PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

“So it’s no surprise that Instagram is making moves to replicate TikTok’s most popular features — especially in areas where TikTok hasn’t already amassed a strong foothold, like Brazil,” says social media fan site Later. “In In practice, that means turning customers into influencers via a social selling technology platform.

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Social Assurance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The most professional social media site has evolved to meet its users’ needs and the difference could surprise you. It may be time to rethink what you know and learn how your financial brand can capitalize on these upcoming trends. Don’t forget to catch our webinar about the State of Social Media 2020.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

If one were to make a list of products for a cutting-edge fashion brand aimed at capturing the emerging Generation Z market, it is safe to assume that “foxtail keychains” would not make the top 10. And they are looking to expand – fresh off a $40 million infusion of funds, care of a Series B round from Sequoia Capital.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2021

Wall Street is readying itself for yet another week of chaos on the markets involving the pumping-up of stocks like GameStop and AMC , Reuters writes, with it now likely to spread to other stocks. Melvin Capital did receive an infusion of fresh cash from investors in the final days of January.

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Social Assurance

JANUARY 11, 2021

As financial marketers finalize their 2021 marketing plans, the focus for the the new year will center on executing new organizational goals, addressing changing consumer demands and behaviors and learning and experimenting with new marketing channels and tactics in evolving their marketing strategy. Facebook Pay.

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Social Assurance

JANUARY 11, 2021

As financial marketers finalize their 2021 marketing plans, the focus for the the new year will center on executing new organizational goals, addressing changing consumer demands and behaviors and learning and experimenting with new marketing channels and tactics in evolving their marketing strategy. Facebook Pay.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 23, 2016

This week we’ve kept an eye on Capital One’s March 14th relaunch of #RoadToOne hashtag, the bank’s proprietary handle on its sponsorship for NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament. million, CapOne’s branding is clearly winning more followers than a bank would otherwise expect.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2019

Facebook announced partnerships with an array of venture capital funds as part of its VC Brand Incubator initiative, which is reportedly the first in a series of programs the social media and technology conglomerate has launched in India to support small businesses. Founder Manu Chandra in another statement.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 19, 2023

In this article, we will look at deposit performance data related to high balances and show how banks can dramatically increase value by restructuring relationship-based products and better-allocating marketing/sales dollars more efficiently. This is over three times the life of a money market account that is over $1mm in balances.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

With the recent global explosion in skincare and wellness products, there are all kinds of stories of how various entrepreneurs wound their way into the market. 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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Nike is suing 589 websites, the owners of 676 social media accounts and more than 100 unidentified companies and individuals for allegedly selling counterfeit versions of its Nike and Converse shoes online. Nike wrote in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Taking a Hard Line Against Alleged Counterfeits .

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Banking leaders looking for the next wave of growth need to think differently about marketing to half the population. Traditional financial institutions that want to compete with fintech disruptors like Chime and X (formerly known as Twitter) need to up their social media game. hours per day on social media.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

3D printing enables new shape possibilities that cannot be made by other techniques,” Patricia Cas Medina, global brand manager, told FoodIngredientsFirst. A recent Barry Callebaut research study showed that 70 percent of consumers want to try innovative chocolate experiences, and 60 percent want to share them on social media.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

BigCommerce , the eCommerce platform for retailing brands, announced news on Wednesday (April 25) that it has closed a $64 million round of funding. In a press release , the company said the fundraising round was led by Goldman Sachs and included participation from current investors General Catalyst, GGV Capital and Tenaya Capital.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In a brand new PYMNTS interview , Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo , makes the case that his search engine can win over a decent number of consumers. DuckDuckGo does not track consumers’ browsing histories, nor does it sell consumer data to third parties for the purposes of ad targeting and precision marketing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

sellers to seek toeholds outside of America, taking advantage of an opportunity to boost business in markets with less competition. But while cross-border barriers have come down, brand-building is still challenging. Consumer trends and their shopping habits are driven very heavily by social media,” Tsang said. “So,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

In the new Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS examines how startups are competing with legacy brands, social media services and even eCommerce companies that want to add financial capabilities to their platforms. Deep Dive: Challenger Banks Versus Legacy-Backed Digital Brands. Around the Digital Banking World.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

