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Lamar Launches $2M Ronald McDonald House DOOH Partnership
As Digital Out of Home (DOOH) continues evolving beyond traditional billboard advertising, media operators are increasingly positioning their networks as flexible, community-connected platforms capable of supporting both brand performance and large-scale public awareness initiatives. This week, Lamar Advertising announced a yearlong partnership with Ronald McDonald House, committing more than $2 million in donated digital Out […]
Dollar General Launches Unified Retail Media Platform
Retail media has expanded rapidly, but for most brands and agencies, it remains fragmented. Onsite retail ads and offsite media campaigns are still planned, executed, and measured in separate systems, leaving marketers to piece together performance after the fact. A new collaboration between Dollar General, Kevel, and The Trade Desk aims to change that by […]
What If You Could Target Mindset, Not Just Location?
As identity signals fade, brands and agencies are being forced to rethink how they target and convert audiences at scale. Seedtag’s NeuroX introduces a new approach, using AI to understand mindset not just location, potentially reshaping how local campaigns drive measurable outcomes. If you are a multi-location brand looking to interact with customers while they’re […]
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The Missing Piece in Multi-Location Marketing: Location-Level Attribution
Multi-location marketing has become dramatically more sophisticated over the past decade. Brands now operate across dozens or hundreds of markets, running paid search, local SEO, social campaigns, listings management, and reputation programs simultaneously. But while marketing execution has scaled, measurement often hasn’t kept up. Multi-location brands often rely on dashboards that show total leads, conversions, […]
How Community-Focused Messaging Drives Loyalty for Multi-Location Brands
There’s a reason the phrase “shop local” continues to resonate. For multi-location brands and the agencies that support them, it’s not just about geographic proximity — it’s about relevance, trust, and shared identity. Consumers don’t build loyalty because a brand is loud. They build loyalty because it feels connected to their community and reflective of […]
Why Stakeholder-Centric Localization Is Becoming Essential for Brand Trust
As audiences demand relevance and authenticity, brands must align messaging with local needs, values, and norms to maintain brand trust and credibility across communities. Localization is no longer optional, it has become foundational to trust. As audiences grow more selective and platforms reward specificity, generic, one-size-fits-all messaging is losing effectiveness. What resonates in one community […]
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Enterprise Local SEO Has a Visibility Problem — And AI Search Is Making It Worse
Enterprise brands and multi-location businesses are investing more than ever in local SEO. Bigger budgets. Advanced tools. Experienced in-house teams and agency partners. Yet many multi-location brands are still missing a critical piece of the puzzle: true visibility at the location level. The culprit isn’t execution. It’s measurement — or more precisely, the lack of […]
Seedtag and IRIS.TV Bring Program-Level AI Targeting to Connected TV
Seedtag and IRIS.TV have formed a partnership to expand privacy-first neuro-contextual targeting in connected TV (CTV). The integration brings IRIS.TV’s program-level content signals into Seedtag’s AI engine, Liz, to improve contextual precision, scale, and transparency for advertisers. The collaboration focuses on strengthening program- and scene-level targeting in CTV without relying on identity-based signals. By combining […]
Guideline Bets on an “AI Factory” to Reinvent Media Planning
Guideline has unveiled a major expansion of its artificial intelligence strategy with the launch of the Guideline AI Factory, an internal innovation engine designed to accelerate how AI powers its ad intelligence data products and media plan management (MPM) technologies. The initiative marks a shift from standalone analytics capabilities toward embedded intelligence that directly supports […]
TikTok Is Becoming a Core Marketing Channel — Not Just a Social App
TikTok, once known purely for bite-sized content and entertainment, has evolved into a place people go to discover brands, learn what’s trending, and make decisions. With over 1 billion monthly active users globally and 200 million in the U.S.1, it’s become where someone might first hear about a product, look up a service, or decide […]
Study Finds Rewards Drive Bigger Baskets – and Brand Switching
A new 2026 study from XCCommerce found that 46.8% of shoppers buy more than planned or switch brands when redeeming rewards. The data suggests promotions are no longer just loyalty tools. They actively drive incremental spend, especially when offers are simple, timely, and delivered through owned channels like email and text. StreetFight spoke with XCCommerce […]
Why Stakeholder-Centric Localization Is Becoming Essential for Brand Trust
As audiences demand relevance and authenticity, brands must align messaging with local needs, values, and norms to maintain brand trust and credibility across communities. Localization is no longer optional, it has become foundational to trust. As audiences grow more selective and platforms reward specificity, generic, one-size-fits-all messaging is losing effectiveness. What resonates in one community […]
Why the VPPA Moment Feels Familiar to Marketers
When the Supreme Court agreed to revisit the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), it immediately reignited concerns about video data, analytics tools, and privacy compliance. But for marketers, the significance of this moment isn’t the legal outcome itself — it’s the déjà vu. This feels familiar because the industry has been here before. As with […]
Tinuiti Report: Social Ad Spend Is Up
Social ad spend is shifting again — and the signals are coming into focus. New Q4 data from Tinuiti shows advertisers regaining confidence in TikTok’s U.S. future, increasing spend after months of pullback, while platforms like Instagram Reels, YouTube, Pinterest, and Reddit continue to absorb growing shares of social ad spend. As automation expands and […]
Six Forces Pushing Sales & Marketing Toward a Breaking Point
Rising capital costs, tightening margins, accelerating AI adoption, and growing privacy pressure are converging into a single reality: inefficiency is no longer affordable. As 2026 approaches, sales and marketing teams are being pushed out of their silos by economic necessity, not organizational theory. Leaders are demanding clear, commercial-grade accountability across the entire go-to-market motion—forcing companies […]
Wix Brings Vibe Coding Out of Experimentation and Into the Enterprise
Website creation is entering a new phase — one where ideas are translated into functioning digital experiences through conversation rather than code. Known as vibe coding, this prompt-driven approach has captured attention for its speed and accessibility, but until now it has largely remained experimental. With the launch of Wix Harmony, Wix is betting that […]
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