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Brands Go Direct To Consumer Online: Now What?

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Bringing a brand directly to consumers over digital channels was an option to consider in the pre-pandemic world — but the question for brands today in our radically digitized world is not if, but when, according to sticky.io Chief Operating Officer Ro Bhatia. Reimagining How Brands Relate To Consumers.

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Yum! Brands Sales Grow 10 Pct Amid Digital Delivery, Kiosk Innovation

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With digital innovation in delivery and click-and-collect in its quick-service restaurants (QSRs), Yum! Brands reported that worldwide system sales excluding foreign currency translation increased 10 percent, with Taco Bell at 13 percent, KFC at 11 percent and Pizza Hut at 7 percent. Pizza Hut U.S., Pizza Hut U.S.

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Taking Digital And D2C Paths To Retail Innovation

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Direct-to-consumer (D2C) hybrid brand Spiceology is on a mission to get chefs and consumers to experiment with flavor, as home cooking has become popular and eateries are beginning to rebound from COVID-19. In merchant innovation, many retailers are in the middle of a journey to digitize operations and bolster sales.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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Why Invisible Will Make 2020’s Payments Innovation Roar

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Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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How Video Games Are Helping Retailers Grow And Innovate

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Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices.

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Path To World Series Brings Changes To Online Gambling

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It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. Payments Innovation.

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