6 Contextual Advertising Solutions for Brands
Unlike most types of behavioral targeting, contextual targeting doesn’t rely on third-party cookies. That makes it an especially popular option in 2022, as more U.S. states pass stringent consumer data privacy regulations. Here are six contextual advertising solutions that brands are using right now.
Street Fight Daily: Attribution Companies Thrive as AdTech Wavers, Lyft Partners with Taco Bell
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Ad Measurement Companies Are Thriving Even As AdTech As a Whole Falters… Lyft Partners with Taco Bell, Demonstrating How Ride-Hailing and Local Can Play Off Each Other… Improved Social Media Metrics Mean Influencer Marketing Gains Value…
Street Fight Daily: How SMBs Can Win at Local Search, Uber’s New Feature Is a Lot Like Foursquare
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… How Brick-and-Mortar Merchants Can Win in Local Search (Street Fight)… Uber Will Give You Things To Do While You’re On Your Trip (Mashable)… How Oracle Is Helping Retailers Sell More Stuff (Recode)…
Street Fight Daily: Twitter Will Show Ads to ‘Casual Viewers,’ Location Startup Factual Raises $35M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Twitter Aims to Show Advertising to Much Wider Audience (New York Times)… Startup Factual Knows Your Commute, and Much More (Wall Street Journal)… Billy Penn and Knight Foundation Want to Build ‘Yelp for Mobile News’ (Poynter)…
Street Fight Daily: Pinterest Opens Advertising, Goldman Eyes Groupon’s Korean Site
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology……Pinterest Will Open Promoted Pins To All Advertisers Following Success Of Beta Program (TechCrunch)… Goldman Wants In On Groupon’s Ticketmonster Deal (Crain’s Chicago Business)… Goldman Wants In On Groupon’s Ticketmonster Deal (Crain’s Chicago Business)… In Advertising, It’s About Who Gets Credit for the Sale (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: Oracle Buys Datalogix, Secret Adds Location-based Sharing
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…
Oracle Buys Datalogix, Beefs Up Digital Marketing Cloud (ZDNet)
Oracle on Monday said it acquired Datalogix, which provides digital marketing data as a service. The deal complements Oracle’s acquisition of BlueKai and rounds out its digital marketing suite. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but for Oracle Datalogix is a stocking stuffer that gives it yet another pillar to offer data as a service and another cloud product to sell… Secret’s Relaunch Adds Location-based Sharing (VentureBeat)
The broadcasting of public posts is now split between those from friends and those that are location-based, similarly to Yik Yak, another anonymous mobile app focused on college campuses and local communities… In China, a Rapid Jump to Mobile Advertising (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: McDonald’s Orders Ahead, Oracle Puts Micros On Menu
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… McDonald’s Is Secretly Testing Its Own Order-Ahead And Payments App(BusinessInsider)… Oracle Puts Micros on Menu as Restaurants Eat Up Software (Bloomberg)… Google Is Getting Into Domains. Should GoDaddy Worry? (Mashable)…
Street Fight Daily: Oracle Poised To Buy Micros, Ad Spending Jumps In Q1
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Oracle Poised to Seal $5 Billion Deal for Micros Systems (Wall Street Journal)… Ad Spending Jumps in First Quarter, Fueled by Olympics and Early Political Ads (AdAge)… Uber Plays Hardball With Early Shareholders (Fortune)…
Street Fight Daily: Oracle Eyes Micros, Yelp Adds Messaging
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Oracle Said to Near Deal to Buy Micros Systems (Bloomberg)… Yelp Gives Customers The Ability To Send Messages To Businesses (MarketingLand)… Microsoft Shuttering Bing Ads Express (SearchEngineLand)…
Openings & New Hires at Square, Facebook, LocalVox and More
Every two weeks, Search Influence’s Kelly Benish — who knows practically everyone in hyperlocal — covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. Moves this edition include a new product engineer at Square, an exiting publisher at DNAinfo, plus openings at Oracle, LinkedIn, WorldNow and more…
How the Ad Industry Encourages Poor Data Quality
Digital advertising is an incredibly sophisticated industry, yet when it comes to selling in the data store, vendors lack incentive and opportunity to focus on quality. Instead, they’re restricted to sales tactics—none of which are good for buyers, brands, or the industry.