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Street Fight Daily: Snap’s Growth Slows, Marketers Capitalize on AI
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Snapchat’s Growth Dips as Competitive Pressure Mounts… AI Is Leaping from Hype to Reality, and Marketers Are Reaping the Benefits… Uber Board Adopts All Recommendations from Eric Holder Report…
OwnLocal Acquires Wanderful Media, Building Out Local Data
OwnLocal, an Austin-based digital marketing platform that helps local media companies convert print, radio, and television ads into high-powered digital campaigns, has acquired Wanderful Media.
#SFSNYC: How Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get in on Ordering via Mobile
Lots of apps can connect consumers to restaurants to order meals, but New York-based Slice has focused on a particular food niche that founder and CEO Ilir Sela says is built on customer loyalty — pizza. Sela says his company’s product is offered as a way to extend the natural loyalty consumers have for their local pizzerias.
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JiWire: 34% of In-Store Consumers Compare Prices on Mobile Devices
“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
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
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!
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.
6 White-Label Deal Platforms for Publishers
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
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
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…
NPR’s Bob Garfield: Hyperlocal News Ventures Doomed
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.
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