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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Consider Spotify’s branded playlists or Alibaba recruiting its APASS members for marketing purposes. Both are clear and present branded campaigns — and they still draw crowds. But not every brand plays that way. Kellogg’s used the cultural capital that expertise holds to hold influence beyond the marketing space.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

This article is written by me with support from Capital One in conjunction with the release of the brand new Millennial Mindset on Money Survey. If you’re a millennial, your answer is probably pretty boring – smart, but boring. Check out the results below! All opinions are my own. . Serious about saving?

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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. s first microtel in 2016 — Hotel Hive.

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APRIL 19, 2016

But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce. Is it though?

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MAY 28, 2019

Much thought is given to millennials and even Generation Z — consumers who were born during fixed periods of time, and who are having an increasing impact on payments and commerce. million in fresh capital. That group of consumers, born between 1997 and 2016, is 86 million strong and influences $600 billion of spending by families.

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JUNE 12, 2017

And while she ultimately decided not to let food delivery startups (and the venture capital backers) pick up the dinner tab for a year, it seems an ever-increasing number of consumers are electing to have their groceries not only delivered but also premeasured and sent along with a recipe card.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. However, both brands have expanded to additional products, such as Venmo’s credit card and Cash App’s stock investing offering. .

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JULY 13, 2016

Brick-and-mortar retail will forever remember the day that Nintendo released Pokémon GO , a mobile game that has caused millions of millennials to suddenly discover outside again. Not every brand that closes its doors did so last week in infamy, though. . Store Closures. ” Layoffs. And just in case merchants in the U.K.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Attract higher-income customers by bringing in premium brands. Below, we look 11 startups that might be on Walmart’s radar, divided between: Brands. Walmart’s $3.3B Strengthen e-commerce reach and assortment.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Even as the overall brick-and-mortar retail industry struggled, many CPG brands continued to rely on grocery and convenience stores to sell their fast-moving, relatively low-cost products. Direct-to-Consumer CPG Brands. The company offers food, beauty, and home products, generally geared toward millennials. Select Investors.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

What happens when a millennial microlending app teams up with the white-label API of a digital payment network? now and plans to go nationwide with its iOS app in 2016. Lenny will take advantage of Dwolla’s new white-label API to provide branded transfer, account creation, and verification services.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Messenger taps brands for beauty bots. Instagram powers digital beauty brands. Google’s search data helps brands understand beauty shopper preferences. YouTube powers beauty influencers.

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MARCH 23, 2018

Millennials across America singing “I’m a Toys R Us kid” in as solemn a fashion as possible this week are a testament to that. And fueling it all was the rise of television, where brands such as Mattel could market their toys directly to children — stoking the fires of demand. Toys R Us went public in 1978.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

trillion, a $193 billion increase from Q3 and $402 billion higher than the fourth quarter of 2016. Capital One , for example, opened the year with earnings that reflected higher quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year defaults, and a jump of 5 percent in credit loss provisions. percent in 2018 — up from the 4.32

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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. Barington Capital pressured Avon CEO to step down. Pinnacle Foods, which owns Vlasic pickles and other brands, has been targeted by activist investor Jana Partners.

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MAY 31, 2017

The decline between 2015 and 2016 was 1.5%. The red: millennials. And when my friend and fellow bank consultant Mary Beth Sullivan from Capital Performance Group in DC shared the post in the below pic on LinkedIn, it stirred a spirited rebuttal. Between 2012 and 2015, there was a 4% branch reduction. So should your branches.

