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UGC: A Conversation With Roee Zelcer, CEO of Humanz US Street Fight

UGC: A Conversation With Roee Zelcer, CEO of Humanz US

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MULO (multi-location) brands and agencies have long used word-of-mouth marketing to build traffic and sales. But UGC (user-generated content) as marketing is clearly having a moment. Brands’ fans are taking to TikTok, IG, digital billboards, and streaming TV ads to promote products and places. Agencies are making bold moves to incorporate UGC in their media […]

A Chat With 5WPR VP Steph Hadas About the New PR Street Fight

Sneak Preview: A Chat With Steph Hadas About the New PR

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Steph Hadas is a Vice President at 5WPR, one of the largest independently owned public relations firms in the U.S., and will be one of our featured speakers at Street Fight LIVE on November 7th at Meta’s Chicago headquarters. The firm was founded in 2003 and has an incredible roster of clients — from major […]

Innovation Labs: LG Ad Solutions Unveils New Division for CTV Breakthroughs Street Fight

Innovation Labs: LG Ad Solutions Unveils New Division for CTV Breakthroughs

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LG Ad Solutions has announced the launch of Innovation Labs, a new division focused on advancing technologies in Connected TV (CTV) advertising and content personalization. Led by Chief Technology Officer Dave Rudnick, Innovation Labs will develop breakthrough innovations that deliver hyper-customized viewing experiences, connecting advertisers, content publishers, and audiences. A New Frontier in CTV Advertising […]

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How Location Intelligence Can Help Solve Supply Chain Issues

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Many brands might feel their hands are tied when it comes to these macroeconomic factors. But there is a way to mitigate supply chain disruption, and it starts with data—location intelligence, or geospatial data, to be specific. Here’s how.

3 Ways In-Store Ads Boost Retail Media Results

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Within retail media strategies, many marketers are turning to audio in-store ads to drive engagement. Here’s how AOOH can foster immersive experiences, help marketers target key shoppers, and shift in accordance with demand.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Simon Property Group Launches Search Platform

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Readyland’s Alexa-enabled books letting kids talk to characters, Peru’s Oechsle dressing mannequins in theaters with their clothes, Simon Property Group launching a search platform for shoppers, Geobroadcast responding to broadcast association complaints, and updated stats on the performance of the SocialShelf platform.

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Can AR Elevate Multi-Location Marketing?

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Augmented reality continues to be an early-adopter technology in terms of brand marketing. It has the unique ability to demonstrate products in their full 3D glory, which has proven effective in categories from furniture to footwear and cosmetics to cars. Many of these categories align with multi-location brands.

Contextual and Native Come Together to Help Advertisers Win the Open Web

Contextual and Native Come Together to Help Advertisers Win the Open Web

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Both contextual and native take a natural and intuitive approach, rather than a disruptive and distracting one. If a seamless experience is the goal, context may even be a more appropriate mode for targeting native campaigns than third-party cookie targeting ever was.

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AI-Powered Digital Advertising is Exciting, But Is It New?

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While the integration of generative AI into virtually every modern marketing and advertising platform is exciting, it’s not exactly surprising. Despite the hype surrounding AI and its influence on the digital advertising industry at large, AI has been used in adtech for years. 

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CEO Adam Golomb on How Restaurant Chain Primanti Bros Is Evolving

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Primanti Bros. has 41 locations across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland, with three more to open by year’s end. CEO Adam Golomb and his team are deep in planning for summer events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Primanti Bros. 

Reveal Mobile Launches Solution to Offer Authoritative In-Flight Campaign Insights

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Reveal Mobile is launching an OOH measurement solution for mid-market brands today, designed to let marketers know how their OOH campaigns are performing while their campaigns are still running — a major improvement with the potential to radically impact the performance of outdoor campaigns. 

ChatGPT Will Shake Up Marketing. That’s Good

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Now that ChatGPT has entered the conversation, so to speak, and AI chatbot tools are about to shake up content marketing. But don’t panic — that’s a good thing.

Arity’s Driver Data Reaches 200 Million Connections

Arity’s Driver Data Reaches 200 Million Connections

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Arity, a mobile data and analytics company, has actually increased its first-party data set from one million seven years ago to 200 million connections as of this year. Mobility data from vehicles can show movement patterns and behaviors in multiple and varied locations and result in more relevant ad targeting.

Yext Launches No-Code Page Builder to Power Localized Marketing

Yext Launches No-Code Page Builder to Power Localized Marketing

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Yext this week made another power move by launching a no-code page builder. No-code websites may sound most relevant to SMBs, but they’ll also have huge implications for multi-location brands looking to stand up localized marketing websites across hundreds or thousands of locations without large marketing teams.

Retailers Move to Automate 70% of Rote Store Tasks by 2025

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Generative AI is the talk of the retail town as marketers look to use it to connect with customers, but many retailers are gearing up to use AI for another purpose: automating routine in-store tasks.

FKA CGO: ‘Any Agency That Says These Are Easy Times Is Simply Lying’

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Is the agency model inherently broken, or is the executive turnover taking place at large global firms pushing the digital media landscape in a more positive direction? If you ask Linsey Loy, the newly-appointed chief growth officer at Formerly Known As, or FKA, it’s most definitely the former.