PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

Amid a rise of influencer-sponsored items on social media, LetsBab enables consumers to shop, recommend and earn money through its new peer recommendation app. The app, which users can download in the United States and the United Kingdom, has 85 brands in the U.K. and 90 brands in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2017

Reveal Mobile, a leading innovator in monetizing location-based audience data, announced the launch of Social Direct, a platform that enables advertising agencies, retailers and brands to leverage location-based audience data for highly targeted social media campaigns.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

When you cut subjectivity out of the mix, a bot’s smart recommendations may just be the thing to help consumers shop better and enable retailers to get a grip on the future of fashion (and conversions). Making Social a Complete Fashion Experience . Bringing Omni to Brick-and-Mortar. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

From eCommerce warehouses like Amazon to social media sales, it’s no secret that constant connectivity has changed many consumers’ shopping habits. But while more people opt for mobile and online channels than ever, traditional brick-and-mortar retail hasn’t vanished. Evolving from Pup to Shark. from 1 percent to 20 percent.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Now that Walmart is officially enjoined in a bid for TikTok with the Redmond, Washington-based software giant, the jury is not out on whether the deal can actually happen, the jury is out on whether Walmart can make TikTok fit into its digital retailing needs. According to Sensor Tower, TikTok was the top non-game app downloaded in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Most might assume the brand was some kind of social media experience for bakers, or perhaps an eCommerce venture built around vanity confections. “GlamScout also offers users a ‘Glam Look’ and a ‘Glam Look for Less,’ the first with prestige brands and the other with mass brands.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Participants could use Visa’s APIs to create a payment solution, leverage social media channels to engage people at Visa-sponsored events or persuade Visa cardholders to go cardless. helps brands build and manage chatbots that consumers can use to transact inside popular messaging apps. Humanizing The Brands. In the U.S.

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Social Assurance

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Marketers and financial brands were challenged this past year. Some brands were able to easily glide into new trends that followed the pandemic, others were forced to hard pivot in order to survive. Or maybe this year was a good year to pause and re-strategize your brand messaging. New Social Platforms to Watch.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

But the real story is a complete and radical repositioning of one of the world’s leading brands toward Digital 3.0. During this difficult time, Nike has inspired and offered hope, and as a result, worldwide affinity for our brand deepened during COVID-19 with our You Can’t Stop Us campaign receiving more than 2 billion impressions to-date.

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CB Insights

MARCH 29, 2019

Visual search is becoming increasingly popular with brands and retailers. GET the 54-page retail TRENDS report. Download the free report to learn about the biggest emerging trends in retail and strategies to watch for 2019. Perhaps more importantly, visual search could help retailers better compete with Amazon.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2018

They are increasingly demanding transparency, traceability and authenticity from the brands they support with their dollars. But Brown said AR could fully eliminate the barrier of packaging, enabling brands to share more than they could fit on a box, can or bottle label. AR, said Brown, could play into those consumer interests.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. According to Dasilva, the past decade-plus has brought three major payments revolutions, each of which shook the retail industry. There’s increasingly less middle ground between getting omnichannel right or fading into oblivion.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

Meanwhile, retailers are scrambling to develop and translate the personalized experience consumers desire into digital features for these devices, using data as well as artificial intelligence and augmented reality. To read the full story, download the report above. About the Report.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retailers have an opportunity to surprise and delight shoppers with digital, connected and omnichannel experiences in the physical store, but many are struggling to make that opportunity pay off. Every brand is vying for attention with video and direct-to-consumer digital media. AR Best Practices.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

To ease the online shopping experience, retailers are increasingly turning to social media platforms to offer consistent support to their customers. With consumers expected to shell out a striking $682 billion this holiday season, retailers are going the extra mile to meet them where they are in a simpler and faster way.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Mladen Vladic, general manager of loyalty solutions at Fidelity National Information Services ( FIS ), said bridging the gap between a satisfied customer and a loyal one is a matter of urgency for firms across all verticals, but especially for retailers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

Our ambition is to expand our supply chain ability to the whole world — to connect any brand, any goods and any consumer globally,” Liu said in an interview. If we want to convince American consumers to download JD’s app and buy, I think it will be hard. Walmart, meanwhile, is working with JD.com to expand operations in China, the U.S.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Pinnacle Foods, which owns Vlasic pickles and other brands, has been targeted by activist investor Jana Partners. Retailers move downstream.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2016

