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Burger King To Give Some Venmo Users $1 To Promote New Dollar Menu

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We know that value is extremely important to our guests, especially now," Ellie Doty , chief marketing officer at Burger King North America, said in the release. Burger King's use of marketing efforts that capitalize on a keen sense of social media has won the Miami-based company kudos.

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Facebook Takes On Zillow With Dynamic Ads For Real Estate

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According to reports, the social media giant has launched “Dynamic Ads For Real Estate,” a new advertising feature that might just challenge Zillow’s supremacy in the digital retail arena. Denver, Houston, Miami, and Washington, D.C. Users can view said listings in Instagram or Facebook feeds in a slideshow format.

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Retail Pulse: Kohl’s To Curate Brands With Facebook; Domino’s Rolls Out eBike Tie-Up

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Brick-and-mortar retailers are teaming up with social media platforms to curate labels for their stores and their websites. The retailer also plans to team with Facebook on brand curation starting next year — “identifying and engaging with brands that have built a strong online community on the social media platform.”.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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This year we expect another year of market-leading growth. Noting that existing Carvana markets grew by 84 percent, he said, “The company’s four oldest markets each more than three years old grew by 50 percent and our oldest cohort of Atlanta grew by 18 percent. New Markets. In 2019, we increased GPU by $750.

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Unbundling The Travel Bundle

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Another hair in the soup is Generation Z’s increasing preference toward social media marketplaces that eschew established eCommerce platforms entirely, forcing these businesses to change tactics. Ridesharing giant Uber is also exploring new ways to expand its market footprint.

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COVID Vaccine Adoption Creates New Class Of Influencer

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Pre-pandemic, the answer was much clearer: Good influencers were usually young, attractive, stylish, well-traveled and so naturally charismatic that simply seeing them doing, wearing or eating something was enough to motivate their hundreds of thousands – or even millions – of social media followers to imitate their behavior.

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Visa Opens Its Developer Sandbox To Startups

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With payment and marketing innovation happening at break-neck speed, Visa is once again asking the startup community for their best ideas to help move the industry forward,” Shiv Singh, SVP, digital and marketing transformation at Visa, explained in a press release.