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JULY 29, 2016

Instagram followers and engagement has skyrocketed among brands and celebrities over the past year, according to a study by ARK Investment Management , illustrating that the photo-sharing social platform “seems to be cementing its position as the ideal platform for premium brand advertising.”. “In

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

2015, CEO Francisco Gonzalez said, “Some bankers and analysts think that Google, Facebook, Amazon or the like will not fully enter a highly regulated, low-margin business such as banking. BBVA has a lot more going on than Simple, cool as that acquisition was. I disagree. What is more, Read More.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The innovation economy requires more than caffeine and collaboration for fuel. WeWork also wants to make a bigger name for itself as an enabler of innovation. Its founders, three sisters from San Francisco, turned down Mark Cuban’s $30 million offer to buy the startup in 2015. Innovation Program. Innovator Awards.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Food brands are making coffee more accessible by packing the energy-boosting ingredient into snack bars sold by one-time purchase and subscription. 2015: The year Eat Your Coffee launched as a business. In tech, smart mirrors can help shoppers try on clothes, driving sales and bigger basket conversions. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In retail, the Flat Tummy Instagram brand was able to make an effective algorithm that could accurately predict the effect an influencer would have on pushing its line of teas. 500,000: Number of Instagram followers Flat Tummy had on its own in 2015. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

In 2015 The Guardian advised that we should all take our Thanksgiving turkey and “ throw it in the garbage ,” prompting us to admire the temerity it takes for a group of Englishmen to offer instructions on a holiday they do not actually celebrate. There isn’t a lot of room to really innovate the Thanksgiving turkey. Or is there?

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JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. Distribution. But, I digress.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 21, 2019

N26, the digital-only banking brand based out of Berlin, began a staged rollout of its app in the U.S. The brand launched in Europe in 2015 and has since gained 3.5 earlier this summer before becoming widely available to American consumers in August. million customers in 25 countries, according to a company statement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

Now that Apple’s less-than-stellar earnings report has had time to propagate throughout the industry, the commonsense takeaway is that the company has lost a piece of the innovation mojo that has defined the brand for so long. Haters beware — Apple isn’t taking that criticism laying down.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2019

percent between 2015 and 2017, according to the Global Wellness Institute. That the markets are changing is observable in what feels like an unending parade of brands looking to jump on board with the trend. Well, with innovation of course. As of 2018 health and wellness was a $4.2 trillion annual industry , having grown 12.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

No, the only way you can get your hands on these “exclusive” bad boys is if you follow Warby Parker on Snapchat , where the brand shared a Snapchat story with its followers containing a URL taking users to a page where they could purchase the super-limited edition frames, according to TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

.” That’s been a law of the natural retail world for as long as head-to-head competition has been the means by which one brand sinks and another brand swims. And like Walgreens is now painfully aware, sometimes the mad dash to gobble up innovative startup partners can lead merchants down a dark path.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. A recent study found that despite problems with megabank perception, 73% of those asked said a recognizable brand was important in choosing a financial institution. There were a couple of overarching themes throughout the event.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Well, what do we say about 2015? And, give or take a stumble or two, we snuck through it and did a reasonable job on 2015 objectives, in our humble opinion. So, it seems we’re good with only one outstanding item—digest the 2015 GonzoBanker Awards! 2015 Executive Call-out. Department Whose Brand Isn’t Improving Award.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

By fully activating services at OXXO, Western Union’s retail Agent network has nearly doubled to more than 26,600 locations, from approximately 13,500 at close of 2015. “We “Our innovative self-service feature in Mexico in collaboration with OXXO is part of our strategy to digitalize our retail network. .

