Tag Archives: Location

What You Don’t Know About Location Targeting And Attribution Will Hurt You

Reasons why marketers should attend Local Search Advantage @SMX West. Greg Sterling on February 27, 2015  Roughly 15 years since I started writing about digital marketing, I’m still amazed that large numbers of marketers still don’t fully understand the importance of location and location-based targeting. Over the past 18 months, chiefly because of mobile, things … Continue reading What You Don’t Know About Location Targeting And Attribution Will Hurt You

Study: Accurate Location Can Boost Mobile Conversions By More Than 2X

Location more available but less accurate because of programmatic dilution. Greg Sterling on February 16, 2015 Mobile ad platform Thinknear’s latest location accuracy report contains a variety of findings about the impact of location accuracy on consumer behavior and ad performance. Overall, the report says that the availability of location for mobile display campaigns is … Continue reading Study: Accurate Location Can Boost Mobile Conversions By More Than 2X

Howard Lerman, CEO of Yext, Talks Location Data, Big Data, & Beacons

João-Pierre S. Ruth With more businesses trying to connect to customers through their mobile phones, via apps and the Web, company information must not only be up-to-date, it needs to be local. That is where Howard Lerman, CEO and co-founder of New York-based Yext, sees his company continuing to grow—even as the race to capture … Continue reading Howard Lerman, CEO of Yext, Talks Location Data, Big Data, & Beacons