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Amperity and the Power of First-Party Data Street Fight

Amperity and the Power of First-Party Data

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Amperity is a customer data platform that excels at helping brands unify and organize their first-party data using an average 30 different sources. Making sense of this data helps brand marketers understand when the same customer target shows up across disparate digital systems and lets them know the person is not three or four different […]

LOMA Platform Boosts Hyperlocal Marketing for Franchises Street Fight

LOMA Platform Boosts Hyperlocal Marketing for Franchises

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If LOMA knows anything, it’s how to support franchise businesses. Since launching last September with a $2 million pre-seed venture capital round, the data-driven platform is ready to take the next step in supporting local marketing efforts. (LOMA stands for “local marketing.”) In recent weeks, LOMA launched the first enterprise software platform for multi-location franchise […]

UNFI and Swiftly Bring State-of-the-Art Retail Marketing to the Grocery World Street Fight

UNFI and Swiftly Bring State-of-the-Art Retail Marketing to the Grocery World

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UNFI (United Natural Foods, Inc.) supplies 30K stores across North America, ranging from small three-store regional brands to huge brands like Whole Foods. The largest wholesale distributor to the U.S. and Canada specializes in groceries, frozen foods, produce, health and beauty products, deli items, and bakery items. But their scope isn’t limited to getting these […]

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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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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.

5 Retail Communications Platforms for Multi-Location Brands

5 Retail Communications Platforms for Multi-Location Brands

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If there is one thread that runs through nearly all the challenges retailers are facing in 2023, it’s communication. Using the right enterprise communication platforms, retail brands have an opportunity to reduce staffing woes, improve customer retention, and even minimize ongoing supply chain issues. 

Retailers Navigate Post-Holidays Spending Slump

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As retailers head further into the month of January—typically an overlooked month—they’re seeing shoppers returning and exchanging items at a rapid pace. They’re also struggling to clear out excess inventory before closing out the fiscal year and bracing for a tough few months ahead.

The 3 C’s at the Foundation of Successful Agencies

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Here are three C’s (and no, we’re not talking about third-party cookies!) to focus on to position your agency for long-term success.