Daily News: Hallmark Talks Local Search vs. Social, iOS App Store Revenues, Google’s Mobile Algorithm Change

Here is today’s roundup of news related to local marketing and advertising, local media, technology, local commerce, consumer behavior and more.

Local Search vs. Social: Hallmark Treats the Two Very Differently (May 13, 2016)
LSA Insider: “Among other topics, it explored how national brands interact with and manage local marketing campaigns on behalf of independent retailers and franchise affiliates.”

Report: Most iOS app store revenue goes to top 1 percent of publishers (May 13, 2016)
Marketing Land: “Top 1 percent also capture 70 percent of App Store downloads.”

NetNewsCheck To Present ‘Real World Sales Transformation: Driving Revenue In 2016’ (May 13, 2016)
LSA Insider: “NetNewsCheck will be presenting a webinar on May 24 focusing on how to get CEO-level commitment to a sales transformation process, streamlining prospecting through marketing automation and getting results through pipeline management.”

Why Geofeedia Is Moving More Directly Into The Location Ad Business (May 12, 2016)
GeoMarketing: “The geo-data monitor has long used its location listening tools to serve disparate industries such as law enforcement.”

Google’s mobile-friendly algorithm boost has rolled out (May 12, 2016)
Search Engine Land: “The new Google mobile-friendly algorithm is supposed to give an additional ranking boost for mobile-friendly websites in the mobile search results.”

Retail Marketers to Lead Digital Ad Spending Through 2020 (May 11, 2016)
Wall Street Journal: “Retailers to spend $15 billion on paid digital advertising this year, $23 billion by 2020, eMarketer estimates.”

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