PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

More than a store or a brand, The Sharper Image was the traditional mecca of the husbands, fathers and boyfriends along for mall trips they didn’t really want to be on, offering consolation in the form of a session in the vibro-massaging leather recliner and the opportunity to touch a plasma globe.

Branding 101

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. social media users are “very confident” that those platforms would protect users’ data, according to Pew — with 64 percent calling for more regulation of online advertisers.

Online 101

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. It gives user the freedom to shop online and spread four equal payments across six weeks. . Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. .

Minneapolis 187

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time. It turns out that retailers geared toward this younger demographic are having a tough time engaging them online.

Retail 127

Retail social media Online Mobile 127

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The company is doing away with a revival plan hinged on bringing out new products as well as adding businesses, while its new strategy is to reduce debt, downsize and turn back a failed makeover of one of its best-known and most sizable brands, The Wall Street Journal reported. and CVS Health Corp.

New York City 102

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The number of brands that consider a content strategy effective in raising revenue increased from 74% in 2016 to 83% in 2017. Understanding the goals of the brand. PR is the natural home for earned media, but you’ll have to show your C-suite or your clients that you can deliver the goods in this competitive environment.

Trends 115

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time. It turns out that retailers geared toward this younger demographic are having a tough time engaging them online.

Retail 114

Retail social media Online Mobile 114

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. The change in behavior is due, in part, to social media sites such as Instagram. These platforms bring urgency to fashion and serve as a newsfeed for brands. billion) in 2016, a 20 percent increase from the prior year.

Millennials 158

Millennials New York City social media Branding 158

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. It gives user the freedom to shop online and spread four equal payments across six weeks. . Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. .

Fintech 130

Fintech Minneapolis social media Retail 130

CB Insights

AUGUST 30, 2018

While the immediate impact is on the parenting and baby tech space, CPG and food brands looking to enter China have an opportunity here as well. Approximately 40% of Chinese consumers still feel that food safety is a “very big problem,” according to a 2016 study by the Pew Research Center.

Branding 42

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A lifestyle brand for millennial buyers with an eye for design – but perhaps not the pocketbook for designer prices – the watch and accessories startup MVMT started on its path in 2013. After doing some research on suppliers, the duo found quite a staggering gap between wholesale and retail prices in watch brands.

social media 101

social media Branding Millennials Groups 101

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What brands used to guide their merchandising processes in the old paradigm requires too much manual input, hinging on data sets and models that are too general, and accruing too slowly — too much like a “fulfilling prophecy,” he noted. However, it is increasingly out of data, and out of step with modern consumer behavior and preferences.

Retail 132

Retail Trends Analytics social media 132

PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Particularly popular, according to the report, are Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci, Nike, Fendi and Balenciaga-branded items. That is a 171 percent increase from Ghost’s 2016 analysis. And, according to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. trillion every year.

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social media Branding Survey Report 123

CB Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2018

But while games themselves rise and fall, companies need to prepare for a future with thinner and thinner lines between the physical world and the online arena. The spike in the chart below shows a range of public company executives talking up their Pokemon Go-related initiatives on earnings calls in mid-2016. The rise of e-sports?

Branding 40

Branding Video social media Online 40

PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

The Kitewheel study looked at data from over 1 billion real-time, cross-sector brand and customer interactions, captured via Kitewheel’s Customer Journey Hub. As VB highlighted, while brands are investing more heavily in omnichannel campaigns, they have not steered away from email. But what about social media , you might be asking?

Mobile 100

Mobile social media Study Branding 100

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OCTOBER 19, 2019

Instagram, like most social media platforms, does not allow users under a certain age, but usually will note somewhere in the terms of service that parents can run an account on their child’s behalf. Ryan’s first video, which was posted in 2016, has to date received some 48 million views. He now stars in his own Nick Jr.

social media 101

social media Video Hawaii Branding 101

PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Between 2015 to 2016, consumer expectations for multiple purchase options grew from 61 percent up to 74 percent according to Retail Systems Research’s 2016 Customer Experience/Unified Commerce Benchmark Survey. And both retailers and CPG companies face competition from online superstores, such as U.S.

Retail 137

Retail social media Customer Experience Boston 137

PYMNTS

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. But not every brand plays that way. So, what’s a major brand to do? So, what’s the big deal?

Branding 100

Branding Millennials social media Marketing 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

This is evident with China’s JD.com snapping up luxury brand marketplace Farfetch for a cool $397 million this summer. This is due to the fact that hot spot destinations are more apt to have better access to high-end brands. In buyer news this week, social media is proving to be a major influencer factor across all generations.

Millennials 122

Millennials Survey Retail social media 122

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Unsurprisingly, fast food patrons immediately began warring on social media about whether or not the results could be trusted. People on social media will engage in online debate for almost any reason — sometimes no reason at all. Chick-fil-A’s average sales per restaurant in 2016 were $4.4

Innovation 100

Innovation Oregon social media Payments 100

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AUGUST 14, 2018

The 100-page catalog would arrive near the end of October for kids to look through and create wish lists before December — filling, perhaps, the void left by Toys R Us when it went out of business (in part because of competition from Amazon and other online retailers). Online retail accounted for 53.7 Williams Sonoma is one example.

