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Frankly Launches Audience Targeting Platform for Local Sales Teams

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Local media companies are getting a new way to scale their digital campaigns and more precisely target audience segments. Programmatic ad-buying platform Frankly has announced the launch of an audience extension solution, which expands the number of ways and places where local publishers can reach defined audiences.

Street Fight Daily: Uber Goes Deep on Advertising, Marketers Set Sights on Echo Show

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Is Upping Its Ad Spend and Doubling Down on Data… Marketers Find a New Video Platform: Amazon Echo Show… Google Struggles to Push Its Newsfeed t0 Android Devices…

Why 2017 Investments Will Take Local Companies Farther With Less

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Upserve CEO Angus Davis says that seed funding is the most available right now. And because the overall economy is doing fairly well, wealthy people are increasingly doing angel investments where they previously were not.

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Street Fight Daily: Ebay Sees Mobile Surge, Bing Adds Foursquare

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.EBay’s John Donahoe Seeing a “Staggering Surge” in Mobile Shopping (All Things D)… LocalResponse Teams Up With ShopLocal For In-Store Mobile Ads (TechCrunch)…

Foursquare Adds ‘Updates’ Function for Local Merchants

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The location-based app has rolled out a new tool this afternoon called Local Updates, which allows businesses to publish content (for free) to nearby users who have checked-in in the past. The updates will appear within users’ friends tabs, as well as in businesses’ listings under the explore tab…

Advice for Mayer: Make Yahoo the Local King of the ‘Internet of Things’

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Local and mobile are two areas where Yahoo could shore up its business and, over time, dramatically improve its results. And if it plays the game well, it might be able to shift from a portal to a more dynamic provider of useful things for a hungry, mobile, social Web populace…

Can Local Online Media Rid Itself of Bad Advertising?

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The future of local advertising will likely be the gradual discontinuation of blatant or intrusive media ads, replaced by social media and business generated content marketing. The argument about what constitutes bad advertising will slowly become moot…

In Russia and Eastern Europe, Daily Deals Market Shrinks As Well

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A few weeks ago, I spent some time in the Ukraine, watching a lot of soccer and wandering around Kiev. While there aren’t a lot of hyperlocal publications in Eastern Europe, there is a strong daily deals market, and it is dealing with some of the same issues that the American market is — consolidation, possible contraction — and some different ones as well, particularly potential legal issues…

Street Fight Daily: DMN Buys Pegasus News, Zaarly Launches ‘Anywhere’

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.The Dallas Morning News Buys Hyperlocal Online News Provider Pegasus News (Dallas News)… When DIY plans meet reality: Zaarly unveils “Anywhere” API (GigaOm)… LivingSocial CEO: Why We’re No Groupon (CNBC)…

Forecast: Digital to Comprise More Than 15% of Local Ad Rev by 2016

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The strong growth of digital revenue for local media will continue in 2012, according to a report from BIA/Kelsey. The company’s U.S. Local Media Forecast (2011-2016): Full Edition predicts a 13.1% increase between 2011 and 2012. Revenues from mobile search will jump 77.2%, while online video revenues will increase by more than 50%…

Five 360-Degree Marketing Platforms for SMBs

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One way that SMBs can cut down on the time they spend creating and managing their hyperlocal marketing campaigns is by signing up for a 360-degree platform that brings many of the most popular digital marketing tools under one roof. Here are five comprehensive platforms that small businesses can use to streamline their online marketing efforts…

Street Fight Daily: Yahoo Nabs Google’s Mayer, LivingSocial E-Commerce

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google (NYT)… LivingSocial to Start Selling Merchandise, With Weekly Offerings Tied to Social Experiences (The Washington Post)… Yelp’s Jeremy Stoppelman: A Profile (SF Gate)…

Study Finds That Daily Deals Might Actually Be a ‘Sustainable’ Model

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A new report indicates that the daily deal is far more sustainable than previously thought. The Rice University study took a deep dive into the longitudinal impact of daily deal campaigns and found that key performance metrics like customer acquisition and value remained steady even as businesses ran seven or more campaigns. Street Fight caught up with Utpal Dholakia, the author of the study, to discuss what the research means for the industry…