PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Social media site Pinterest has announced a new feature that will allow users to make purchases from a selected number of online shops as it continues to expand and grow, according to a report from CNBC. The feature, called the Pinterest Shop , has hundreds of what the company is calling “Product Pins.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

JD.com , a Chinese eCommerce company, is tapping Google and Walmart to help it expand outside China. Bloomberg , citing an interview with Richard Liu, the head of JD.com , reported Liu is in the initial stages of planning with Google to lure customers outside the country. and Southeast Asia. and Southeast Asia.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Social media image-sharing platform Pinterest is introducing an augmented reality (AR) try-on tool to help users assess and compare eyeshadow. . In October, Pinterest updated product tagging with improved functionality for retailers to tag their own scene images with specific products. 22) press release.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“The direct-to-consumer movement will be the replacement for the retail issues and commerce issues that are going on because of the platforms,” said Armstrong, who founded a DTC company with the aim of changing how people shop online. Armstrong is the former CEO of AOL and used to run Google ads.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2020

The IAB said effects are being felt across ad-supported websites, “as well as companies that provide technical infrastructure to support selling ads” such as network services, brand safety and attribution services. The wild card here is the amount of small businesses that feed the revenue of ad words and social platforms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

The social media company has indicated that the Access Act, a proposed data portability law, is a first move in the right direction. Facebook first let American and Canadian users move their videos and pictures to Google Photos in April. DCN, a trade organization, serves media brands.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

For a large segment of social media users, commerce may be getting a lot more contextual, as Instagram has launched a checkout feature designed to help the platform become a more attractive place for consumers to shop. “Instagram is a place for people to treat themselves with inspiration, not a place to tax themselves with errands.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

“How about waking up in the morning and asking Google Home or Amazon Alexa, or your mobile phone if you’re on the go, ‘Hey Google, hey Amazon, what are my deals for the day?’” Successful retailers, for example, can provide discounts for consumers to come into the store at a certain time of day. A New Generation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

Like the Chefling app, these devices sometimes interface with voice-activated assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, and have the potential to save consumers from encountering expiring food and to inform brands on which products consumers are bringing home from the grocery store.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They feel the threat of Amazon and other retail giants moving into their space, and they want to fight back. The problem is: While there’s a lot healthcare can learn from retail, it’s also true that much about retail doesn’t work in healthcare. It’s the Google experience. It’s the social media or TurboTax experience.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2017

Reveal Mobile, a leading innovator in monetizing location-based audience data, announced the launch of Social Direct, a platform that enables advertising agencies, retailers and brands to leverage location-based audience data for highly targeted social media campaigns.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

7) as the Ikea brand continues to shift itself to digital, according to published reports. Of course, it’s not surprising that a retailer looking to focus on digital is exiting print. That beats 2 percent for mobile, 1 percent for email, 1 percent for social media and 0.2 Do catalogs work for every brand?

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As social media platforms tinker with their algorithms, marketing experts say one trend is clear: Paid social campaigns are becoming increasingly necessary to cut through the noise and reach customers. Social media has made it easier for community banks to nurture connections with prospects, customers and the community.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

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, Amazon might be the biggest channel, but many of PingPong’s customers also use other outlets like Google Shopping , Walmart or Shopify. “A

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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. Think Google Search/Chrome, not Google’s YouTube. That year, P&G’s ad spend totaled $7.1 He didn’t have to.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo rolled out shopping chatbot Uniqlo IQ on Thursday (August 2), which acts as a digital concierge service. As retail moves deeper into the digital realm, shopping needs to be not just portable and perpetual, but personal as well. billion hours by 2023 in those three sectors.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The latest earnings reports from Big Tech giants and social media platforms show that advertising spend is through the roof at present, after basically falling off the roof earlier this year. Google parent Alphabet Inc. What exactly is playing out is a bit of a poser, but the news itself points to something big.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Apparently taking a page from Google’s book – going forward Pinterest will allow retailers and brands to bid on its ad inventory in auctions.

