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Web.com Acquires Acquisio, Adding to Its Suite of Small Business Products

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Web.com announced today that it is acquiring the assets of Montreal-based Acquisio and adding them to its growing stable of small business digital products. Acquisio brings to the table a data science tools platform that increasingly focuses on artificial intelligence and automation.

Using Mobile Location Data to Target World Series Fans

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Major advertisers paid upwards of $500,000 for each 30-second TV spot during the World Series this year, but using real-time mobile location data, savvy brand marketers could have reached targeted groups of consumers for much less.

Location Analytics Tracks Human Movement Before Hurricane Irma

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In the wake of an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season, Placed looked at offline consumer behaviors in the days leading up to Hurricane Irma, which slammed into Florida in September. The results paint a picture of predictability around unpredictable situations.

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How Media Buyers Buy Hyperlocal

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In a Street Fight webinar sponsored by YP Thursday, Mitch
Bernstein, the director of client strategy at Neo@Ogilvy, and YP’s
Onil Gunawardana discussed the value of hyperlocal from a media
buyer’s perspective, highlighting its ability drive conversions in
a still-nascent mobile space and provide marketers with deeper
insights into their consumer’s path to purchase…

Openings & New Hires at Angie’s List, Topix, Google, Signpost and more…

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One hyperlocal publisher expands (Topix) while another contracts (The Daily Voice). Angie’s List moves on from its CFO, JiWire hires a former Yahoo exec, and the head of The Local Search Association decamps (after 25 years) to head up The Association of Directory Publishers. Plus, gigs at PayPal, comScore, AOL, LinkedIn, Newsle, Amazon and more…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — WillowTree

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan report back from DX3 Canada. Meanwhile, ShopSavvy transitions to a retail app and U-Haul brings augmented reality to Detroit. Plus special guest Blake Sirach, VP Design for WillowTree — the makers of the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center mobile app experience.

Street Fight Daily: Google Breaks Up Mapping Unit, Boston Phoenix Shuttered

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Google Breaks Up Mapping and Commerce Unit (AllThingsD)… Boston Phoenix to Close; Portland, Providence Papers Remain Open (Boston.com)… Ok, So Maybe Greed Is Groupon, But The Much Bigger Issue Is The Product (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Announces Second Annual West Coast Summit

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Following up on a January event that gathered over 400 hyperlocal industry professionals in New York City, Street Fight is pleased to announce that we will be bringing our trademark conference to the West Coast again on June 4th, 2013. Street Fight Summit West 2013 will be held once again at the Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco…

Village Soup Shows ‘Native’ Ads Can Work on Local News Sites

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With the recent push toward “native” advertising, we’ve learned (if we hadn’t known already) that ads can be “news.” In terms of local information value, ads-as-news may never trump the apartment-house fire that leaves several families homeless — but it has become clear that there’s room for both, especially in the local digital space…

Case Study: Steakhouse Takes a More-Is-More Approach to Marketing

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At Franklin Steakhouse, manager Frank Oliver is always on the lookout for ways to enmesh his restaurant with the local community. In addition to tried-and-true tactics like partnering with neighboring businesses and hosting fundraisers, Oliver is taking a hyperlocal approach to digital marketing through platforms like Facebook and Yelp…

Street Fight Daily: PayPal Guns For Square, Groupon’s Lefkofsky Speaks

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.PayPal Debuts iPad App, Furthering Rivalry With Square (AllThingsD)… Eric Lefkofsky’s First Interview As Groupon’s CEO (Fast Company)… Study: 55 Percent Of Mobile-Search Driven Conversions Happen In One Hour Or Less (Search Engine Land)…

Overlaying Local: Do We Want Listings in Context?

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Maponics is working on an initiative that includes overlays of demographics and what they call “lifestyle data” on top of maps. The idea is to create a value-added component to traditional maps that may help to bring primary mapping information into a meaningful context for users…

Why Redbeacon Founder Ethan Anderson Returned to Local

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A little over a year after selling Redbeacon to Home Depot, the company’s founder is back on the scene with a new startup, MyTime. Street Fight recently caught up with Anderson to talk about life after Redbeacon, building a local marketplace, and finding a seam in a cluttered hyperlocal space…