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With BarLink, AMI is blending two different proximity marketing technologies. Geofencing uses the smartphone’s built-in location services to recognize when it is in an AMI location. Geofencing’s advantage is that it’s a software-only solution and can be immediately turned on in all of AMI’s BarLink-enabled locations. Beacons offer a more precise solution in those locations

If you spend a few hours at your favorite neighborhood bar, you’ll be passively exposed to dozens of advertising messages without even noticing them—a coaster bearing an energy drink logo, a neon sign for a liquor brand, a beer brand’s schedule of upcoming football games and the like. Like banner blindness in the real world,