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What's Yelp's Position on its Antitrust Suit Against Google?

Google Takes the Next Step in Multimodal Search

Google this week made its multi-modal query flow more natural. Users can long-press the shutter button while speaking, which means Google processes an integrated – rather than sequential – mix of visuals and voice.

Bluehost Balances Automation & Control Localogy

Bluehost Balances Automation & Control

With the goal of saving SMBs time and headaches, Bluehost’s new AI Website Creator lets them create and customize a website by answering a series of questions.

What Do Consumers Like (and Not Like) About SMB Loyalty Programs?

When looking at the SMB marketing mix, there are several flavors and formats – some longstanding (local search) and some newer (TikTok). In the former camp is loyalty and rewards programs. This can be everything from punch cards for achievement rewards to apps that help you store and redeem points.

Amazon Comes Closer to Ubiquitous Drone Delivery Localogy

Amazon Steps Closer to Last-Mile Nirvana

The FAA has approved Amazon’s request for its Prime Air service to fulfill drone deliveries beyond line-of-sight proximity. What does this mean for local commerce?

Canva Formalizes its Enterprise Play Localogy

Canva Formalizes its Enterprise Play

Graphic design is one of those SMB functions that’s been democratized. This evolutionary progression has involved a gradual march of digital tools like Adobe Illustrator,

Funding in 2024: The Good, Bad & Ugly Localogy

Raising Money in 2024: The Good, Bad & Ugly

It’s no secret that the startup funding environment has inverted during the past 24 months. To wrap some numbers around this, Circumference Group’s Luca Sechi gives Localogy a data dump to characterize the current environment.

What's TikTok's Economic Impact on SMBs?

Social Advertising Enters the Automation Age

Following closely behind Meta’s recent moves to automate SMB ad campaign creation, TikTok announced this week that it will let advertisers automate campaign components – from images to headlines, ad copy, and audience targeting. 

Instagram Plots Course in Social Mapping

Instagram Upranks SMBs and Smaller Creators

Instagram is adjusting its ranking algorithms to better surface relevant content. And in the process, it’s creating a more level playing field for SMBs and small creators who otherwise get drowned out by big brands and influencers. 

After a Red-Hot 2024, Will Retail Media Cool Off in 2025 Localogy

Big Box Energy: Retail Media Reaches 200 Networks

Besides AI, retail media networks are perhaps the biggest topic right now in the broader media & advertising sector. This upswing provides a certain amount of energy in the retail sector, following the doldrums and bloodletting of the previous “retailpocalypse.”

As Instagram Retreats, TikTok Emerges As a Shopping Destination

Is TikTok Trying to Become YouTube?

It was spotted this week that TikTok is testing a sizable update to its core media format: longer videos. Specifically, it’s toying with a max upload length of 60 minutes. What does this mean for SMBs?

Meta Streamlines SMB Ad Creation

Meta continues its land grab for AI. Joining the Meta AI suite of generative AI products (images, text, etc.), the company is now expanding its image

LeadzAI Leads a Shift from Ads to Offers Localogy

LeadzAI Leads a Shift from Ads to Offers

‘Pay-per-results’ engine LeadzAI offers SMBs the ability to have programmatic offers-based campaigns. Co-founder and CEO Joao Aroso told Localogy Insider that this is what SMBs want: Sales, not clicks. 

Sam's Club Jumps into 'Exit Tech', Localogy

Sam’s Club Jumps into ‘Exit Tech’

Sam’s Club is the latest retailer to integrate technology that expedites or replaces the traditional checkout aisle. The technology – which we’re calling exit tech – is meant to streamline longstanding logistical bottlenecks in retail.