Street Fight Daily: Clothing Brands Use AI to Boost Mobile Sales, BuzzFeed Innovates on Ads

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… How Fashion and Beauty Brands Use AI to Drive Mobile Purchases (Digiday) Working with personalization platform Qubit, DvF set up an algorithm-based discovery feed on its mobile site that’s curated using artificial intelligence and tailored to each user. The feed reflects an assortment that changes, […]

Street Fight Daily: Brands Benefit from Voice Revolution, Placed Unveils New Attribution Tool

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… As Voice Has Its Moment, Tech Giants Give Brands a Way Into the Conversation (AdWeek) Voice is having its moment. People are talking, devices are listening and brands are attempting to insert themselves into the conversation, using Amazon Alexa voice skills and Google […]

Street Fight Daily: Walmart Touts Free Shipping Ahead of Holidays, Amazon Dominates Server-to-Server

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Walmart to Emphasize Free Shipping, Dig at Amazon, In Pre-Holidays Campaigns… Amazon Is Dominating Server-to-Server Bidding… London Mayor Praises Uber CEO’s ‘Humility’ Regarding London Ban…

Why Brand Success Is About Unique Experiences and Community (And a Massive Audience)

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“Look at Amazon versus Walmart,” says GGV Capital’s Hans Tung.. “Amazon innovated much faster than Walmart. The way they approach things to make things happen fast, iterate, make changes, do a quick test, change again, test again, change again – that kind of speed is what we look for.”

Street Fight Daily: Amazon Tests New Delivery Service, Foursquare Revamps Developer Site

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon Tests Its Own Delivery Service to Rival UPS and FedEx… Foursquare Revamps Its Developer Site as API Usage Soars… Will Messenger Lose Out to Snapchat and Instagram Through 2021?…

Street Fight Daily: Snap Seeks Startups as Advertisers, How AI Could Improve Attribution

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Snapchat Incentivizes Startups, Especially Mobile-First Companies, to Advertise On It… How AI Could Change Attribution Tools… How Ikea Deploys AR to Improve Its Customer Experience…

Street Fight Daily: Uber Partners with Westfield Malls, Amazon Targets CPG Brands

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Partners with Westfield to Offer Mall Lounge and Pickup/Drop-off Points… Amazon Benefits as CPG Advertisers Trim Dollars… Walmart Acquires New York Delivery Startup Parcel…

Street Fight Daily: Google Modifies Practices to Help Publishers, Brands Pursue Experiential Marketing

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Unveils Tools to Increase Subscriptions for Publishers… Agencies See Experiential Marketing as the Next Big Thing, and Brands Want In… eMarketer Lowers Snapchat’s Ad Revenue Forecast for 2017…

Street Fight Daily: Alexa Everywhere Becomes Reality, Salesforce Launches Data Marketplace

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon Wants You to Wake Up with Alexa, and That’s Just the Start… Salesforce Launches Data Studio, a Marketplace for Data… Over Half of Paid Programmatic Impressions Probably Aren’t Viewed by an Actual Person…

Street Fight Daily: Walmart Tests Grocery Delivery, YouTube Rolls Out Marketing Tool

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Walmart Partners with Deliv to Test Grocery Delivery Direct to Fridge… YouTube Uses Data to Create Thousands of Ads from Assets in One Video Campaign… Why Brands Continue to Invest in Digital Advertising Despite Industry Roadblocks…

Street Fight Daily: UberEats Generates Tremendous Growth, How AI Challenges Brands

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… One Surprise Standout for Uber: Food Delivery… AI-Fueled Purchases Will Pose Challenges for Brands, Says Huge CEO… How Instagram Generates Commercial Value Out of Creative…

Street Fight Daily: Uber Loses London License, Facebook Upgrades Mobile Ads

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Loses Its License to Operate in London… Facebook Will Introduce Canvas Templates for Its Collection Ads, Aiming to Boost Brands… Google and Its Partners Will Issue Refunds to Advertisers over Fake Traffic…

Street Fight Daily: Duopoly’s Strength Exceeds Expectations, Pubs Struggle with Apple News

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google and Facebook Tighten Grip on US Digital Ad Market… Publishers Continue to Encounter Problems with Apple New… Alphabet’s Waymo Wants Uber to Pay $2.6 Billion for Single Stolen Trade Secret…

Street Fight Daily: Pinterest Empowers Brands, Uber Sues an Agency

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Brands Can Now Tap Pinterest’s Pin Collective Via a Self-Serve Customer Platform (AdWeek) Pinterest formed Pin Collective last October as a way to give brands access to the social network’s best content creators—publishers, production shops and individuals—to work directly with them on their campaigns. How […]

Street Fight Daily: Inside Uber/Lyft Funding War, Small Brands Hit Roadblock on Instagram

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Funding Talks at Uber and Lyft Complicate Ride-Hailing Allegiance… Small Brands Are Finding It Harder to Get Verified on Instagram… Never Mind GDPR, Here Comes Apple’s Intelligent Tracking…

Street Fight Daily: Alphabet Mulls Big Investment in Lyft, Pubs Not Making Money on Facebook

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amid Waymo-Uber Drama, Alphabet Considers Lyft Investment of About $1 Billion… Study Finds Publishers Are Not Making Much Money on Facebook… Why Amazon Is the New Google for Buying…

Street Fight Daily: Marketers See Opportunity in Amazon, Facebook Boosts Brand Safety

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… As Amazon Opens Up Its Ad Business, Marketers See an Opportunity to Shake Up Search… Facebook Updates Ad, Content Guidelines to Woo Advertisers and Publishers… Why Bonobos Thought Selling to Walmart Was Better Than Going Public…

Where Will VR Fit Into Local Advertising?

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How will advertising play out in (admittedly nascent) VR, especially in local? We’ll likely see the same early and ongoing misfires, such as banner ads. Or, as in video experiences, we’ll likely see a fair share of legacy formats — like pre-roll ads — ham-handedly shoehorned into VR.

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Guides Retailers on Mobile, US Ad Firms Prepare for Data Regulation

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… A New Facebook Feature Will Help Print Catalogs Translate to Mobile… GDPR Is Coming, and Many U.S. Ad Tech Firms Are Not Ready… Yelp Claims Google Broke Promise Made to Regulators…

Street Fight Daily: Google’s E-Commerce Influence Declines, Uber Under FBI Investigation

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Google’s E-Commerce Influence In Steady Decline (MediaPost)… Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Lyft (WSJ)… Postmates Expands Unlimited, a Prime-Style Subscription Service, to 250k Merchants (TechCrunch)…