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Professional Services Automation: Rocketlane
Rocketlane is pioneering what it calls professional services automation. Localogy sat down with co-founder and CEO Srikrishnan Ganesan.
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Is SMB Video Advertising Approaching an Inflection?
Barriers continue to fall for video production – an ongoing democratization process that has made its way to SMB marketing. This is a longstanding trend
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TikTok’s Local Search Ambitions Ratchet up With Reviews
TikTok’s latest move in local search is evident through a new feature it’s testing: place reviews. We examine the evidence.
Agentic AI
vcita Brings Agentic AI to SMBs
vcita has added new dimension with its agentic AI function. Housed within BizAI, it offers automation for agent-like features.
AI
Automating Professional Services: A Conversation with Rocketlane
We recently had the chance to catch up with Rocketlane co-founder and CEO Srikrishnan Ganesan. Here is part 1 of our discussion.
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Exit Velocity: A Conversation with Mark Kabana, Part 2
Yext acquired Places Scout. What were the drivers for the acquisition? We recently had the chance to catch up with Mark Kabana to find out.
AI
Google’s AI Mode Gets Visual
Google is combining AI Mode with multimodal search, which lets you search across media formats, including text, images, and video. What does this combination mean on a surface level and in terms of Google’s AI evolution?
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Good, Bad & Ugly: The State of Venture Funding in 2025
What market signals can quantify the state of venture funding? To answer that question, we turned to our go-to thought leader for all things investing & finance, Circumference Group’s Luca Sechi.
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Tiger Pistol’s Latest Playbook Addresses Revenue Growth for Marketing Resellers.
Marketing resellers are a key piece of the local media & advertising value chain. They help ad tech players scale by bringing their products to
local seo
Exit Velocity: A Conversation with Mark Kabana
Last month, Yext acquired local search benchmarking and intelligence leader Places Scout. What were the drivers for the acquisition and how are the combined forces
AI
vcita Balances Agentic-AI Automation & Control
SMB Saas innovator vcita this week launched a new agentic AI function. Housed in its flagship BizAI software for SMB marketing, it offers an additional layer of automation for agent-like features such as responding to customers, booking appointments, and generating estimates or job quotes.
AI
Automating SMB Video: A Conversation with Creatify, Part II
Creatify tackles the perennial challenge of automating video marketing for time-starved and tech-challenged SMBs.
3D Mapping
Snapchat Gets More Location Aware
Snapchat lenses can now interact with GPS and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems). They can also ingest location-based signals such as compass headings and custom locations, which flow from Snap’s places database.
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Automating SMB Video: A Conversation with Creatify
Creatify tackles the perennial challenge of automating video marketing for time-starved and tech-challenged SMBs.
Location Intelligence
Precisely Expands its Location-Intelligence Reach
Data analytics player Precisely has launched its software on the Snowflake Marketplace, making it more accessible to marketers and operators throughout the land.
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Tiger Pistol Offers Tactical Advice for Local Marketing Resellers
Following a rapid-fire release schedule for its series of tactical playbooks, Tiger Pistol is out this week with the latest edition. Entitled Scaling SMB Advertising: A Marketing Reseller’s Guide to Efficiency, Profitability, and Growth, it focuses on nuances in the art of reselling local advertising programs.
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Read.AI Gets More Interactive & Actionable
Read.AI today announced Search Copilot, an AI-powered engine that retrieves and synthesizes insights from workplace communications. The idea is to have a cross-platform intelligence engine to organize communications across meetings, emails, chats, cloud storage, and CRM systems.
AI
Google’s ‘AI Mode’ Turns Searches into Conversations
Another day, another Google announcement for AI search. Following our coverage yesterday about gen-AI-infused product search, Google has rolled out ‘AI Mode.’ This brings searches from isolated one-off endeavors to a more continuous and progressive string of questions. In other words, a conversation.
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Google Brings Generative AI to Shopping
When looking at all the places where Google continues to blitz AI, we can add shopping to the list. Users can now enter gen AI-style
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Tiger Pistol Builds Bridges Between Franchisors & Franchisees
Tiger Pistol has released its latest playbook, this one focused on franchise marketers. Entitled Building Bridges: How Localized Advertising Creates Trust and Drives Franchise Success, it comes just one week after its last playbook release.