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GroupM, Incremental Partner on Neutral Retail Media Network Solutions

GroupM, Incremental Partner on Neutral RMN Solutions

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Fragmentation and poor measurement create a ton of inefficiencies for clients and agencies trying to plan and optimize retail-media investments. To address this issue, GroupM has expanded its retail (aka commerce) media offering and formed a partnership with Incremental, which provides neutral retail media solutions. The announcement was made on June 17 at the Cannes […]

Leap-ing Into a New Retail Model: An Interview With Amish Tolia Street Fight

Leap-ing Into a New Retail Model: An Interview With Amish Tolia

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We’ve all seen founders with great ideas and/or products take the big step to brick-and-mortar stores and then crash and burn due to various factors. Amish Tolia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Leap, a company that has disrupted the traditional commercial broker/landlord/tenant model for retail brands. Tolia founded the company about six years ago […]

How to Pick the "Right" Retail Media: A Perspective from Skai Street Fight

How to Pick the “Right” Retail Media: A Perspective from Skai

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Nich Weinheimer is the EVP of Strategy at Skai, an omnichannel advertising platform focused on walled garden media. These networks (walled garden media) are their own ecosystem and keep their customer data close. As reported recently, major MULO (multi-location) retailers are taking a page from the Google and Amazon playbook and developing their own advertising ecosystems. […]

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3 Recession Priorities for Multi-Location Marketers

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What brands, and multi-location brands in particular, cannot ignore is showing up for their customers. Even during a recession, marketers will spend to ensure that the customers searching for them find them, that they have a positive experience, and that they can easily find whatever they need to convert. This is what marketers will need to zero in on amid a possible market contraction.

GrabMaps Launches Local Mapping Tech

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers whether Apple & Google will get rid of IP address tracking, GrabMaps launching and licensing their own local mapping technology, Walmart partnering with senior care app Avanlee Care for grocery delivery, and NTT Data launching Mobicomma in Okinawa, Japan.

The Value of Business Agility

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Business agility is not just a talking point; it’s a worldview that informs all of your organization’s decisions and allows the business to continue evolving amid unpredictability.

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Amazon Gets into E-Commerce as a Service

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Amazon may be getting into a new service business: e-commerce as a service. The company announced that Buy with Prime, already available to third-party merchants on Amazon, will be available to non-Amazon merchants in the U.S. starting January 31.

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Will 2023 Mark a Tipping Point in Data Privacy Regulation?

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Data protection is becoming a key discussion point among advertisers in the U.S. as central provisions in the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) take effect and publishers begin rolling out transparency notices to users. Will ​​2023 go down in history as a turning point in data privacy?

User Identification Is a Hot Topic at Identity 2023 

User Identification Is a Hot Topic at Identity 2023 

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Identity 2023, an annual event from the digital advertising identity provider ID5, is back this year, and there’s one topic on everyone’s mind — user identification. 

Level Up Your Customer Experience with Unified Touch Points

Level Up Your Customer Experience with Unified Touch Points

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When it’s deployed strategically, technology can augment CX in both virtual and in-person settings. The key is for retailers to align their business models around excellent customer service to avoid introducing friction into the customer journey.

Shoppable Ads Poised to Hit CTV

Shoppable Ads Poised to Hit CTV

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Shoppable ads are coming to a TV screen near you. Half of online adults recall seeing a shoppable ad on TV, with 70% of those consumers having purchased a featured product either at that time or shortly thereafter, according to consumer research firm Aluma.

SafeGuard Privacy Partners with Third Party to Certify Customers’ Privacy Bona Fides

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Now that adtech companies, data providers, brands, and publishers view a data privacy strategy as indispensable, every company in the digital media space seems to have slapped “privacy-safe” onto its website. But how can anyone tell who has really taken the necessary steps to protect consumer privacy?

Shoppable Ads Poised to Hit CTV

How Balanced Is Your 2023 Marketing Portfolio?

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As you finalize your 2023 strategy, keep in mind that you’ll need to balance your media investments like a financial portfolio — a strong position in performance marketing requires an offset in brand and demand building and vice versa.

Skai Study Reveals Ad Spend Trends Street Fight

Navigating Economic Uncertainty: Follow the Ad Spend Trends and Stay Flexible

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2022 continued the (sometimes unpleasant) pattern of being an unprecedented year in many ways for the advertising industry. As a result, here are a few considerations that marketers, publishers, and agencies should pay close attention to in 2023.

Apple Launches Business Connect to Give Businesses More Control of Local Presence

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Apple this week announced the launch of Business Connect, a new feature that allows businesses of all sizes to control how they appear to Apple Maps users. The move comes as consumers increasingly use maps apps to discover local businesses, whether by browsing an area or searching for a specific kind of business near them.

How Retailers Can Solve Post-Holiday Inventory Challenges

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Retailers are facing what is for many an unprecedented glut of inventory. With supply chain challenges and inflation afoot, plus astronomical rates of return, retailers need to figure out how to move what’s in stock.