PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

small hotel rooms are the rule, not the exception, and even here in the states the idea has been floating around since 1989 when the Microtel brand began first offering its half-sized, half-priced hotel rooms in Rochester, New York. I really think the genesis of that is coming from millennials. In many locations outside the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

“It is the juxtaposition of social networking and entertainment and sports all combined,” said Glen Calvert , chief operating officer of Fnatic , a London-based eSports outfit that hires professional gamers, runs tournaments and sells branded gaming apparel and gear. It's not just a video game. CMO’s Jaw Hits The Floor.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Millennials love to share. They are proportionally comfortable using gig economy services that provide these things, with about a third of millennials working some sort of gig position themselves. The two-sided marketplace operates in 200 locations across the U.S. Match.com is one of the only brands of its era that still exists.

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Perficient

JULY 20, 2020

There are two main types of healthcare personas, each with different goals. They indicate not just one overarching message, but the finer points of what motivates them, what stops them, what expectations they have for your brand, and more. What are marketing personas versus UX personas?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. Customers on Walmart.com can access styles from brands like C&C California, Butter Super Soft, Puma and BCBG.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2019

The main complaint about Amazon ’s retail horoscopes is that they were a bit boring and generic. And then there are the businesses where astrology is not a side offering – it’s the entire core of the operation. Texting is the language of millennials and younger people today, so we really wanted to harness that,” he said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

The brand they created was called Herbivore Botanicals. Today, the brand is very different than the soap-making operation that was formerly run out of its founders’ kitchen. Herbivore identifies as a prestige skincare brand that sells a lot more than just soap.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Among the biggest debates is how to construct and operate the best card program possible – a decision that served as the foundation for a new PYMNTS interview with Jim Geeslin, head of strategy for Elan Financial Services , an agent credit card issuer. Branding matters, too, especially when outsourcing.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Sustainable commerce is having a moment — well, two or three of them given how millennials and even younger consumers champion the trend — and that applies to food waste and commerce involving meat and plants. The company makes its money via a per-pound fee for its drying services, he said. One potential example of that?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to 40-year-olds who today represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power – will be having their mid-life crises at the age of 50. Amazon, of course, owns Whole Foods and operates its own branded book stores and convenience stores. The year is 2039.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. We’re really focused right now on leveraging the PayPal consumer franchise [to get consumers] back into the SMBs on Main Street. That’s our No.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Among the main virtues of this golden era of eCommerce and digital payments is speed. Online luxury marketplace 1stdibs stands as an example of that kind of content, along with providing — as do some other companies — a demonstration of the appeal of both digital and physical forms of content to tie consumers to a brand or ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In all, it operates in 400 cities in North America and reveals all the choices a consumer has for a ride — giving exposure to smaller rideshares, as well as Uber and Lyft. Whipster seeks to serve a variety of riders, including millennials who’re looking for a new way to get around cities. They don’t want cars.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Two major news items have came out of the world of wellness this month: Hershey announced a $420M acquisition of Pirate Brands, the maker of Pirate’s Booty. Hershey will operate Pirate Brands under Amplify Snack Brands, the healthy snacking business it acquired in Dec’17 for $1.6B.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. The numbers tell a story of ongoing growth and more consumer acceptance. million U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

Brad Fauss, CEO of the National Branded Pre-Paid Card Association and MPD CEO Karen Webster dug into the potential for these rules to create the kind of inconsistencies that could very well disadvantage the very consumers that the CFPB intended to protect. And for some consumers, especially millennials, that’s just not their choice.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

And before there was Chase, there was LevelUp, the branded mobile payments platform that used those same cube-shaped readers to enable QR code payments at the physical POS for consumers with the LevelUp app. Brands franchisees who are now being asked to get on board the Grubhub delivery platform. In February of 2018, Yum!