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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. eCommerce is constantly evolving, and brands need technologies that allow them to stay current and competitive.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

With a field of competitors that includes Pinterest, Target, ASOS and Google, the category is driving consumer adoption and shopping at a rate that has led key executives to rename the business “visual commerce.”. Retailers are starting to tap into the camera,” said Ted Mann, CEO of visual search technology provider Slyce.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. Sofi has built strong engagement through its Richer Lives social media strategy and influencer Vivian, “your rich BFF.”

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Looking ahead.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Native commerce is where Aberman believes all platforms are headed — and that’s not just true for software developers like Apple, Google and Microsoft, but also for social media platforms like Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. “In The Media/Commerce Connection. That’s what Rich Aberman, co-founder of WePay , predicts.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Facebook is getting big, and we don’t just mean popular: the social media giant has gotten bigger than its britches in more places than one, with new offices cropping up across the U.S. Google, for instance, has its Midwest headquarters in the former Fulton Market Cold Storage building. Chicago, Illinois. Menlo Park, California.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

is putting more of its hopes into digital and mobile channels — and online culture — to expand revenue and its brand profile, and make up for declining wholesale sales. The success of that ongoing effort could provide lessons or warning for other venerable clothing brands as consumers of all types increasing use the web to buy apparel.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Companies like Google , LinkedIn and Box use these tools to show users how far along they are in a set of tasks — say, filling out a form at checkout. It allows customers to pull in credit card, billing, and shipping info they’ve stored on the social media sites. Ecwid is a platform,” Facebook’s Mary Ku told TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Branded as “The Black Market” (Hormel brands its bacon as “black-label”), users can access the experience on their computer. However, for the full interactive experience, they’ll need an iPhone or Android and a Google Cardboard VR viewer. Will this VR tactic work out for Hormel?

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MARCH 10, 2020

But, at least early anecdotal evidence from social media says otherwise. “A Anecdotal evidence rolling into PYMNTS tells the tale of online retailers, particularly those pushing big ticket luxury items, also pushing big rewards for orders, like $500 rebates on certain (admittedly quite large) purchases.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

And an estimated 86 percent of the scams were shared via social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Mastercard and Google Fend Off Fines. That, in turn, has led to increased prices levied on retailers and consumers. s Google was hit with a $57 million fine Monday (Jan. Alphabet Inc.’s

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Social media has a basic business model problem. It is good at drawing in eyeballs, but turning eyeballs into dollars isn’t always so easy — unless one has a truly unfathomable number of eyeballs to call a base (like Google or Facebook) so as to make advertising an extremely lucrative enterprise.

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MARCH 6, 2020

We don’t search, we Google. For the students who don’t win, that $40 can be used as discounts at local retailers. Rizvi believes this model will be just as powerful, as retailers have a chance to apply discounts above and beyond current means such as Groupon. We don’t shop at Amazon , we one-click.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retailers have an opportunity to surprise and delight shoppers with digital, connected and omnichannel experiences in the physical store, but many are struggling to make that opportunity pay off. Every brand is vying for attention with video and direct-to-consumer digital media. AR Best Practices.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

After 2008, pop-ups were largely used as a cost-cutting effort by small, independent retailers unsure about opening a permanent location in the wake of the recession. Unlike the box stores and chains who dominated the retail industry for decades, pop-ups offer a more personal, unique and fun experience to customers.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

The rollout was finalized in July, and it dovetails with an initiative to boost traffic through the Curated by Kohl’s, showcasing (at 50 stores) a rotating set of brands through concurrent digital and in-store efforts. The moves to spur foot traffic come as the U.S. consumer is still relatively strong, even the face of a lingering trade war.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Indeed, as Webster pointed out, the most transformative innovations in payments and commerce over the last decade are mostly the result of innovators making what was once visible, invisible: payments, stores, merchants, brands, issuers, even card networks. What the Consumer Wants.

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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.

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