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Popular Millennial Site Bleacher Report Dives Deep Into Sports Betting

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Bleacher Report, a millennial-focused sports website, has been steadily expanding into the sports betting space, attracting a new generation of gamblers who don’t consider sports gambling a bad thing, according to a report by CNBC. Because we have an app that has almost 20 million downloads, 9.5

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NEW DATA: Relevance Test: Majority Of Consumers Find Bank Web Content Lacking

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Forty-two percent of respondents report using mobile apps as their main source for financial education, and 36 percent report using social media to learn about financial products. Rich media content such as on-demand video, meanwhile, is an appealing tool for accessing relevant, targeted information for nearly half of consumers.

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Mobile Ordering, The New Window To Winning Over Millennial Consumers

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It seems that most every industry these days is vying for millennial dollars and devotion. For an industry where millennials are projected to spend nearly $800 billion in 2017 (that’s 7 percent more on monthly food budgets than average Americans), restaurants are hankering to pull out all the stops to get millennials to order — in or out.

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Mobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts

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One way that banks or ambitious social media platforms will win this combat for customers is through the use of mobile credit and debit cards, with a highly configurable nature and full range of card and spend management controls to please the most vacillating of customers. What is changing are the card habits of demographic groups.

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Fighting Financial Awkwardness With Faster Payments?

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Be it an Uber ride, a music or video download or access to banking services, consumers expect instant gratification. The peer-to-peer mobile payment service offers a social media element aimed at making the exchange of money more fun for both sides of the transaction.

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Facebook Tests Messenger Platform For High School Students

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As Facebook tries to bring post-millennials onto its platform, the social media network appears to be at work on a feature geared toward high school students. The mobile app can be downloaded on a tablet or smartphone, activated and then controlled through a parent’s account.

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Mobile Banking and Millennials – Will the Love Last?

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A lot of fuss is made over millennials and their proclivities toward things being easy. So, when it comes to something like digital banking , it’s not so much about finding what’s easy as it is about finding what service best meets millennials’ needs. Millennials to big banks: No thanks ….