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Foursquare Launches Self-Serve Promoted Listings For Small Businesses

Today, Foursquare announced the launch of self-serve promoted listings for small businesses. The company started testing promoted listings with a handful of local New York City businesses in early June. The new ads don’t rely on user check-ins. Local businesses can promote their listings and offer specials to nearby users. Foursquare says they have been fine tuning their targeting […]

Ginny Marvin on July 23, 2013 at 4:10 pm

Today, Foursquare announced the launch of self-serve promoted listings for small businesses. The company started testing promoted listings with a handful of local New York City businesses in early June. The new ads don’t rely on user check-ins. Local businesses can promote their listings and offer specials to nearby users.

Foursquare says they have been fine tuning their targeting technology during the past year of piloting their ad programs. The self-serve ads rely on the same algorithm that powers Foursquare’s Explore recommendation engine.

Below is an example ad from the Foursquare announcement:

Foursquare Self Serve Ads

Businesses are charged per action — either when users visit the advertising business in person, or click-through to the full listing on Foursquare.

Foursquare says they are making the ad platform available to a few thousand businesses today and will roll-out the service to the 1.4 million local businesses on Foursquare in the coming months.

This is the second advertising service Foursquare has introduced in just the past week as it strives to rev-up earnings. Check-In ads for brands to promote their goods after users check-in rolled-out last Tuesday.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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Ginny Marvin
Ginny Marvin was formerly Third Door Media’s Editor-in-Chief, running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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