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Street Fight Daily: Waymo’s Suit Against Uber Goes to Trial, Gen Z’s Tech Prowess Disrupts Branding

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Waymo’s Lawsuit Against Uber is Going to Trial, Judge Rules… New Study Reveals How the Tech-Centric Expectations of Brand Z ‘Are Reshaping Brand Experiences’… Vice Balances Brand Safety with Editorial Autonomy…

Why SharkNinja Keeps Searching for New Ways to Connect With Local Consumers

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Building a rapport with customers at the local level can be a challenge for product makers who do not have their own stores. It can be an even more elaborate task for a brand whose products have long lifecycles. That makes it all the more important to ensure digital marketing is cognizant of its customers’ needs, says transformation VP Ajay Kapoor.

Street Fight Daily: Google Adds Local Event Discovery to Search, Snap’s Earnings Disappoint

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Search Will Now Help You Find Nearby Events… Snap’s $2.2 Billion Loss Caps Bumpy First Months as Public Company… Microsoft Releases New Custom AI Services for Businesses…

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IAB Counsel: Push to Regulate Online Ads May Lose Traction

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Hyperlocal news publishers have a better chance to prosper with targeted display advertising that is self-regulated, according to Mike Zaneis, the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s General Counsel and Senior Vice President of public policy. Industry groups like the IAB fear government regulations may slow growth for the online industry…

4 Ways Hyperlocal Vendors Are Helping Merchants Run Efficient Campaigns

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In addition to battling it out over features and functionality, more and more platforms and services are upping their game in the way they work one-on-one with merchants. Here are a handful of the ways hyperlocal companies have begun providing support and information to help businesses run more successful deals…

Street Fight Daily: 01.17.12

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

Google Launching Goofy Game to Promote Location Products in Google+ (ReadWriteWeb)…

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Defends His Decisions on ’60 Minutes’ (AllThingsD)…

How Well Your Deal Sells is Inversely Proportional to Its Amount of Fine Print (Zuupy)…

The Call of the Mall: Where Mobile Advertising Might Really Rock

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Since you are going to be spending money, why not get deals that might help you save money? That’s the theory behind the upwelling of location-based advertising startups hoping to hit it big at the mall. The benefits of layering hyperlocal onto a mall experience are numerous…

Local Quotables: Hartley, Gardner, Thompson and more

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This week’s quotes focus on advertising, technology and new businesses. Sarah Hartley describes how the end of a site can be good while Scott Thompson, newly-appointed CEO of Yahoo talks about the beginning of a new Yahoo. Pat McDevitt discusses the community’s role in advertising, Jonathan Gardner talks about how advertising will change and more.

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Maponics, Geofencing

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Hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan heap affection on Soundtracking, debate the merits of a one-off event-based app (for the Chick-fil-a Bowl), and talk geofencing with Maponics CEO Darrin Clement.

Street Fight Daily: 01.13.12

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

Urban Airship To Shutter SimpleGeo Services In March, With Factual Picking Up The Slack (TechCrunch)…

Rue La La Operator Lays Off 65 Workers, Plans to Shutter SmartBargains (Boston Globe)…

Why Foursquare Won’t Share Location Data With Google (FastCompany)…

Foursquare Brings Tips Feature Explore to the Web

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What the web version executes most successfully is in making Foursquare’s extensive user-generated content consumable through a single keyword search. Over the past 9 months, Foursquare has created an ecosystem of users, brands, and developers to generate and structure location-based content without the massive costs associated with scaling hyperlocal information…

3 Ways to Reinvigorate Patch’s Business Model

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Although Patch.com is growing its reader base, the company still seems to be struggling with the traditional banner ad based business model. Here are a few new ways Patch can evolve its business and bring value to local merchants…

Case Study: A Michigan Yoga Studio’s Tips For Managing Deal Customers

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When Eric Paskel ran his first Groupon promotion in January 2011, he knew it was going to be big. What he hadn’t expected, however, was to get hit with 3,000 new clients by 11 a.m. on the day his deal premiered. In the year since then, the owner of Yoga Shelter has sold approximately 15,000 daily deal coupons. But no longer with Groupon…