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NinthDecimal Acquires MoLOGIQ, Will Launch NinthDecimal Labs
San Francisco-based marketing platform and location intelligence company NinthDecimal today announced it has acquired mobile audience platform MoLOGIQ, and will also form a group to develop new solutions in location-based marketing.
Why Zuckerberg Needs Local News Providers to ‘Bring the World Closer Together’
For all their limitations, local news providers are now better positioned than Facebook’s moderators or artificial intelligence to help the people of their communities come closer together. If news providers join this mission, the community will respond by giving them the trust it so often withholds.
Street Fight Daily: Alphabet-Uber Case Plays Out Publicly, Adobe Offers Voice-Assistant Analytics
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Alphabet Says Uber is Engaging in a Cover-Up… Adobe Offers Voice Analytics for Intelligent Assistants Including Siri, Alexa… Gulf Between Off-Site, On-Site Digital Engagement is Slowly Killing Your Business…
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Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Delivers, Facebook Check-ins
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
LivingSocial Launches Takeout and Delivery Service (Wall Street Journal)…
Facebook Is Redefining Checkin Numbers for Pages (Mashable)…
Groupon Scheduler a Foot in the Door for Other SMB Services (ScreenWerk)…
With an Inherently Local Ad Base, Publishers Can Take the Mobile Lead
Local businesses already recognize the need to follow the eyeballs from traditional media to mobile, but they are looking for partners to facilitate the move. Publishers are that partner. They already have the relationships with local advertisers. They already are a trusted guide, their publications a reliable channel, and they’ve already bought into the value of mobile…
Rick Blair Joins Street Fight as Adviser and Columnist
When you want to know how to make money in hyperlocal publishing, you can’t go wrong by turning to Rick Blair. The former CEO of Examiner.com led that business’s innovative, and occasionally controversial, push into a new revenue model for publishing. Under his leadership, the network grew to to 1.5 billion page views, more than 1 million articles and regularly ranked among the top 10 most trafficked news sites.
Street Fight Daily: Google Offers Goes for Loyalty, Groupon Hiring Engineers
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Google Closing the Loop With New ‘Offer Rewards’ Program (Marketing Land)…
Groupon Is Hiring an Army of Engineers in Silicon Valley (Business Insider)…
Behind the Slowdown in Local Advertising (Media Life)…
6 Lead-Generation Tools for Small Businesses
Hyperlocal platforms aimed at fulfilling consumer service requests are becoming increasingly attractive to these small business owners, since these platforms generally involve a minimal investment of time or money on the part of the local merchant. Rather than paying upfront for advertisements that may or may not generate actual leads, business owners can sit back and wait for leads to come to them…
Street Fight Daily: Twitter’s SMB Self-Serve, DudaMobile Funding
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Twitter Launches Self-Service Ads for Small Businesses (Twitter Advertising Blog)…
Check-In Needs To Work, But How Can We Fix It? (TechCrunch)…
Daily Deals: Do Consumers Still Care? (Ad Age)…
Swipely Launches Direct Marketing Product Tied to Payments
The company’s new back-end solution brings ecommerce tools to offline stores. The “Main Street Marketing Manager,” which has been running in a closed beta for the past year, enables local merchants to build loyalty and marketing programs on top of their existing credit and debit card processing systems…
Why Don Draper Would Hate Hyperlocal
Many brands are still stuck in the days of Don Draper, failing to see that the potential for a lasting bond is even greater with hyperlocal (and delivers better ROI). Campaigns on services like LevelUp, LivingSocial or Tackable have more resonance precisely because they are tied to where you are. They tap into your good feelings around, say, your favorite pizza place, a connection that doesn’t require the same kind of shaping by big media or advertising mavens.
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