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Street Fight Daily: Google Adds Attribution Tools for Marketers, Gen Z Loves Brands and Influencers

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Wants to Measure the Entire Path to Purchase… Gen Z Enjoys Branded Content More Than Millenials… Marketers Press Claims Against Facebook Over Inflated Metrics…

Street Culture: Six Vertical Pivoting its Culture with its Company

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Starting your own tech company often comes with a painful side effect, says Joshua Enders, managing partner of client success at digital commerce company Six Vertical: “It’s an absolute grind. It’s like getting punched in the stomach multiple times a day,” Enders says. “I’m speaking from experience.”

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Boosts Brick-and-Mortar, Native Google Assistant Integration Coming to Autos

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Rolls Out a New “Order Food” Option in its Main Navigation… Google Will Integrate Assistant Directly into Next-Gen Cars… Pittsburgh Welcomed Uber’s Driverless Car Experiment. Not Anymore…

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Street Fight Daily: 02.07.12

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

Agrawal: Yelp Advertising Is a Rip-off for Small Advertisers (VentureBeat)…

Yelp Ads Are Not A Rip-Off, You Pay To Seal The Deal (TechCrunch)…

Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps (Mashable)…

Local Stores Become Showrooms for Online Buying

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“Showrooming” refers to the act of using local stores as showrooms for more price-competitive online purchases. Retailers can get on the right side of this trend by beating Amazon at its own data-centric game. That means launching apps — or working with those that aggregate retail feeds, such as Milo — through which personal recommendations and incentives are offered to in-store buyers…

Hyperlocals Need to Protect Their Social Media Branding

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Customer lists, brand names, and social media accounts are valuable assets for hyperlocal news publishers, and they should be protected like money. Publishers should put agreements in place to stipulate that any online accounts provided in connection with site business remain with the publisher upon termination of any relationship…

Street Fight Daily: 02.06.12

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

Facebook’s IPO: The Good, the Bad and the (Local?) Future (BIA/Kelsey)

Why Context Is King in the Future of Digital Marketing (Mashable)

Gilt Groupe Snags New Chief Marketing Officer from JustFabulous (AllThingsD)

Could Pinterest Follow Yelp Down the Local Path?

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I am fairly certain that a class of local Pinters will begin to emerge who have followers and who specialize either in a city or a part of a city and, most likely, down to a specific specialty. And this will happen because Pinterest is an extension of blogging and tweeting, really. Lots of pins actually drive through to a blog post, in fact, so it’s already seen as a traffic augmentation vehicle. I see Pinterest getting integrated into social media dashboard tools that will make it easy for local merchants running Facebook pages to add a Pinterest stream to their arsenal.

Local Quotables: Armstrong, Radcliffe, Andrzejewski and more

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Tim Armstrong was back out there defending Patch again this week. Elsewhere, researchers noted the rapidly growing influence of Pinterest, which is gaining on Twitter as a traffic driver. Over at Foodspotting, Alexa Andrzejewski corrects any misconceptions there might be that her company is just “Instagram” for food. Damian Radcliffe says LBS products “haven’t quite lived up to the hype.”

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing: Evi, LocalBeat, Shopcastr

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Hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at the latest SIRI competitor, Evi, the location tool LocalBeat in India, Groupon’s kiosk play, a great example of relevant and smart location-based mobile marketing by the First TransPennine Express, and Matt O’Leary from Shopcastr.

Street Fight to Participate at First Euro Deals Event

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There are over 1500 daily dealers operating in Europe, and Stavros Prodromou, the conference’s organizer, says that the event is meant to spur collaborations and partnerships between the various companies working in the space…

Street Fight Daily: 02.03.12

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

Mobile Ad Network Mojiva Reaches 1 Billion Devices (TechCrunch)…

Gilt City Gets New Look — Providers Members with Improved Shopping Experience (Daily Deal Media)…

Trover Updates With Curation Tools and Revamped Newsfeed

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The location-based photo sharing service that launched in April has added some substantial new features to its mobile application, with lists, tagging, and a revamped newsfeed, which brings users’ curatorial activity (i.e. ‘thanks,’ comments, and list-adds) into the thread…