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How to Influence Customers Through Online Reviews

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As major brands look to capitalize on the most effective and trustworthy ad formats, they are refining their strategies for managing online reviews. Here are six ideas that brand marketers should keep in mind as they look for new ways to influence the way consumers interact with their online reviews.

Nexstar Is Big in Local TV — And Now It’s Aiming to Grow Its Digital News Sites

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The emphasis of the local coverage on the company’s stations is often on crime and crashes — and that practice carries over to most of the digital sites. The net result is that Nexstar’s image can be distorted by commodity-level content that undercuts its strategy.

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Stock Plummets as Rivals Accumulate, Snap Stares Down First Earnings Report

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Yelp Is Getting Eviscerated After Toning Down Expectations for 2017… Snap’s First Earnings Report: Will User Growth Be More Twitter or Facebook?… Walmart’s Jet Opens the ‘Grocery Store of the Future’ in NYC…

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JiWire: 34% of In-Store Consumers Compare Prices on Mobile Devices

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“Retailers are becoming increasingly concerned with consumers using their locations as a showroom, then finding the best price on their mobile device and purchasing elsewhere,” David Stass, JiWire’s VP of Marketing, told Street Fight. Meanwhile, only 11% of JiWire’s respondents said that they had used a mobile payments platform like Google Wallet…

Shazam-ing the Super Bowl and the Marketing Value of Audio Tagging

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Location-based marketing isn’t limited to mobile — it’s about how media is integrated into our lives no matter where we are. Nearly 50% of smartphone owners use their mobile device to search for product information after seeing a TV ad, according to a new study from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).

Street Fight Daily: 02.15.12

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...

Why News Companies Can’t Get On Top Of Digital Advertising (PaidContent)…

Survey: 69% Use Print YP in SF Bay Area (ScreenWerk)…

Leonsis: Groupon a ‘Much Bigger Idea’ Than a Directory or City Guide (BIA/Kelsey)…

What Merchants Want: Customers!

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What do merchants want in a hyperlocal ad campaign? In our interviews with more than 50 local business owners across the U.S., there were some clear answers: first and foremost, they want to drive new customers into their businesses. Geographic targeting delivers customers who are most ready to buy.

When Syndicating Hyperlocal Content, Cover Your Assets

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Publishers looking to syndicate content to other sites must make sure not to give up the keys to the house. Syndicating content to generate revenue is not a new idea, but contributors often overlook the rights they may be giving up by partnering with another media property.

6 White-Label Deal Platforms for Publishers

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Launching a branded deals program gives publishers an additional stream of revenue in a notoriously difficult advertising market, potentially increasing a media company’s annual advertising revenue anywhere from 15% to 30%. These programs also give community newspapers, hyperlocal blogs, television stations, and radio stations a way to capitalize on the trust and authority they’ve developed with their audiences over the years.

Street Fight Daily: 02.14.12

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups.

New Pew Report About Advertising on News Sites Should Open Eyes (PoMo Blog)…

The Secret To Making Money From Great Content (Business Insider)…

Hyperlocal Marketing Offers Powerful Returns (Portfolio)…

Comparing the Pros and Cons of 5 Top Location APIs

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With the rise of location-based services and apps, the availability of geo-specific data has grown more important than ever. With the recent sale and shuttering of SimpleGeo, a start-up that was beginning to turn heads in the geo-data field, many are wondering where to go for the location data they need. Here are five major services offering similar types of location data feeds…

Street Fight Daily: 02.13.12

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...

Groupon Adds ‘Thumbs Up’ Feedback on Deals (Bloomberg)…

Foursquare and NFC: How the Two Can Help Each Other (GigaOm)…

How NPR Drove Traffic to a Local Station by Geotargeting Stories on Facebook (Nieman Lab)…

NPR’s Bob Garfield: Hyperlocal News Ventures Doomed

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Media analyst Bob Garfield has put a voice behind the industry rumblings about hyperlocal news ventures. As standalone business operations, hyperlocal news “just doesn’t make for a sustainable financial model,” Garfield said in a recent video interview with Borrell Associates.