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Yelp Empowers Multi-location Brands with New Features and Enhanced Tools Street Fight

Yelp Empowers Multi-location Brands with New Features and Enhanced Tools

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Yelp announced today its Summer Ad Product Release, designed to deliver greater value to multi-location service businesses and national brands through a series of  new features and updates. This latest rollout includes tools for multi-location service businesses to generate and manage high-intent leads, such as the newly introduced Request a Quote for Brands with a […]

June Retail Sales See Moderate Growth Amid Solid Economy Street Fight

June Retail Sales See Moderate Growth Amid Solid Economy

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Retail sales in June demonstrated moderate growth, reflecting the stability of the current economy and near-zero inflation for retail goods, according to the latest CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor, powered by Affinity Solutions. This report, by the National Retail Federation (NRF), provides a detailed overview of retail sales trends and consumer spending behaviors. Economic Overview Despite facing […]

"Coupon Clippers" are Now "Coupon Clickers and Viewers" Street Fight

“Coupon Clippers” are Now “Coupon Clickers and Viewers”

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The concept of discount coupons for grocery items originated in the 1800’s. After all, who doesn’t want a deal? But we’ve come a long way from paper envelopes filled with individual pieces of paper. Although local “circulars” still fill our mailboxes, automation and precise consumer targeting have taken the concept to a whole new level. […]

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Location-Based Marketing Association: Near Goes Public

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Near going public via a merger with Kludeln, FinGo using Hitachi’s vein mapping for user identification, Reveal Mobile launching Mira console for OOH measurement, and Domino’s deploying PopID tech for facial recognition ordering to promote the new season of Stranger Things.

Does ‘Multisearch Near Me’ Signal a Visual Search Future?

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Google’s latest local search play was on display at its recent I/O conference: Multisearch Near Me. If multisearch and local search had a baby, that’s essentially what was announced. It lets users search using images or screenshots along with the text “near me” to see local results.

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3 Ways to Move Past SKAdNetwork

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Here is a guide for brand advertisers to navigate the SKAdNetwork situation and reclaim attribution in the wake of App Tracking Transparency.

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Digital Advertising Trends to Expect in 2023

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From shifts in consumer behavior, to emerging platforms and technologies, to the (eventual) deprecation of third-party cookies, pressure on campaign performance, and more, the digital media industry must prepare and proactively tackle what’s to come. Here’s what we can expect in 2023.

AR, VR, and AI Show the Way for Marketing in 2023

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The opportunities for businesses to meaningfully integrate products, services, and business information into AI-enabled experiences are limited only by their own creativity and access to the AI technology that can make their vision a reality.

Time is Running Out to Build Trust with Consumers and Save the Free, Ad-Supported Internet

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Consumers think it is marketers’ responsibility to keep their data private and secure—and they’re willing to reward them if they get those benefits.

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Must-have Digital Tools for Your Marketing Agency Strategy

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Developing your marketing agency strategy is essential to the growth of your firm. As such, you’ll want to create and initiate your growth strategy at the launch of your agency, then revise it on an annual basis.

New Hires at SafeGuard Privacy, RFPIO, Claravine, and tvScientific

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The Street Fight new hires roundup features movers and shakers in adtech, martech, e-commerce, localized marketing, location intelligence, and more. This week’s roundup features new hires at SafeGuard, RFPIO, Claravine, and tvScientific.

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Clean Room Consortium Aims to Clarify How Advertisers Can Use the Technology

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Adam Gelles, CEO of The B2B Marketing Company, and Richard Sobel, CEO of Mercato Solutions, founded the Clean Room Consortium as a sort of trade organization to help all stakeholders understand and best capitalize on the technology. We touched base on how advertisers and publishers are already using clean rooms and what the media community needs to know.

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What’s Driving CX? 3 Predictions for 2023

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This is a pivotal moment for the state of customer experience (CX) as customers demand more connected, frictionless, and innovative experiences. However, despite the significance of CX, according to Forrester’s US Customer Experience Index, CX quality declined for 19% of brands in 2022. 

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Forecasting the Future: 4 Retail Marketing Trends Coming in 2023

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Retail media, the rise of TikTok, merchandising advances to deal with supply chain constraints, and shortened paths to conversion — these are just four of the trends in 2022 that Street Fight contributors see picking up steam in 2023.

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Amazon Takes a Page from the TikTok Playbook

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Social commerce provides the promise of an additional revenue stream for social platforms that have largely relied on advertising for monetization. The giants are copying each other to get there, and Amazon has taken a page from the TikTok playbook to spur its latest advance.

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5 In-Store Digital Retail Media Platforms

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Is it retail media? Contextual advertising? Digital out-of-home? The latest crop of in-store digital retail media platforms are all of the above — and more.