Retail 102

Retail social media Conference Groups 102

PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

Procter & Gamble made headlines last week when its Chief Brand Officer, Marc Pritchard, confirmed that the world’s largest advertiser cut $200 million of digital advertising spend in the last nine months of 2017. In the face of the big brand digital ad spending backlash, it seems now big brands are thinking that way too.

Google 123

Google Branding social media Video 123

Social Assurance

JULY 21, 2016

Passengers were left stranded with nothing to do but sit on their phones, pout and voice their frustrations on social media. However, Southwest stepped up and used social networks to communicate with their customers, address concerns and face the crisis head on. — Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) July 20, 2016.

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social media System Video America 12

William Mills

MAY 10, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Qumrum allows banks to actually document customer interactions online. We enable FIs to record everything that goes on with the customers transactions on mobile, online, social and let the FI validate interactions on that site.

San Jose 40

San Jose Customer Experience Mobile social media 40

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Do no go online and get another online loan. Under the scenario the consumer can transfer much-needed cash as well get cash (that was earned, not paid yet) so no payday or online lending debt is added. Maria Gurina (Bus.

Video 40

Video Lending social media Analytics 40

William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at Finovate Fall 2016. Now showing how Avoka can integrate with a ton of apps in a matter of days with your company’s brand. Franchises – Americas greatest brands” They have a list view function where investors can investigate franchises near and far. franchising sector.

social media 40

social media ATM Mobile Customer Experience 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

We’re a dietary-sensitive brand,” said Rettker. Our online ordering really makes that easy for the guest to make sure they’re getting exactly what they want.”. The app features mobile payments, nutrition information, rewards and in-app ordering — including the critical option to customize anything.

social media 109

social media Mobile Boston Payments 109

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

.” Google was just granted a patent focused on pinpointing, notifying, and rewarding “trendsetters” – aka early consumers of online content that ends up goes viral. Microsoft just won approval for a patent focused on detecting, classifying, and scoring “experts” for their expertise on specific topics based on their online activity.

Google 77

Google social media Video System 77

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Integrate with any online merchant site. Customers can store all of their online profiles in one secure location to improve user experience. Retail for a piece.

Video 40

Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

Long Lasting Ideas

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

For the first time, online local advertising is expected to overtake all local analog media. In fact, digital is expected to eat up more than half of all local ad dollars in 2016, according to Borrell Associates. In fact, Borrell predicts that online local advertising is expected to grow by 36.9

social media 40

social media Community Tools Strategy 40

Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For those unfamiliar, mBank is a Polish direct bank brand established by BRE Bank in 2000 as one of the first of its kind in the country. Thanks to the mBank’s business achievements and potential of the brand as first and the biggest internet bank in Poland, BRE Bank Group decided in 2013 to change company name to mBank.

Branding 100

Branding Retail social media Video 100

CB Insights

JANUARY 9, 2018

New York-based AccelFoods , which made its first round of disclosed investment in early 2014 (a series of $50K seed investments to startups including insect protein brand Exo ) and has since then made over 40 more. It recently, for example, led a $1M seed round into MA-based jerky startup Kalahari Brands. Dr Pepper Snapple paid $1.7B

Memphis 65

Memphis social media Branding CA 65

NCR

JUNE 29, 2016

Coming of age during the last recession and being subjected to the barrage of headlines about financial executives misbehaving, many Millennials are distrustful of established financial brands and institutions. are in the bottom 10 of the least loved brands by Millennials. Viacom Media Networks. 75% of U.S.

Millennials 45

Millennials social media User Experience Branding 45

CB Insights

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.

Google 72

Google Apple Industry Branding 72

PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2017

But for now … 14 billion visits to online retailers in the past year, from May 2016 to May 2017, and 14 million visits via social media mentions is nothing to sneeze at, speaking to wide recognition of the lure of the devices. based consumers will use a voice-activated assistant in 2017, which is up 129 percent from 2016.

Bitcoin 100

Bitcoin Google social media cryptocurrency 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

I n the mid-late-1980s, the online shopping channel of choice was the television – and QVC one of the granddaddies of what was hailed as “home shopping.” And you could buy some of the same stuff that you can buy today online. The notion of a “limited time offer” seems ironic now in 2016. It wasn’t always that way.

Mobile 100

Mobile Retail Video social media 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

I n the mid-late-1980s, the online shopping channel of choice was the television – and QVC one of the granddaddies of what was hailed as “home shopping.” And you could buy some of the same stuff that you can buy today online. The notion of a “limited time offer” seems ironic now in 2016. It wasn’t always that way.

Mobile 100

Mobile Retail Video social media 100