Pinterest has always been advantaged by context and user intent. By cultivating shopping and product discovery, it set itself up to monetize in natural ways. And it has slowly leaned into that over the past few years. We examine its latest moves.
Located in Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, Otomisan has been in the reputation management business for 66 years – LA’s longest-standing Japanese restaurant. Without spending
Taking inspiration from Chat GPT, Yext has launched an AI-powered chatbot. Known as Yext Chat, it lets enterprises integrate a chat function on their web properties for a variety of customer service use cases.
As part of its ongoing ad monetization play, Roku is leaning into CTV ads. The company has partnered with DoorDash to combine CTV advertising and local restaurant promotions – to our knowledge the first company to do so.
In all the excitement around generative and conversational AI, the online punching bag seems to be Google. But the company may actually be best positioned for any AI, given the knowledge graph it’s been building for almost 25 years. We examine the evidence.
Beyond Meta’s overall Q4 results, the bigger story may be what’s occurring within Meta Reality Labs (MRL). This is where it houses R&D and production for AR, VR, and all things metaverse. We go behind the numbers.
In Snap’s Q4 results, one nugget buried in the earnings call caught our attention: the continued ramping growth of Snapchat+. It has reached two million users, up from one million in August and zero in June. We unpack strategic takeaways.
In an ongoing effort to provide more transparency on how its local search and reviews engine works, Yelp has released its latest Trust & Safety report. It details how the company uses machine learning and human moderation to quell deceptive content
The latest trend in logistics and yield optimization in retail has emerged: Drive-up-only grocery stores. This takes the curbside pickup option that inflected during the pandemic, and makes it the only option. We examine the latest attempt at this model.
Calendly is a much-loved scheduling tool that streamlines the art of booking calls or meetings. It seems that Zillow is a fan of the functionality too because it has integrated a Calendly-like function to streamline rental tour bookings. We take a look.
Amidst a suffering economy, tripledemic, and other world volatility, Yelp brings us some good news. The firm reports in its 2022 New Business Openings Report that the past year saw a record number of SMBs open in the U.S..
Today the U.S. Department of Justice fired a shot at Google with a new suit that alleges antitrust behavior. It claims that Google’s suite of online advertising tools prevents competitors from entering the online ad market and blocks publishers from monetizing content.
The latest edition of Localogy’s “This Week in Local” podcast delves further into the topic of the day –what impact will ChatGPT have on Google
Joining Microsoft’s ongoing Retail-as-a-Service efforts, the latest from Redmond is a new partnership with retail tech startup AFI to create and support smart stores. Known as Smart Store Analytics, it provides retailers with shopper and operational analytics.
eCommerce merchants have something new to think about: the option to incorporate Amazon’s “Buy with Prime.” The company announced that this program, already available to third-party merchants on Amazon, will be available in to non-Amazon merchants this month.
The creator economy continues to gain momentum. Partly Covid-accelerated, professionals of all kinds are reinventing their careers as socially-fueled creators and developers. How is this subset being cultivated? TikTok is the latest player to cater to creators.
One promising AR use case is retail. The idea is that you can get in-aisle product information through AR overlays. It can create more informed and empowered shoppers. Apple is the latest to jump in.
Apple Maps’ new self-serve business listings feature follows Google’s model for Google Business Profiles (GPB). Known as Apple Business Connect, it allows SMBs to add and maintain their listings.
What’s different in location intelligence today versus ten years ago? How does gen-z think about location? And what are the dynamics around getting people to opt-in to share location? We tackle these questions with Gravy Analytics.
Apple is the latest mapping player to raise the stakes with this week’s addition of parking info. With the help of SpotHero, Apple Maps will now display real-time availability for 8,000+ parking spots in North America.
