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Nexxen Partners with Vevo to Expand Programmatic Advertising in CTV Street Fight

Nexxen Partners with Vevo to Expand Programmatic Advertising in CTV

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Nexxen, a leader in unified advertising technology with deep expertise in video and Connected TV (CTV), has announced a strategic partnership with Vevo, the world’s largest music video network. This collaboration marks a significant milestone for both companies, as Vevo joins forces with Nexxen’s supply-side platform (SSP) to enhance its programmatic advertising capabilities, particularly across […]

Back-to-School Shopping Patterns 2024

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Most holidays seem to have moved up in the calendar as opportunities for retailers and manufacturers to get a jump on back-to-school sales activities. In some warmer states, school starts in August. Parents sending their kids off to college need ample prep time to stock dorm rooms (and the closets and refrigerators within them). Amazon […]

SOCi, Dominating the CoMarketing Cloud Revolution Street Fight

SOCi, Dominating the CoMarketing Cloud Revolution

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SOCi, Inc., the CoMarketing Cloud tailored for multi-location enterprises, has reached a significant milestone: $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). This achievement places SOCi among the exclusive ranks of global centaur companies, a status that is seven times rarer than the coveted unicorn status. Unlike unicorns, which are often valued based on speculative projections, […]

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Location-Based Marketing Association: Snap Map Launches Restaurant Recommendations

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Snap Map launching restaurant recommendations, Twitter opening access to its “location spotlight” module, Yext partnering with What3Words, and Harris Teeter stores piloting SocialShelf.

Can Apple’s Room Plan Bring Visual Commerce to Local Businesses?

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The AR world’s disappointment about smart glasses in the wake of WWDC has overshadowed the fact that there were notable AR developments at the event. Besides subtle signals throughout, Apple announced a new mobile room-scanning tool known as RoomPlan that could democratize AR creation.

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.

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How Marketers Can Use AI Right Now

How Marketers Can Use AI Right Now

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AI is generating more than ample marketing buzz, but it can be hard for marketers to separate real opportunities from the hype. Street Fight checked in with AI expert Ted Loofbourrow, CEO of ViralGains, to learn about how marketers can use AI right now.

What Amazon's Move into Clean Room Services Means for the Space

What Amazon’s Move into Clean Room Services Means for the Space

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Amazon recently announced it would sell clean rooms as a service, giving the privacy-safe data collaboration space a major new competitor. Street Fight checked in with Bob Walczak, CEO of MadTech Advisors, to get his take on what Amazon’s move means for the clean room space and the marketers and publishers who depend on it. 

4 Ways to Use ChatGPT for Local Marketing

4 Ways to Use ChatGPT for Local Marketing

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Digital agencies are embracing OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and so are local marketers. With its automation capabilities and natural language processing skills, ChatGPT has the potential to level the playing field for small and mid-size businesses as well as regional chains without agency support. 

6 Highly Effective Ways to Generate Trust in Your Ecommerce Site

6 Highly Effective Ways to Generate Trust in Your Ecommerce Site

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Here are six highly effective ways to use your ecommerce website to generate trust, even with first-time visitors. 

Yelp Provides Peek into Local Commerce Misinformation and Other Bad Practices

Yelp Provides Peek into Local Commerce Misinformation and Other Bad Practices

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Everyone tuned into local commerce knows that fraudulent local reviews are a problem. But how big is the problem, and what can marketers and platforms do to diminish it?

5 Martech Trends That Will Define 2023

5 Martech Trends That Will Define 2023

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As the US follows in the EU’s footsteps, privacy regulations will only play a larger role in marketing in 2023. While the GDPR is still the strongest privacy regulation to date, we will see an increasing number of regulations in the U.S. The best marketers are agile and should be using the coming year to make preparations for the loss of third-party cookies. One thing is clear: decisions must be strategic, privacy-centric, and backed by data.

Study: Consumers Skittish on Spending in 2023

Study: Consumers Skittish on Spending in 2023

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Strong labor markets and a growth in wages have helped consumers maintain spending on discretionary items until now, but a new study released by the National Retail Federation and Affinity Solutions paints a less optimistic picture of the year ahead.

Catalina Collaborates on In-Store Promotions with Kroger’s 84.51° Labs

Catalina Collaborates on In-Store Promotions with Kroger’s 84.51° Labs

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The shopper intelligence firm Catalina and Kroger’s retail data and analytics unit, 84.51°, are collaborating on a solution that will deliver Kroger’s digital promotional offers to customers who shop exclusively in-store.

Agencies Are Embracing ChatGPT. Is That a Mistake?

Agencies Are Embracing ChatGPT. Is That a Mistake?

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In SEO expert Andrew Shotland’s view, most agencies aren’t saving as much time using AI to develop creative content as they might think. Tools like ChatGPT are fast, but they aren’t particularly accurate. That’s a major problem, especially for agencies trying to create hundreds or thousands of local pages for national brand clients.

How Brands Can Use Apple Business Connect to Reach Local Customers

How Brands Can Use Apple Business Connect to Reach Local Customers

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With access to Apple Maps Insights, multi-location brands should have a much better sense of which locations are performing well, which ones need attention, and how performance is trending over time.