Tiger Pistol today launched its 2026 Planning Guides, a set of forward-looking resources aimed at helping marketers navigate an AI-driven era of local advertising. The guides provide actionable insights, data-driven strategies, and best practices for brands looking to scale campaigns efficiently while keeping them authentic to each community.
“2026 is the year local advertising moves from manual to intelligent,” said Sarah Cucchiara, VP of Client Success at Tiger Pistol. “AI and automation allow marketers to personalize creative, targeting, and spend for every location without sacrificing brand integrity or speed.”
The series includes four distinct guides:
- Franchise Brands: 2026 Local Advertising Planning Guide
- Multi-Location Brands: 2026 Local Advertising Planning Guide
- QSR Brands: 2026 Local Advertising Planning Guide
- Marketing Resellers: 2026 Growth Planning Guide
Each guide addresses sector-specific challenges and opportunities, showing marketers how to create scalable, efficient, and future-ready local advertising programs.
How the Guides Help Marketers
The guides reveal how AI and automation are redefining local growth. Highlights include:
- Franchise Brands: AI-driven automation enables franchisors to scale compliant, brand-approved local campaigns while empowering franchisees to participate confidently.
- Multi-Location Brands: Automation, geo-targeting, and co-marketing align national strategy with local execution, turning each location into a growth engine.
- QSR Brands: Predictive intelligence and creative automation help restaurants boost loyalty, engagement, and hyper-local advertising at speed.
- Marketing Resellers: AI reduces operational friction, increasing capacity, profitability, and client retention while supporting SMB growth without adding headcount.
What’s Inside
Each guide offers:
- Data-backed benchmarks from Localogy, BIA Advisory Services, and other industry leaders
- Roadmaps for piloting, scaling, and optimizing AI-powered campaigns in 2026
- Real-world success stories from leading brands
- Action plans connecting creative, automation, and analytics for measurable ROI
As AI continues to reshape local advertising, Tiger Pistol’s guides aim to be a practical playbook for marketers looking to blend technology with local expertise—turning insight into street-level results and measurable growth.