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As of the end of 2018, for instance, Google research found that 36 percent of international travelers “would likely pay more for services if a travel brand tailored its information and trip experiences to personal preferences or past behavior.” For OTAs and tour operators, taking payment up front is one thing.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

There is a decent chance that the 2018 holiday season will be remembered as a time when it became much more clear that survival in the cutthroat pursuit of commerce depends on the stories one can tell about a product or brand. That includes having the analytical chops that the eCommerce operator has.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As of the end of 2018, for instance, Google research found that 36 percent of international travelers “would likely pay more for services if a travel brand tailored its information and trip experiences to personal preferences or past behavior.” For OTAs and tour operators, taking payment up front is one thing.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

To save physical retail, anyone who wants to operate a physical store must convince consumers that it’s worth their time to—how’s this for an insight?—go Amazon started with zero customers, zero brand awareness and a very ugly website with a clunky user experience, by today’s standards. go there to shop. But consider this.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Cat & Jack is Target’s newest vision — a line of baby and kids clothes, approved by kids, featuring funky colors and cooler cuts — and it is a big move on the rapidly growing market for kids clothes among newly reproducing millennials. And of course, a big risk. Quite the opposite. percent a year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. 1] These data are from the longitudinal studies from March 6 through Nov.

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PYMNTS

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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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

CPG corporates like PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and Campbell, for example, have invested in and acquired a number of brands focused on healthy snacking , while personal care incumbents like P&G and Unilever have backed natural and organic beauty brands. Meet Maya, our hypothetical wellness-focused millennial consumer.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

It’s not as if a person making the request for a tissue, pain reliever or bandage was specifically asking for a Kleenex, Bayer Aspirin or Band-Aid brand item. But, over many decades, these three brand names achieved such dominance in their categories that they became the most natural way for people to refer to all products in that category.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

These programs — which include apps like GrubHub, Foodler, Favor, Seamless and DoorDash – operate independently of merchants, acting as middlemen between in-home consumers and various eateries. According to Duncan, Favor fields inquiries surrounding both its own operations and mishaps that are the restaurants’ responsibilities.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase.

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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. Short-term challenges. Medium-term challenges.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2017

is a rally cry that would perk the ears of many millennials, but how about “ Mastercard , assemble?”. Assemble for millennials is a toolkit that issuers, corporations and IBCUs can use to enable digital financial solutions, in this case targeting millennials, using a single-access digital prepaid product. What Millennials Want.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Consumers – often with friends or family in tow – walked past store after store, a deliberate design consideration by mall operators to maximize the number of stores that consumers had to walk past to get to the anchor store that originally pulled them in. Should they focus on apps? Browsers and search engines? Other ecosystems? With its 1.5

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A consensus says that the future banking customer relationships—particularly for millennial consumers—will orbit to one degree or another around mobile technology. Of course, then there is the ever-present coming generational shift as millions of technology-loving millennials—and those even younger than them—come of age.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2018

And there is no small amount of the Target effect happening on the site: Li Tianqiang, a Foshan food truck operator, spoke about the times over the last several years that he has spent $1,800 (two months’ salary) buying items like an inflatable paddle boat, a fishing bag and a cherry-red motorized car for his young daughter to drive around.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We have brand-new data that reveals how much change is happening. People of all stripes — from millennials to baby boomers, from Generation X to the Greatest Generation — are increasingly swapping the friction of shopping in a store for the convenience of using one of the many connected devices they now own to shop and buy from instead.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

When Bolun Li was in high school, a local bank came in and offered a heavily branded PowerPoint presentation about financial services and money management to students who reacted pretty much the way one would expect. The startup has added a direct incentive. Do a module to earn points (pineapples). What’s Next?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Meanwhile, operating system upgrades give consumers the benefits of new features on older handsets – for free. But for PayPal, Alexa is a particularly scary sight, all wrapped up in the Echo ecosystem, now 50,000 skills strong and embedded in thousands of devices – some that are Amazon-branded, but many that are not.

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