How influential will mobile and social media be to their purchasing habits? You’re starting to see this more and more now with a lot of successful brands and retailers as they grow out or place more emphasis on omnichannel. But what is that “changing face of retail” actually going to look like in a few years?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The digital-first shift means there are more options for smaller, direct-to-consumer brands, to find first-time customers from around the country or even the world. Here’s how some really creative D2C brands are using new tech to do that. Capitalizing On Direct To Consumer. But Sticky.io 13-14 Amazon Prime Day.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company has raised a total of $288 million in funding from venture capital and private equity backers, including Great Hill Partners, Greycroft, PWP Growth Equity, Sandbridge Capital, Industry Ventures and Canaan. Luxury retail is also getting more social, especially in China. Indeed, in its recent U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

This year we expect another year of market-leading growth. Noting that existing Carvana markets grew by 84 percent, he said, “The company’s four oldest markets each more than three years old grew by 50 percent and our oldest cohort of Atlanta grew by 18 percent. New Markets. In 2019, we increased GPU by $750.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Toys will be featured at the front of the shop, while the back will be an “experiential” area where visitors can take photos to share on social media. Freeman, senior managing director at GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, recently said. Toys R Us had over 700 locations in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. “As The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., billion in 2013, representing a 2.10

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. We want to make them even bigger superfans of the brand. If anything, at Coachella, this is where effective branding and timely marketing interventions come to together in perfect harmony.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In the mad dash for small firms to secure capital, many sought their PPP loans from banks other than their usual financial service providers, creating a logistical nightmare for financial institutions (FIs) that still rely on manual and outdated customer onboarding workflows. When the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Product placement, sponsored content and influencer marketing are hardly new phenomena as the advertising world works nonstop to keep pace with the internet. Consider Spotify’s branded playlists or Alibaba recruiting its APASS members for marketing purposes. But not every brand plays that way. So, what’s the big deal?

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Our Annual Marketing and Compliance Survey and Report sought to better understand how some of these changes affected the financial services industry and how community financial institutions responded to the challenges. For more in-depth insights, be sure to download our marketing and compliance report by clicking the link below.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

So Drop decided to do things differently by linking the rewards to the payment method instead of the brand itself. . The idea behind drop is to build a system that actually works for consumers and create a rewards-based marketing channel for brands and retailers that actually makes sense and achieves what it is supposed to.

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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. Unlike her competitor for the title of Generations X’s Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Teigen has built a brand around being accessibly aspirational.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Beyond New York, the retailer is planning to extend that experiential approach to partner locations, “offering the world that one-of-a-kind toy retail experience the brand is known for,” according to an announcement from the company, which is owned by ThreeSixty Brands. In Other Brick and Mortar News. percent stake in Starbucks.

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Payments Source

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

and foreign brands, retail companies planning to participate in this year’s holiday sales in China should consider capitalizing on China’s huge holiday sales by adopting mobile pay and influencer marketing and by emphasizing quality and authenticity, according to Franklin Chu, managing director for Azoya USA.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

That seems to be the point of most of KFC’s bizarre fast food marketing ploys. They’re strange enough to grab eyes on social media newsfeeds, giving the brand viral attention. That’s exactly why KFC’s crazy marketing strategies actually aren’t crazy at all — more like genius. The moral of the story?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

That sense of purpose, paired with a savvy presence on social media, brought the business a large and devoted following — and has seen the firm expand from shoes to other environmentally sound and charitably oriented accessories like bags, hats and sunglasses. Social Entrepreneurship Done Right.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The rare social media sensation who managed to parlay those eyeballs into spend from her watchers, Pham has since moved on from the firm she co-founded — at least, sort of. In October, Pham announced that her company, Divinium Labs, would be acquiring EM cosmetics — an online brand heretofore owned by Ipsy. In 2015, Ipsy had 1.5

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Social Assurance

JUNE 3, 2021

If you haven’t already added LinkedIn as part of your social media strategy mix, your financial brand is missing out on a valuable platform to connect with customers and prospects. LinkedIn continues to grow as a social platform, and its offerings are expanding. Employees can be your biggest advocates for your brand.

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