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SMB Index: Local Stocks Make Gains in September

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After a flat month in August, the SCP SMB Index gained 2.1%, consistent with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones. Xero led the gainers, up 17.7% in the month of September, while GrubHub led the list of losers down 7.8% during September.

Raise Report: Deliveroo, Urgently, Playbuzz Score New Funding

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Every two weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week’s edition includes funding for Synup, AtScale, FogHorn, and ViralGains.

LBMA Podcast: Denny’s, Ubimo, Ikea, GasBuddy

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This Week in Location Based Marketing is a weekly video podcast from the Location Based Marketing Association with Asif Khan and Aubriana Lopez. On the show: Ubimo, Verizon + Snapchat, Stratacache buys Walkbase, Ikea acquires TaskRabbit, CDecaux, American Airlines.

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Voice Media Group Enters Content Partnership With Foursquare

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Alt-weekly publisher Voice Media Group has announced a partnership with Foursquare that will make event content from VMG’s Voice Places initiative available to users of the location-based app. “This was a natural next step in terms of combining our curated local content with the experience that they provide around location and events,” Scott Tobias, CEO of Voice Media Group, told Street Fight…

5 Ad Exchanges for Local Publishers

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In an effort to gain control of their ads and ensure that their inventory is being sold at the highest possible rates, more hyperlocal publishers are banding together and joining private ad exchanges. Here are five private exchanges that local publishers can use to gain control of their inventories…

Local Listings Spread — From One Site to Hundreds

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One recurring theme at last week’s Street Fight Summit concerned the ongoing project of creating, organizing, and aggregating data and content associated with location. For SMBs, the new marketing strategy favors dispersed deployment of enhanced content across multiple media and mobile services…

Street Fight Daily: Pushpins Snapped Up, In-Store Payments Boom

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.The Full Story of Pushpins Acquisition by Ebates Parent Performance Marketing Brands (PandoDaily)… Forrester: Proximity Payment is Fastest-Growing Segment of Mobile Payments (Mobile Commerce Daily)… How To Make Foursquare Fun Again (Business Insider)…

#SFSNYC Recap: The Next Generation in Hyperlocal

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We’re just winding down from an excellent week of conversations about hyperlocal at the Street Fight Summit in New York. Many thanks to our speakers and sponsors and everyone who joined us. Our next major conference will take place in San Francisco in early June; stay tuned for more information in coming weeks. In case you missed it, here are links to Street Fight’s coverage of the event…

Fragmentation in the Device Landscape and What It Might Mean for Local

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We know that the great mobile shift has arrived. This does not mean the end of the laptop era entirely, as any user of processor-intensive software like Photoshop knows. But it does mean that we are using our devices in ways that have become heavily context dependent…

Openings & New Hires at Advance Digital, Neustar, Factual, Yellowbook & More

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A new big-name CMO arrives at LivingSocial to shake things up, while a senior technology exec departs there. Brad Moore leaves Tribune Company. And now that the new year is fully upon us, employers are posting openings for a range of jobs, from digital account director to director of client services, as well as for SEO manager and manager of publisher solutions. Find your job now!

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Waze, Spun

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan have nine different stories, including their bewilderment at Waze; why they think 4sqTrigger is onto something; and UrbanAirship’s progress with Tello. Also Scott Lindenbaum of Spun talks about using a goat for location-based marketing…

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Surrounded, Mobile Advertising’s Future

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Is It Time Local Site Called for Yelp? (The Wall Street Journal)… Is Location Based Advertising The Future Of Mobile Marketing And Mobile Advertising? (Forbes)… Openings & New Hires at Advance Digital, Neustar, Factual, Yellowbook, Apple and More (Street Fight)…

For Hyperlocals, How Long the Roller-Coaster Ride?

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Borrell Associates delivered an upbeat 2013 projection last week for an increase of 31% in ad spending in the local digital space. But even as the outlook seems brighter for local online, highly regarded hyperlocal editor and publisher Mike Fourcher announced his plans to leave the helm of his two neighborhood sites in Chicago…