Whatley noted that the payment solution has enabled many charities to accept credit cards, including the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, which uses DipJar in both a retail setting to collect money for themselves and to collect money at events, and the Salvation Army, which uses branded DipJars for various campaigns.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Jason Goldberg, the founder behind Fab.com, announced today that his new project, a social media messaging app called Pepo, earned $2.35 Goldberg reported repeat engagement of new Pepo users at 50 percent, with a roughly estimated tens of thousands of downloads so far. million in a seed funding round.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Even Coca-Cola is introducing more connectivity to its products by introducing a selfie bottle that snaps a photo and shares it to social media. Click here to download the December 2016 PYMNTS.com Internet of Things Tracker™. Nissan is offering a connected device to helps its consumers stay on top of their vehicle’s health.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

When Amazon, the largest retailer by market cap, says that it had its best day ever , it’s hard not to call that a sizzle – and then some. We understand that sometimes brands do things in an effort to get a little boost so that people notice. Pokémon GO: Pet Rock or Opportunity To Rock Retail? Amazon Sellers . As prove by.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Coca-Cola hopes the move will increase brand awareness and enhance customer loyalty. For more on these and other subscription news items, download this month’s Tracker. The service provides fans with swag, surprises and three sample beverages for $10 a month. Patreon’s Quick Response To Subscription Stumble Gains Customer Trust.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Download the free report to learn about the biggest emerging trends in wellness and strategies to watch for 2019. Virtual luxury brands. New luxury brands could emerge selling exclusively virtual goods and accessories. The rise of virtual items could mean new opportunities for the ways products and brands are advertised.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A phenomenon that was once stretched out over the course of a six-month viewing season — and nearly two-dozen post-episode water cooler conversations — has now been compressed into a weekend of binge-watching and cryptic social media posting so as not to spoil the excitement for others. How many ways are their to make Eggos really ?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

RunLocker works with a range of companies, from large national brands to startup-type firms that are making unique products, such as maple syrup gels in Canada. The company doesn’t have a specific age range, but Cardosi noted the demographic is geared toward social media users, which tends to skew a little younger.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

While wine drinkers and those who partake in the harder stuff aren’t unwelcome, beer and the massively propagating number of brands within the category are solidly the drink of choice for America’s sports fan. We believe this will be a game-changer for the beer industry,” Pendegraft said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

Shoppable AR Lenses give brands a new way to leverage our unique scale to drive real and measurable ROI [(return on investment)], whether that’s through sales, downloads, lead gen or video views,” said Peter Sellis, Snap’s director of revenue product. The button is available on its “Shoppable AR” lens product. in the report. “We

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

But in the era of social media, perhaps it is unsurprising that dating was the next thing to be socialized. Match provided the technical side of the partnership, while Betches reports it was behind the branding, marketing and bigger idea. Few, however, have considered having the people in their lives do it for them.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Insight from mobile app analytics firm Sensor Tower showed that competitor Lyft saw its download ranking on iOS rise to number four from 39 in the weekend after #deleteuber propagated. Many analysts believing that brand recognition is one of the main factors for their customer loyalty. millennials have no plans to stop using it.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

What follows is a quick look at the current privacy landscape, and what that means for retailers and other companies that are competing for larger shares of the digital market — including potential business opportunities. Except, maybe not. First, a few caveats. One recent survey found that 78 percent of U.S. In fact, just 9 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Finally, Mercedes-Benz busted Amazon for selling three sets of counterfeit branded wheel caps, which were listed on the platform and marked as “ships from and sold by Amazon.com.” per download and provided a different service from the legitimate, free version. Amazon often skirts copyright and trademark infringement issues in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. Out are the devices that connect to the internet but only do one thing – fitness trackers that only track vital stats or eReaders that only download content, for example.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

His premise knits together a series of storylines that regular readers of PYMNTS are quite familiar with: That the Amazon Effect on retail , despite the company’s 4 percent share of it, is real and that it uses its diversified sources of revenue, like Amazon Web Services, to subsidize its retail business at the expense of traditional retail.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Download the full report to see how Amazon and other tech companies are revolutionizing beauty and personal care. Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Amazon’s next big move could be in beauty retail. Messenger taps brands for beauty bots.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

download the 93-page wellness report. Modern-day “wellness” refers to holistic healthy living characterized by physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being — and the buzzy trend is gaining traction across multiple industries. Beyond “aspirational lifestyles,” brands are emphasizing authenticity and enjoyment.

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