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Tinuiti Q2 Ad Report Sees Spike in AI-Powered Digital Campaigns Street Fight

Tinuiti Q2 Ad Report Sees Spike in AI-Powered Digital Campaigns

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So how did the digital ad economy perform in Q2? Tinuiti explains it all for us in its Digital Ads Benchmark Report, released July 24, which looks at quarterly trends across Google, Meta, Amazon and other dominant platforms. First off, AI-powered digital campaigns drove spending up for the likes of Meta Advantage + and Google Performance […]

Google's Privacy Shift: Balancing User Privacy, Ad Utility, and Industry Concerns Street Fight

Google’s Privacy Shift: Balancing User Privacy, Ad Utility, and Industry Concerns

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A recent Google approach for the Privacy Sandbox moves away from deprecating third-party cookies. Instead, it introduces a new experience in Chrome where users can make informed choices about their privacy settings across their web browsing, with the flexibility to adjust these choices. This change aims to give users more control over their privacy while […]

BUST: Clothes & Pizza Street Fight

BUST: Clothes & Pizza

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Last month, two very different MULO (multi-location) brands, Bob’s Stores and Mod Pizza,  had significant financial challenges. MULO retailers and restaurants shuttering their brick-and-mortar operations or restructuring is certainly not major news these days. However, the recent announcements from these two brands prove that just because a consumer category is stable or growing, some businesses […]

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Location-Based Marketing Association: McDonald’s Gets Personal at the Drive Thru

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Verve Group partnering with Getty Images, Snapchat adding Ghost Trails for your friends’ location history, McDonald’s getting more personalized at the drive thru by recognizing car license plates, and SafeGraph partnering with PredictHQ for location intelligence.

Is Data the Key to Surviving the Great Resignation?

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To navigate these challenging times, businesses need to create more efficient hiring processes and outline ways to effectively retain the talent they have already hired. Accomplishing both goals will require the use of quality data sources. Here are some ways that data can help companies survive The Great Resignation. 

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Designing a Data Collection Strategy That Improves Brand Safety

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As the consumer landscape shifts, it’s critical to dig deeper and get to know your customers and understand their changing preferences—not based on guesses or assumptions, but on clean, accurate first-party data that you collect and own. That work begins with creating a solid, privacy-centric data collection strategy.

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Digital Marketing Trends for Agencies

Top 7 Digital Marketing Trends for Agencies

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To keep up, agencies need to take initiative as soon as a marketing trend begins. This not only helps your clients stand out in their markets, but it also helps you become a leading agency in your own right. Here are the top digital marketing trends for agencies that you should jump on quickly in 2023.

Consumers Value Both Privacy and Personalization

Consumers Value Both Privacy and Personalization

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Marketing publications often discuss data privacy and personalization as if they are in tension. In reality, consumers want both.

How to Fix Costly Subpar Data at the Source

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As marketers increasingly rely on their own first-party data, the elephant in the room needs to be addressed: subpar data will yield subpar outcomes. In fact, according to Gartner, data of poor quality costs organizations an average of $12.9 million every year. 

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These Retailers Are Turning E-Commerce Websites into Media Networks

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As retailers look for new sources of revenue, many are ramping up the ad selling sides of their businesses and expanding their partner programs to include more self-serve functions.

Yext Chat Conversational AI for Enterprises

Yext’s Foray into Conversational AI for Enterprises

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Move over, Google. Yext has launched an AI-powered chatbot in closed beta. Known as Yext Chat, it lets enterprises integrate a white-labeled chat function on their web properties. This can be for a variety of customer service use cases.

Goodbye, Wild West. Hello, New Data Strategy

Goodbye, Wild West. Hello, New Data Strategy

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While many brands see the new data paradigm as something to rally against or covertly manipulate, most see the inherent opportunities — opportunities that can create greater customer loyalty and, importantly, higher long-term revenue. Here’s how marketers are adapting their data strategies to the new frontier. 

Multi-Location Marketing Challenges

The Most Common Multi-Location Marketing Challenges and How to Overcome Them

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To make your life as a multi-channel marketer just a little bit easier, let’s talk about four of the most common multi-location marketing challenges—and how to overcome them.

Brands Seek to Communicate Beyond Basic Product Labels

Brands Seek to Communicate Beyond Basic Product Labels

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Many consumers today don’t just want to know the basics of what a product entails. They want to know how it was made and whether it aligns with their values. Product labels are evolving to meet the demand.

Pinterest Leads the Charge on Shoppability

Pinterest Leads the Charge on Shoppability

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Even as Instagram pulls back on live shopping, another social platform is diving in further: Pinterest. The company has slowly leaned into shoppability over the past few years with more transactional features for direct commerce. Those moves include a “Shop” tab where products within videos and pins are shoppable. And on the merchant-facing end, Pinterest […]

Report: Consumers Seek New Channels to Access Online Reviews

Report: Consumers Seek New Channels to Access Online Reviews

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According to a new consumer survey conducted by the reputation management company Chatmeter, 39% of people say they like the idea of using technology like ChatGPT for review information, and more than 30% like the idea of reading customer reviews in the metaverse.