In Yelp’s Q2 earnings, it reached record net revenue and strong net profit at the high end of its outlook range. Growth was fueled primarily by its core advertising revenue stream, with particular strength in home services.
Location Intelligence leader Placer.AI announced this week that it raised $75 million. This gives the company a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, up from the $1 billion valuation assigned in its series C round in 2022.
App researchers have found experimental code for a “Payments” button in the X navigation bar. What does this mean for our ongoing speculation that X is building a super app?
Publicis Groupe has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire influencer marketing company Influential. Publicis will drop $500 million on the deal, which signals confidence in the influencer economy.
SOCi, the CoMarketing Cloud for multi-location businesses, announced a notable milestone in its evolution as a business: $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). This
Just in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Google has brought its signature geospatial animations to the city. We examine drivers & dynamics.
At SIGGRAPH 2024, Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang imagined together a day when every small business would have a virtual assistant in the form of embodied avatars that support customers. We shoot holes in the idea.
Localogy analysts participated in a live presentation and panel last week hosted by website platform Duda. We have the biggest takeaways and on-demand video for Localogy Insider readers.
Chatmeter announced today that it’s releasing version 2.0 of its Surveys product. One of the features nested within its Pulse AI: Signals platform, Surveys lets multilocation businesses gather customer insights.
Apple Intelligence will uplevel Siri, answering our question of whether Siri gets killed or gets a brain transplant. How exactly will Siri improve? We go down the list.
Starting in public beta, users can access Apple Maps for the first time via their web browser, including directions, curated city guides, and other app favorites like Look Around.
Adobe’s new features in Photoshop and Illustrator to help users generate textures and images on the fly. We examine the details and go deeper into Adobe’s gen AI strategy.
Yelp is often known as a company that works with small businesses in their local presence and promotion. But local businesses also include multi-location (MULO) brands. As part of its annual summer feature release, Yelp is specifically accommodating this segment of the local ecosystem.
This week saw “Black Friday in July.” That’s right, it was Prime Day… which is actually two days. The Amazon-invented holiday broke records this year and we have all the data and takeaways.
Microsoft Designer launches this week as a web and mobile app to fullfill a variety of Canva-like no-code design functions. And it’s built with modern AI-first design principles, rather than catching up to add AI to an existing suite.
Tiger Pistol announced today that it’s partnering AdBud. The collaboration creates a new feature in AdBud’s platform called Automatic SoMe ads, which lets users – mostly agencies and brands – manage and optimize Facebook and Instagram campaigns.
Microsoft formed a deal with Criteo to bring more direct retail media opportunities to 500,000 advertisers in its Microsoft Advertising business.
DOOH’s latest development is sky marketing. This involves autonomous drones that fly in intricate patterns and display specific colors to render deliberate imagery. Is this the ultimate form of local advertising?
With $6 million in seed funding, Enso aims to assist various SMB daily operations and marketing tasks through pre-programed and purpose-built AI agents.
PitchBook reports that software valuations in the first half of 2024 have returned to pre-slump (pre-Q1 2022) levels. But there’s a catch. We examine.
