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The People Have Spoken: BrightLocal Reveals Consumer MULO Review Ratings street fight

The People Have Spoken: BrightLocal Reveals Review Ratings

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When consumers search their small screens to decide where to shop, eat, buy groceries, or exercise, they often consult reviews. In fact, poor scores may send someone off to your competitors’ brands—never to return. We all know that UGC (user-generated content) and consumer reviews play a big role in decision-making today. The annual consumer review […]

Surveys 2.0: Chatmeter’s AI-Driven Solution for Enhanced Customer Insights

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Chatmeter has announced the release of Surveys 2.0, a new solution from its Pulse Ai: Signals platform. This AI-driven tool offers multi-location brands a 360° view of customer insights by continuously analyzing survey data, reviews, and social data in real-time. This looks to be the first time such comprehensive, real-time analysis has been available in […]

The Billboard Now Big Screens: OOH Trends from Kevin Bartanian Street Fight

The Billboard Now Big Screens: OOH Trends from Kevin Bartanian

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We know that many consumers today use their small screens (i.e., phones and tablets) to organize their lives, find the things and experiences they need, communicate with friends, family, and colleagues, and watch countless hours of strangers and animals doing bizarre and sometimes comical/inspirational things. Marketers from MULO (multi-location) brands use those screens to push […]

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Ad Tech and Privacy

Why Everyone is Talking About First-Party Data and What You Need to Know

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Many brands are successfully deploying interactive experiences across channels, driving immediate ROI as well as lifetime value. The improvement to lifetime value doesn’t just happen, though. There is another challenge that brands must address — which is now that they’ve captured the data, what are they going to do with it?

The Future of Targeting Relies on the Right Data

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Ad targeting is about to undergo a seismic shift. In the not so distant future, marketers won’t select who is targeted. Rather, machines–powered by ML/AI–will determine the ads consumers see.

6 Questions Brands Should Ask When Evaluating Performance CTV Providers

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With lots of opportunities to reach new audiences and so many options for targeting and optimization, some marketers are understandably intimidated and not sure where to start. To help brands who are new to the space, here are six questions to ask when considering dipping your toes into the performance CTV space.

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Uberall Releases Direct Integration with Apple’s Business Connect

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Days after Apple announced the launch of Business Connect, a feature that allows businesses of all sizes to customize the way their information appears across Apple apps, the customer experience platform Uberall has come out with its own integration solution.

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.