PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The brand largely focuses on (and sells to) younger shoppers — particularly millennials and Gen Z. The part of its business — and the use of its proprietary technology — the firm is most known for is in how it leverages its army of more than 2,500 social media influencers who drive the firm’s marketing efforts. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Bebo began in 2005 as a social networking platform by Michael and Xochi Birch. The growth path of the company in addition to the larger opportunity in social media helped it get acquired by AOL for approximately $850 million in 2008. Most estimates for 2018 are approximately $900 million.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The social media-focused platform company’s business model is simple: it’s a retail destination for consumers looking to sell their second-hand apparel and other goods or pick up desirable designer items for fraction of the price. Unique to Poshmark are social media aspects like the ability to share “likes” on favored items. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. consumers shop and pay — today and in the future.

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FICO

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This year, in the spirit of efficiency, I’m combining both predictions and resolutions by forecasting that in 2018, my wallet is going to go on a diet; it will definitely become slimmer as physical (plastic) credit cards are replaced with payment apps on my smart phone. My Predictions for 2018. Follow me on Twitter @FraudBird.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Text messaging, social media, Pinterest and memes have all been offered up as avatars of destruction — and the general consensus seems to be that the death of conversation is a direct result of the digital age and probably has something to do with millennials. Kirk Bresniker, chief architect of Hewlett Packard Labs for HPE.

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BankBazaar

JULY 1, 2019

The award is in recognition of BankBazaar Aspiration Index 2018. Given the emergence of Indian millennials as a key target group for every marketer, we recommended a specific focus on this target group in client’s communication. We launched a category-first Millennial Aspiration Index representing the target group’s aspirations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. They are increasingly seeing the upper-end of their prime demographic, a group PYMNTS titled bridge millennials. population.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

German global discount grocery chain Lidl is reportedly gearing up to make its stateside debut this coming summer, earlier than the 2018 deadline the company had previously set. Among age demographics, 66 percent of millennials interact with supermarkets on digital platforms. supermarket like Kroger. The grocery chain has opened a U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Going into the 2018 holiday shopping season, there were worries about a shortage of live Christmas trees — as is the case with all agriculture, farmers who grow trees are under often relentless pressure to sell their land for development — but that does not seem to have materialized. An longstanding adage — cliché? Christmas Tree Farmers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

One of the takeaways from the Platform Economy Playbook is that amidst tech innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) to help personalize clothing selection and speed up delivery and social media-powered commerce, customer service has become a differentiator. Ann Taylor and New York and Company were early participants.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one). Back to 2012.

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Accenture

MAY 7, 2019

As of December 2018, Revolut had 200,000 Irish customers , an increase of fourfold in just over a year. And it’s not just millennials who are thinking of jumping ship. However, this isn’t just a frustration for your average millennial. From an Irish perspective, the challenge is here now. Complexity needs the human touch.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Indeed, that is one of the main ideas behind Instagram ’s recent move to offer three new ways for users of the Facebook-owned photo-sharing social media platform to discover products. PYMNTS recently caught up with Paige Cohen, manager at Instagram to learn more about Instagram’s updates to their shopping features.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one). Back to 2012.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Students also are moving away from buying new fast fashion items — usually relatively inexpensive and reflective of the latest apparel trends — via social media activities, according to that Spectator report. In 2018 alone fast fashion as a segment of the apparel industry brought in over $35 billion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Turnarounds in tech — and in social media in particular — are not unheard of, Nathanson wrote, meaning it is not impossible for Snap to snap back from all this. But at this point, he is skeptical that Snap can manage a hat trick. Yes, we’re discontinuing the Snapcash feature as of Aug.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. Millennials and Gen Z are driving the growth of the secondhand market and eCommerce, generally. Social Media. Globally, the industry loses $30.3 billion per year to fake online sales.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

While the firm is small today, as of February 2018 it snapped up $10.8 We leverage on social media trends to attract travelers to choose the unconventional packages and influence others to do the same.”. million in a Series B funding round to expand its operations.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Hosts are present and accessible across social media — particularly Facebook and Instagram — and the content on-air is also broadcast across the web where millennials are somewhat more likely to consume it. And the the brand isn’t just moving its sales online, but is increasing expanding its businesses there. Signs of Traction.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Nearly half (47%) of Millennials and a little more than a third (36%) of Gen Zers and Gen Xers engage in shadow financial activities. For example, among Millennials with one checking account, the percentage that has overdrawn their account increased from 28% in 2018 to 33% in 2020. I’m extremely proud of her!

