PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Layered onto those closures was the running wave of bankruptcies that saw 21 retailers filing for protection, including some household names like Toys R Us. retail and apparel markets are nearing recession levels, tripling in the past six years. The brand has grown gradually and cautiously during that time.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. Shubert Ticketing sells tickets through its retail brand, Telecharge, as well as through hundreds of third-party agents.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Our new platform is designed to help brands and creators realize that goal, and bring their products to life in minutes rather than weeks.”. For now the proprietary 3D viewer and CMS enables brands to get onto customers’ screens before manufacturing and allows them to virtually try-on products at home.

Retail 259

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. Shubert Ticketing sells tickets through its retail brand, Telecharge, as well as through hundreds of third-party agents.

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blockchain Boston US Customer Experience 100

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 14, 2024

For financial marketers, especially those in credit unions and community banks, the biggest event of the year, The Financial Brand Forum , is just two months away. For the most part, early-bird (or very-early-bird) prices are still in effect, so you can easily save $1,000 or more on a pair of tickets.

Conference 15

Conference Fintech Marketing Las Vegas 15

PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Wayfair , for instance, opened a store at the Natick Mall in suburban Boston, where consumers can experience products firsthand before making a purchase, after debuting a pop-up shop there last year. Online furniture retailers are stepping further into the world of physical retail with permanent brick-and-mortar stores.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

trillion global B2B e-Commerce market,” he said, in a Tuesday (June 2) press release. Alibaba.com Freight has helped us continue to source from overseas and expand our product line even during this global crisis, and we are set to launch four new products for the summer.”. based B.A.A.B.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Caesars Entertainment announced that it has reached an agreement to offer DraftKings , the leading sports-tech entertainment brand in the country, providing market access for its online gaming products. The access is exclusive to Caesars locations across select states where the company operates casino properties. and Australia. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2016

The new platform, called Magellan , has been built by Wayfair’s very own data science, engineering and marketing teams to enhance the effectiveness of its display advertising campaigns, which will now provide in-depth insights on its target audience and real-time optimization.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

With direct marketing hit by robocall abuse and the National Do Not Call Registry , direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands and other not-so-usual suspects are looking into and in some cases reinstating door-to-door sales. We just started a month or two ago, and we’re now getting comments that will allow us to make an assessment.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company won the auction with a bid of just under $19 million, The Boston Globe reported. “We We started as a family-owned candy company back in 1847, [and] we’re thrilled to work with a fourth-generation candy company that brings new stewardship to our brands,” Necco Chief Executive Michael McGee told the Globe. “I

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

DraftKings already has similar arrangements with three NBA franchises: the Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers. The hat trick right now is to keep fans engaged while the market normalizes. We’re talking about the strengths of virtual teams right now, but this is the current landscape.”. percent over the same period.

Online 168

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Founded in 2012 in Los Angeles, the digital marketing firm works to bridge (hence the name) the gap so that the various communications don’t fall into the void. “We Bridge has a two-tiered approach to cracking the loyalty market: Identify the right targets and then aim wide when approaching on digital channel. Redefining Goals .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

“The new investments and our partnership with Social Capital signify the confidence in our strategy, the momentum in our business, as well as the significant growth opportunity ahead of us,” SoFi CEO Anthony Noto said in a statement, which also noted the secular acceleration in digital-first financial services. The FinTech IPO Market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

That’s what PYMNTS surveys tell us, anyway. We’ve baked all the sourdough bread we can reasonably bake, and are ready to return to a bygone time when it wasn’t someone else’s job to just cook for us (something we can replace with takeout), but to actually serve us as well. marketing director, told the Huffington Post. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. Or the chatty person who strikes up a conversation with the only cashier on duty while the rest of us cool our heels. I’ve noticed that in many Boston stores now, I’m not charged for a paper bag. The Ban on the Ban.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. The two brands first started working together in 2015. That aside, whatever drama goes down on the gridiron on Sunday (Feb. However, the ad is up on YouTube and has gotten half a million views since CBS rejected it.

