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Street Fight Daily: Location to Power Local Google Search, Square Turns to Large Businesses
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google to Use Location Data as Primary Factor for Local Search Results… Square Announces the Register, a $999 POS Device for Larger Businesses… Why Selling Higher-End Brands Gives Walmart a Fighting Chance Against Amazon…
On the Various Challenges Facing European Publishers (and Some Solutions)
“As audiences age out, the number of print subscribers will plummet, and as older small business owners retire, old ways of doing business … retire with them as well,” David Mihm writes to Mike Blumenthal. “Legacy media companies that don’t evolve rapidly are going to be left with no audience and no customers.”
Street Fight Daily: Walmart Acts as Media Platform, Amazon Courts Grocers
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Inside Walmart’s Advertising Blitz… Amazon Slashes Seller Fees to Improve Grocery Sales Online… Mobile, YouTube, and Programmatic Are Alphabet’s Workhorses…
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Weather Channel SVP: Changing the Pitch on a Local-by-Local Basis
Eric Hadley, the Weather Channel’s senior vice president for partner solutions and ad trade marketing, recently spoke with Street Fight about the local-national tension in weather coverage and information, the secrets behind Weather Channel’s success on mobile, and his predictions for the coming year. He will be appearing as a speaker at Street Fight Summit in New York later this month as part of an IAB-led panel titled “Using Location to Monetize Mobile Inventory.”
Street Fight Daily: Google Partners with Kia, Cloud Computing and Coupons
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Car Rental Company Avis To Buy ZipCar For $500 Million (TechCrunch)… Google Partners with Kia Motors to Integrate Google Maps and Places into New Car Models (The Next Web)… How Cloud Computing Is Accelerating Context-Aware Coupons, Offers and Promotions (Business2Community)…
Street Fight Staff and Friends Predict 2013’s Top Stories
Last week, some top hyperlocal luminaries weighed in with their predictions for what we can expect to see in the coming year. Today we’ve asked Street Fight staffers and a few friends who regularly contribute to the site to submit their prognostications for what is to come in the realm of location-based services, local search, daily deals, and hyperlocal content…
Street Fight’s Most Popular Stories of 2012
On this last day of 2012, here’s a look back at some of the Street Fight stories that really piqued your interest this year (at least as far as pageviews go). We’re grateful for all of your support this past year, and we look forward to bringing you more great content, research, and events about sustainable hyperlocal business models in 2013!
Street Fights of 2012: Making Sense of Content Economics
Hyperlocal media continued to wrestle with the economics of content, as some of the most promising concepts of years past were put to the test in 2012. The Journatic scandal revealed the ethical quicksand that can accompany innovation. Meanwhile, the iterations at Patch reaffirmed that original local journalism produced by professional journalists is difficult to scale…
Street Fight Daily: Patch Editors Anticipate Cuts, Foursquare Opens Data
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Patch Editors Say Staff and Budgets are Being Cut in 2013 (Romenesko)… Foursquare to Make Full Names Public and Share More Check-ins with Businesses (The Verge)… Foursquare to Make Full Names Public and Share More Check-ins with Businesses (The Verge)… Mobile’s Path to Glory (The Wall Street Journal)…
Street Fights of 2012: The Battle Over SMB CRM
After two years of watching siloed firms like Groupon explode, 2012 saw a shift in how companies approached the hyperlocal market. Business-to-business plays, particularly in the marketing space, emerged as a more efficient alternative to the early pioneers…
Street Fights of 2012: The Mobile Search for Local Discovery
So 2012 was mobile’s debutant year, with it introduced to society at large but still very much in the process of growing up. For local search, that meant mobile queries jumped by nearly 56% while desktop growth slowed to a little more than 12% in 2012…
PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Triton Digital
In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss news from Placecast, Facebook, Foursquare, Grokr, Sensewhere, Shopular, Chase Bank, UrbanCompass and Tapit Media. Plus Mommy Googles Santa Claus and special Guest Patrick Reynolds of Triton Digital…
Street Fight Daily: Same-Day Delivery, Managing Competitors in Hyperlocal
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Instantly Yours, for a Fee (The New York Times).. Making of a Hyperlocal: Competitors (Sarah Hartley).. Social-Local Optimization: A Strategic Imperative in 2013 (iMedia Connection)…
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