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Amid an Array of Metrics, Gannett Seeks to Know the ‘Why’ of User Choices

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Gannett’s newspaper chain has 110 million unique digital visitors each month putting it in the exosphere of news and information sites. But these days Jason Jedlinski, VP of product management at the company, is more focused on quality than quantity — what those many millions of users want to read and why.

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…

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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…

Street Fight Daily: More Journatic Drama, New Hyperlocal Co-op

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Chicago Tribune Discovers Plagiarism, Suspends Work with Journatic (Poynter)… Banyan Project Planning Its First Community-owned News Co-op (Nieman Lab)… The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong (Both Sides of the Table)…

Journatic Takes Double Hit: Editor Quits and Tribune Suspends Service

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Community news provider Journatic has been rocked by the back-to-back resignation of its new chief editor and the decision of the Chicago Tribune to indefinitely suspend the service as operator of its 90 TribLocal publications…

Scoutmob Adds Etsy-like Commerce, More Content

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In late 2011, there was a lot of talk about the convergence of content and commerce, heralding editorial context as huge driver for local plays. Since then, things have cooled off a bit, but, fresh off a $3.4 million series A round of financing, mobile deals play ScoutMob is doubling down on content/commerce in a big way…

New Tool Helps Publishers Find National Stories to Localize

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A new application unveiled by the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern University promises hyperlocal publishers a new, efficient means of story generation. Currently available in beta, Local Angle offers publishers and editors the platform to search for locally relevant news across the national wire…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Poynt, Adcentricity

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss Poynt’s filing for bankruptcy protection and Amazon’s UpNext buy; Nokia gets out of mobile payments while everyone else is getting into them; news from Google and IBM; and special guest, David Peres of Adcentricity…

Street Fight: LevelUp ‘Zeros Out,’ Andrew Mason Waits Tables

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.LevelUp’s Plan to Supercharge the Mobile Payments Market: Make It Free (All Things D)… The Education of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason (Businessweek)… LivingSocial Partners with Madison Square Garden, AEG and More for Live Event Offers (The Next Web)…