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In 2015, Americans ate $7.7 And while people like yogurt — apparently, a lot — until very recently, it was not a product anyone really thought much about or tried to innovate. It was apparently the yogurt innovation the American public didn’t know it needed. As of 2015, about half of the yogurt sold in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

After turning Taco Bell into a lifestyle brand and introducing breakfast at the quick service restaurant (QSR), CEO Brian Niccol is heading to Chipotle Mexican Grill. Niccol, who came to Taco Bell in 2011, became CEO in 2015 after holding the position of president. He brought mobile ordering and payments to Taco Bell’s 7,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

“We’re continuing our breakfast innovation by adding tasty new sweet options with our new McCafé Bakery lineup. McDonald’s later pivoted to healthier offerings, announcing in 2015 that it was committed to sourcing 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2025.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. In 2015, these two researchers went back into the lab to dive deeper. Research that we did in 2015 on this topic then reported that nearly 60 percent of all searches related to commerce started in Amazon.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Who ever imagined that the ways in which we pay would become so enmeshed in feelings of customer satisfaction, brand loyalty, and the profound commercial affinities now achievable? Nearly 80 percent of FI executives believe these innovations will help them differentiate themselves and compete, the study showed.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

Marketplaces and brands now make it easy now to auto-refill everything from paper towels to pet food, skin crèmes to salty snacks, bottled water to baby wipes. consumers have tried a new brand in the last 60 days, and have made that purchase directly from the brand via an online channel. So do pet product brands.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2021

Founder and CEO Anthony Hsieh said in a letter with the filing that the company, founded 11 years ago, has been “committed to providing honest products with great value, and committed to delivering them in an innovative, delightful way.”. “To To do what we did back then took more than wisdom and tenacity, it took courage,” he wrote. “We

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

She continued, “The convergence of commerce and convenience is opening up exciting potential for restaurants, and we are thrilled to work with BMW and our pilot brands to experiment with how in-car ordering will evolve and shape how consumers order.”. The pilot is available for BMW vehicles from model year 2015 and later.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The once pure play eCommerce business will open 12 new physical locations next year, adding to the 18 existing Fabletics locations that began launching in the Fall of 2015.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial. Media companies, in the meantime, shoveled tens of millions into Snap in the hopes of selling to a generation whose brand loyalty is about as fleeting as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s affection for each of her nine husbands.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Fast casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill became one of the first major restaurant brands to pioneer the mobile ordering experience in 2008. West recently spoke with PYMNTS about how the chain supports ordering innovations and examines customers’ preferences to improve future experiences. . “In Real Ingredients Meet AI.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Goat Group, named for the sports acronym “greatest of all time,” was started in 2015 by college buddies Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano. Foot Locker has lately been investing heavily in online companies, including women’s activewear company Carbon38, children’s brand Super Heroic and Pensole, a footwear design academy. million so far.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Since opening their first store in Palo Alto, California, in 2015, b8ta has aimed to offer just such an experience: the ability to snap up tech products that might otherwise be hard to find — and buy anyplace but online. B8ta’s path to profit is a bit different from everyone else in retail, however.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Ordering a cup of joe in the morning is standard practice for many, but customers couldn’t order it from their phones until 2015, when international coffee chain Starbucks launched order-ahead on its mobile app. UX, Payments and App Innovation. Costa needs to innovate continuously. Costa Coffee , the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Founded in 2015 by Spanish entrepreneur Oier Urrutia, the company uses algorithms to provide users with a personalized online shopping experience. Lookiero’s inventory includes more than 150 European brands, with the platform shipping more than three million items of clothing this year to seven European countries.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

QVC has a longstanding history of bringing beauty products to life by leveraging the best storytellers and innovators behind our prestige brands. YouCam Makeup strives to push the boundaries of innovation and continues to solve and serve all of our beauty customer and brand needs. percent in 2015. CEO Alice Chang.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Christopher Thomas-Moore, Domino’s vice president of global eCommerce and digital marketing, explained that the availability of these programs can go a long way toward building a company’s brand in the eyes of consumers. Domino’s Piece of the Pie Rewards loyalty program launched in 2015. Customers want to see value,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

The privately-held appliances brand sells vacuum cleaners under the Shark logo, while its line of food processors, coffee makers, pressure cookers and blenders are sold under the Ninja branding. In the United States, Shark vacuums run the market — it’s the top selling upright brand and owns 35 percent of the market.

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