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EVs, Gas, and Targeted Marketing: The Future of Car Dealerships, According to Stirista

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Car dealerships, like many MULO (multi-location) businesses, are evolving. You can now buy used cars online, some dealerships are opening showrooms in shopping centers (rather than on traditional lots), and consumers are shopping around for the best deals nationwide. About 18K car dealerships exist in the U.S. today, but how consumers shop at them (and […]

Klaviyo Integration : Leveraging Pinterest for Enhanced Social Commerce Street Fight

Klaviyo Integration: Leveraging Pinterest for Enhanced Social Commerce

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Social commerce is growing rapidly, with US retail social-commerce sales projected to hit $80 billion, representing 5% of total US e-commerce by 2025. To stay competitive, brands must offer personalized experiences across various social media platforms.  To better support this direction, Klaviyo has expanded its ecosystem of over 350 integrations with the addition of Pinterest. […]

The People Have Spoken: BrightLocal Reveals Consumer MULO Review Ratings street fight

The People Have Spoken: BrightLocal Reveals Review Ratings

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When consumers search their small screens to decide where to shop, eat, buy groceries, or exercise, they often consult reviews. In fact, poor scores may send someone off to your competitors’ brands—never to return. We all know that UGC (user-generated content) and consumer reviews play a big role in decision-making today. The annual consumer review […]

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The Six Building Blocks of Successful, Revenue-Generating Partnerships

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There is a blueprint for getting started with partnerships — six basic components that will give any partnership a solid and scalable foundation to build on. After over 20 years of watching and helping businesses launch successful partnerships, I can vouch for this six-point checklist.

Love Languages: 5 Ways to Earn Brand Loyalty 

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Hard metrics define brand loyalty’s value, but brand loyalty is really a feeling we earn by inspiring love, trust, and connections. It’s time to embrace that.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Heineken Uses Projection Ads to Reach NYC Office Workers

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Heineken using projection ads to target late-night NYC office workers, GeoGuessr bringing you virtual tourism, Radar launching “Place Matching” to improve POI data, and H&M and Amazon teaming up to test tech-enabled COS stores.

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Contextual and Native Come Together to Help Advertisers Win the Open Web

Contextual and Native Come Together to Help Advertisers Win the Open Web

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Both contextual and native take a natural and intuitive approach, rather than a disruptive and distracting one. If a seamless experience is the goal, context may even be a more appropriate mode for targeting native campaigns than third-party cookie targeting ever was.

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AI-Powered Digital Advertising is Exciting, But Is It New?

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While the integration of generative AI into virtually every modern marketing and advertising platform is exciting, it’s not exactly surprising. Despite the hype surrounding AI and its influence on the digital advertising industry at large, AI has been used in adtech for years. 

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CEO Adam Golomb on How Restaurant Chain Primanti Bros Is Evolving

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Primanti Bros. has 41 locations across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland, with three more to open by year’s end. CEO Adam Golomb and his team are deep in planning for summer events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Primanti Bros. 

Reveal Mobile Launches Solution to Offer Authoritative In-Flight Campaign Insights

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Reveal Mobile is launching an OOH measurement solution for mid-market brands today, designed to let marketers know how their OOH campaigns are performing while their campaigns are still running — a major improvement with the potential to radically impact the performance of outdoor campaigns. 

ChatGPT Will Shake Up Marketing. That’s Good

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Now that ChatGPT has entered the conversation, so to speak, and AI chatbot tools are about to shake up content marketing. But don’t panic — that’s a good thing.

Arity’s Driver Data Reaches 200 Million Connections

Arity’s Driver Data Reaches 200 Million Connections

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Arity, a mobile data and analytics company, has actually increased its first-party data set from one million seven years ago to 200 million connections as of this year. Mobility data from vehicles can show movement patterns and behaviors in multiple and varied locations and result in more relevant ad targeting.

Yext Launches No-Code Page Builder to Power Localized Marketing

Yext Launches No-Code Page Builder to Power Localized Marketing

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Yext this week made another power move by launching a no-code page builder. No-code websites may sound most relevant to SMBs, but they’ll also have huge implications for multi-location brands looking to stand up localized marketing websites across hundreds or thousands of locations without large marketing teams.

Retailers Move to Automate 70% of Rote Store Tasks by 2025

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Generative AI is the talk of the retail town as marketers look to use it to connect with customers, but many retailers are gearing up to use AI for another purpose: automating routine in-store tasks.

FKA CGO: ‘Any Agency That Says These Are Easy Times Is Simply Lying’

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Is the agency model inherently broken, or is the executive turnover taking place at large global firms pushing the digital media landscape in a more positive direction? If you ask Linsey Loy, the newly-appointed chief growth officer at Formerly Known As, or FKA, it’s most definitely the former.

Razorfish - Consumer Privacy Paradox

Razorfish: Consumer Privacy Paradox

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According to a just-released study of online consumer behavior, what consumers say and what they do are not always aligned, especially when it comes to their data privacy.