SMB clients about the possibilities in mobile audience targeting. Here are six takeaways that vendors should focus on in those discussions…
Street Fight Daily: Expedia Buys Travelocity, Private Equity Eyes Digital First
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Expedia Buys Travelocity, Merging Two of the Web’s Biggest Travel Sites… Cerberus, Apollo Bidding for Digital First Media (Capital New York)… For Digital, SMBs Need Somebody—and Money—to Lean On (eMarketer)…
Report: Digital Now Represents 40% of Local Advertising Market
A new report released by Borrell Associates suggests that digital advertising will continue to be responsible for nearly all growth in local advertising in 2015. By the end of the year, the report estimates local digital advertising spending will hit $47.8 billion…
Big Possibilities for Brands With New Facebook Targeting Tool
In October, Facebook launched a long awaited feature for many small business marketers: the ability to reach people nearby. Now big brands are finding ways to to leverage the new Facebook Local Awareness ads — and do so at scale…
LBMA Podcast: Snapchat for Business, Iconeme CEO
On the show: Panasonic reinvents the retail shelf; the Locr platform; Moovit closes $50m to help public transportation; Deehubs makes us all vandals; Softcard deflating?; Uber Cargo launches in Hong Kong; RetailNext and StepsAway; Path Talk pretty; Je Suis Charlie app…
YP Now Lets You Target Mobile Ads Based on Desktop Searches
The company has announced a new partnership with Tapad that will allow marketers to use the company’s desktop search data to targets ads to the the same user on their mobile device. The move should help open the impressions in the firm’s mobile ad network to the billions of dollars spent on retargeting campaigns…
Why Call Tracking Works Across a Variety of Local Marketing Contexts
Call tracking and analytics can be implemented across any media channel — although online search, directories and context-based marketing are especially important avenues. The key is to include a tracking component to measure and capture post-call, offline information and behavior in order to identify real advertising value…
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