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Street Fight LIVE Insights: Stopping at C-Stores with Mike Templeton
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
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
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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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 […]
Basis Announces FreeWheel Partnership to Democratize CTV Advertising
As more TV watchers cut the cord and shift to streaming services, connected TV advertising is seeing a surge in popularity. CTV advertising spend hit a record-breaking $1 billion in June, and now more programmatic firms are looking at partnerships with companies specializing in CTV as a hedge against the evolving landscape. Just this week, […]
Intango Grows U.S. Footprint with REIGNN Acquisition
Intango is a contextual and search advertising technology company that designs and executes tailored marketing and monetization solutions. Despite being in business for more than a decade, and working with some of the world’s largest brands, the Tel Aviv-based company has managed to fly under the radar in the U.S. market — until now. As […]
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