Boston 150

Boston Retail Branding Payments 150

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Retailer bankruptcies were up 30 percent in 2017 , with a number of familiar names in that list of 662 firms: Payless ShoeSource , Toys R Us and The Limited. The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees. The average height of a female in the U.S. A week ago it was 28 degrees.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. Being too successful at flying under the radar, at best, confuses the target market or audience and, at worst, just misses them entirely.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Kate Rettker, senior marketing manager and manager of the Protein Bar’s mobile order-ahead process, said the company has tweaked its app design to feature more distinct pops of color and better menu functionality, including adding photography. Because they are special to us.”. We’re a dietary-sensitive brand,” said Rettker.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2018

When planning a large-scale marketing push or publicity stunt, it can be easy to overlook the fact that getting attention is hard, and getting positive attention is even harder. And the summer of 2018 has already featured two flashy mass-market promotions that aimed for it, missed and got to watch things go spectacularly awry.

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Boston social media National Marketing 101

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).

Industry 110

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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).

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Industry social media New York City Retail 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

Peloton, for example, took the market by storm with its connected fitness bikes that allow members of the greater community to tap into live classes and pre-recorded content with fellow riders from around the world. Even for firms that were already in that business to start with. Digital Fitness Firms Thriving.

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Exercises Community Boston Industry 141

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cava has around 30 restaurants in the DC, LA, and NYC markets, and its packaged dips and spreads are sold in more than 200 Whole Foods Market stores. MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. sweetgreen. Total Disclosed Funding: $122M. Paper & Tea.

Maine 70

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Mexico and the Philippines — two of the world’s top remittance corridors — are the first two markets out of the gate. However, MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes noted that they can also send that cash to a bank account associated with their Visa-branded debit card or load it onto a Visa-branded prepaid card. million users, up from 9.2

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CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

Whether you call it happy hour, apéro, or aperitivo, the couple of hours right after work and before dinner is a key drinking occasion for major alcohol brands. We used the CB Insights database to identify 56 startups disrupting the happy hour and organized them into 10 categories, from bar tech to hangover cures.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Download the 50-page PDF to explore trends in the US insurance tech ecosystem. ” To date, penetration of telematics in the US auto insurance industry has been slow with estimates of the total number of connected drivers in North America at 5%. ” Which telematics vendors are insurers using? . So, it will happen.”

West Virginia 54

West Virginia Boston US Mobile 54

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Based in New York, the business is now in seven other cities — Boston, Washington, D.C., Mike Russell, CEO of Paintzen, spoke with PYMNTS about the business, where it’s headed and why it’s like no other option in the market. You go online and give us really simple information about your home. What is Paintzen?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

If you can do it better than what’s out there — the whole world can be your market. Instead, watching the market as it unfolded, the teams at both Chase and LevelUp came to realize that mobile payments had to be about providing something that was, indeed, a better mousetrap: a way to pay that would help people save time and money.

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Payments Mobile Innovation Boston 100

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people, particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia, as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO Offered in conjunction with Postmates, the service will be available in the 40 metro markets in which Postmates currently operates. Go Pats!

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Minneapolis Minnesota Philadelphia Boston 101

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Sharon Klapka, Adore Me’s vice president of business and brand development, appeared at the eTail East conference in Boston on Monday (Aug. Since its founding, Adore Me has grown into a business that saw $43 million in sales in 2015 alone, 6.5 million users who visit its website, over 1 million Facebook followers and over $11.5

Data 100

Data Retail Industry Boston 100

PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A and a footprint in roughly 30 cities.

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St. Louis Retail Dallas Mobile 102

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people – particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO PATS!!!!]. Offered in conjunction with Postmates, the service will be available in the 40 metro markets that Postmates operates in.

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Minnesota Philadelphia Boston Minneapolis 100

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. For the past four-plus years, Chesler has guided Glacier through continued growth and successful acquisitions across the West, all while staying true to Glacier’s local market culture. You tell us. 82% to over 2.3%

Fintech 147

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

The Good … The really good news about summer for retailers is that the temperature is their ally — well, at least for those retailers in the Northeast, assuming that it warms back up again in Boston (from 92 to 62 in 24 hours is a bit much …). Check back in with us on Labor Day, when we’ll run all the vital stats for you.

Retail 100

Retail Course United States Boston 100