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Whether it’s Netflix or Spotify, Farnsworth explained, millennials prefer subscription services for their anytime, on-demand access and the seamless experiences they offer. million subscribers by 2018. It took us a couple weeks to get our heads around the issues and start addressing them.”. The other side of subscription commerce .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

With over 200 million monthly views and millions of subscribers globally, izo , the parent of media company DanceOn , is a digital network devoted to original dance-centric video and music content for millennials and Gen Z audiences. 21, 2018 at 1:00pm (EDT), please complete the registration form below: [contact-form-7].

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

With over 200 million monthly views and millions of subscribers globally, izo , the parent of media company DanceOn , is a digital network devoted to original dance-centric video and music content for millennials and gen-z audiences.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2018

Part of it is a savvy social media-based distribution model through WeChat. It’s what is driving the discount chain Five Below to open another 128 stores in 2018 (including one on the most expensive street in Manhattan), on top of the 600 they already have and on the way to the 2,500 they aim to open in total in the United States.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While Tencent groups the results of the division with business services (cloud and B2B services), fintech is now driving growth at the social media and gaming giant. But in September 2019, Yu’e Bao lost the top money market fund spot as its assets shrunk 39% from its peak in March 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Facebook reported on their website that their teams have made progress: They removed 837 million pieces of spam in Q1 2018 before anyone reported it, disabled 583 million fake accounts “within minutes” of going online and removed 24 million inappropriate pictures related to violence and nudity. million such pieces. eBay … and eBay.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

See the investment trends, top deals, and active investors in Q2 2018. You might not expect to find the “instagrammability” trend surfacing in the world of debit cards, but fintech companies are hoping to draw millennials to physical cards with colorful, minimalist designs. Source: Bloomberg , June 2018.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Online giving is nothing new, but as John Gossart , COO and co-founder of fundraising resource Goodworld , explained, hashtags, social media and viral marketing could bring significant changes to the digital charity space — changes that could have big impacts in commerce and payments in general. Does #Donate Lead to #Buy?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Notably, millennials are more lifestyle-focused, placing a greater value on health and wellness over material goods than ever before. According to Eventbrite data, 78% of millennials would choose to spend money on a desirable experience over buying physical goods. Meet Maya, our hypothetical wellness-focused millennial consumer.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Fraud in IoT was also found to be 12 times higher this year than it was for the same period in 2018, and fraudsters are unlikely to slow their momentum in the space over the remainder of the year. There were 760 million fraud events for IoT devices using a single protocol this year, according to one recent study.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2018

Recently, the company laid out expectations for 40% e-commerce growth in 2018 (fiscal year 2019). Its branding and pricing could hit the sweet spot for Walmart — it aims to target well-informed millennial and Gen X shoppers, and its sneakers today sell for $95, which is premium but not quite luxury. Increase in-store efficiency.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2019

That represents a gain in ground for action and adventure travel — which in 2018 was only number 2 in the family-specific list tracked in Virtuoso’s Luxe Report. That gain, according to the report, is largely driven by social media savvy Gen Z consumers, who tend to exert a larger than expected amount of sway in bookings.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And, as has been their custom for the last eight decades, retailers by and large are not happy with the calendar this year — with many warning that it could kick off a shaky end to the year — because the holiday shopping season in 2019 is a nearly a full week shorter (6 days to be exact) than it was in 2018 when Thanksgiving was early.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

58 percent of sales growth from 2018 occurred online. Recent social media sales i nnovations and a robust economy further the dominance of online shopping. Millennials’ buying habits have increased both Black Friday and online sales, and they continue to shape branding and in-person consumer engagement trends.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Google UK hosted its inaugural “Connected Beauty” event in October 2018, bringing speakers from YouTube, Sephora, indie beauty brands, and more to discuss trends across consumer beauty product discovery. In 2018, viewers have watched an average of more than a million beauty videos on the platform every day. Partnerships.

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CB Insights

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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