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Tech and Finance

JULY 13, 2016

Regional and mid-tier banks face an uphill battle on the digital front, but have advantages they can capitalize on with some focus and determination. The largest national banks have pulled ahead in mobile, according a recent Forrester report — the 2016 U.S. The 2016 U.S. Or at least they should be.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Of the companies on our list, 5 are Series A startups that have raised funds this year, 8 are seed or angel stage companies that have raised funds since 2015, and 2 are companies that have raised funds via crowdfunding platforms since 2016. Select Investors : StartLab Galway, Enterprise Ireland, Notion Capital. Disclosed Funding: $2M.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. Since a 2016 low, the number of US-based, VC-backed tech companies has steadily increased. STAYING PRIVATE. EXPLORING CHANGES TO THE IPO.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

I’ve often written about this topic over the last several years, well before the 2016 election dominated the headlines about Facebook’s future as a content platform. Before “fake news,” there were the public beheadings, live shootings, live suicides and bullying – many of which were very viral. And it’s now driving commerce.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Consider that: Half of Indonesia’s population is under the age of 30, with the number of millennials (aged 17-35) in Indonesia currently at 79.5M. in premiums in 2016. Life premiums through the bancassurance channel grew 74% in 2016 vs. 6% in traditional agencies, according to Oxford Business Group.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

And as candle enthusiast and Otherland Founder Abigail Stone learned via an independent study in 2016, quite a lot of millennial women are developing expensive candle habits, precisely because they like to consistently burn scented candles, and about 25 percent report buying 10 or more scented candles a year.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Millennials and Gen Z consumers show a clear preference for it, Kim noted, but widespread global adoption of user-to-user messaging in business applications has been slow to the gate — most of the messaging app market is divided between a handful of massive global technology players.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Even luxury brands are contributing to this problem. In this report, we examine how fashion brands are leveraging technology to make clothing production and consumption more sustainable, from the use of plant-based textiles and bacteria-based dyes to leveraging a blockchain-based supply chain to increase transparency.

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JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” This approach to marketing is enabling a new wave of specialized fast-casual brands to take root.

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JULY 20, 2017

This would represent 9% growth from the 134 deals in 2016. Colorescience , a chemical-free skin care brand, ranked third with a $15M investment. Within branded cosmetics, startups focused on skincare have attracted the most deals. M&A jumped in 2016, with 54 M&A deals. In 2016, e.l.f. Series A in March.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 6, 2015

RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney recently estimated that U.S. Research from mobile vendor Retale indicates that millennials have a high aversion to dealing with store associates and more preference for self-checkout via mobile phones. Get gritty and creative with the trusted brand experience around payments.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

New Bank Positions That Will Be Busy in 2016. Department Whose Brand Isn’t Improving Award. August 2015: MCX announces it may push launch back to 2016. Diebold seizes the merger moment with fledgling Wincor Nixdorf to change its already well-known brand. Financial Brand Forum. Millennials. Diebold Nixdorf.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Khosla Ventures also backed Cafe X Technologies in Q1’17, alongside The Thiel Foundation, Felicis Ventures, and Social Capital. It reported an $84M increase in US consumer robot revenue in 2016 compared to the previous year. Smart money VC Foundry Group backed Chowbotics in a $5M Series A round. Retail salespersons.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 1, 2016

brandCrowder has developed an alternative investment platform focusing on branded franchises. Envestnet | Yodlee offers millennials a solution for measuring financial health and promoting a healthy financial lifestyle. nanoPay offers a payments and loyalty solution for merchants.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. In aggregate, they command $1.3 WHY ARE THEy SUCCESSFUL?

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MARCH 19, 2018

That Apple uses its closed ecosystem and the power of its brand to disadvantage others by denying access or imposing frictions on competing services like Spotify. There’s been no shortage of capital to start new businesses. percent of today’s millennials will never make more than their parents.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Leveraging the Virtual Wallet brand it built years ago, it will be worth watching how PNC fares in 2019. This award goes to Capital One for making bold moves on exiting the mortgage and online brokerage businesses and refocusing efforts on its core card and banking businesses. Capital One quit mortgage late in 2017.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

While Walmart may have four times the revenues of Amazon, the market seems to be betting that it’s the younger, more nimble challenger who’s best prepared to capitalize on the digital waves that are transforming retail and commerce more broadly.”. “ Millennials Are In For Some Hard Times. Contextual Commerce 2.0.

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MARCH 7, 2016

Everywhere else, though, there seems to be a lot that keeps people tossing and turning – and that was before the 2016 Presidential race in the U.S. Lately, though, they’re probably tossing and turning over the difficulties with raising capital coupled with the simultaneous descent of their venture’s valuations. Take physical retail.

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