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Enhancing Fan Experience with Advanced Technology
In today’s data-driven world, sports franchises are not just competing on the field, but also in the realm of fan engagement. Navigating the complexities of fan data—spanning ticket sales, merchandise purchases, digital experiences, and season ticket holder interactions—has become a crucial challenge for teams aiming to understand their audience on a deeper level. It’s no […]
Seedtag Is Ready for Contextual Advertising’s Renaissance
Brian Danzis is a busy bee. In addition to running Seedtag as President, North America, he’s been on the speaking circuit. Most recently he was at Advertising Week in New York in October, speaking on a panel about CTV and retail media. In September, Danzis appeared at the Cynopsis Big TV Summit on a panel […]
Multi-Family Housing: The Brand Experience Part 2
These days, MULO (multi-location) brands are not just restaurants, retailers, and service businesses. As society’s housing and work needs evolve, apartment complexes, residential property managers, and live/work landlords are also building brands. The first part of this series dealt with the unique challenges of MULO real estate brands. We also spoke to Lia Nichole Smith, […]
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AdTech Leaders Navigate Ethical Frontiers for Generative AI
Generative AI has had a breakout year in 2023, but as more adtech companies adopt the technology to optimize campaigns, analyze behavior, and personalize both online and offline experiences, consumers are pushing back. According to a survey by Salesforce, there’s a growing distrust of AI and companies that use it. The race to build out […]
New Partnership Seeks to Address CTV Advertising Gaps
Let’s hear it for the lower funnel: that could be the rallying cry of QSR and financial-services clients this fourth quarter. Amid possible economic softening, the lower funnel is a tried and true performance-marketing path for all kinds of KPI’s from engagement to sales. To more effectively measure sales outcomes from lower-funnel marketing, Attain, a permissioned-commerce […]
Rowan: The Innovative Brand Piercing a Market Need
Piercings (ear, nose, tongue, and other unmentionable body parts) have existed for centuries. In fact, some of the earliest evidence of body piercing dates back 5300 years! You can be pretty sure that when the mummy had their ears pierced, the conditions were less-than-sterile. Ear- and body-piercing studios are commonplace these days, as body modification […]
Seedtag Analysis: Parents More Focused on Children’s Health for Back-to-School
As Managing Director, U.S., for Seedtag, Brian Danzis must be keenly aware of trends and changes in all aspects of digital and linear media to drive growth for the company’s clients, which have included Applebee’s, Gillette, JetBlue, and the NBA. For the past several weeks, he’s been focused on the back-to-school shopping season and how […]
What Can We Learn from Subway’s Battered Online Reputation?
The biggest story to come out of the Nation’s Restaurant News’ Top 500 rankings in 2023 wasn’t who was on top, but that Subway reputation issues had tumbled it to the bottom. After decades of expansion that led to Subway becoming the world’s largest fast food chain in terms of locations by the early 2000s, […]
Come to Place
What place? Place! When? November 7th. OK. But what place? Place! No…that’s not a typo or a reboot of the old “Who’s on First?” Abbott & Costello routine. The Place23 Conference is a one-day event brought to you by Localogy, Street Fight’s “sister” company. With Street Fight hosting 2 sessions (more to come on this), […]
More NFL Advertisers Are Running Split-Screen Ads — Here’s Why
As the kickoff for a highly-anticipated NFL season draws closer and teams gear up for action on the field, advertisers are looking at making their own big plays. The 2023/2024 NFL season is poised to be an advertising gold rush, with new digital advertising innovations enabling unprecedented consumer engagement, tracking, and monetization opportunities for brands. […]
Introducing BatBox. After Eatertainment Comes Sportstainment
We recently sat down with Craig Winning, Managing Director, Batbox. Formerly involved in eatertainment brands Punch Bowl Social and TOCA Social, he sees an exciting new augmented reality-powered and simulated playfuture for the category. He calls it Sportstainment. We’ve already seen sports like pickleball and golf in combination with finer dining throughout the U.S. Now, baseball […]
Back-to-School Shopping Data Is In — Are Retail Marketers Ready to Pivot?
As the summer days begin to wane, parents across the nation are gearing up for the annual back-to-school shopping frenzy. A recent data analysis conducted by Lotame, a global technology company that provides data enrichment solutions for enterprises, sheds light on the spending patterns of parents during this bustling season — offering valuable insights for […]
Report: Gen Z Welcomes Ad Tracking
When Gen Z goes on a voyage of product discovery, they usually do so via social media, and boy, do they like to be tracked—much more so than their older cohorts. According to findings released today and titled, “From A to (Gen) Z: How and Where Young Consumers Are Shopping,” by Tinuiti, the largest independent performance […]
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