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Social Media As The ?Ticket? For Contextual Commerce

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Sports fans can’t get enough of their favorite players and teams: Their social media accounts oftentimes have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers. They sold out in 23 minutes — proof that social media channels can be successful mediums for consumer purchases. How does social media play in?

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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept

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Youth-oriented shoe and apparel brand Vans has found the intersection of both, as seen in its most recent store opening this past week in Los Angeles. The latest store, called Forum, opened in Los Angeles on Nov. The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing.

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Instagram Aims To Have Athletes, Teams Sell Products

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But they are also increasingly tapping into the social media platform to sell products as well, The Wall Street Journal reported. Beyond Williams, the social media platform is the primary venue for the Los Angeles Clippers’ social merchandising efforts. Smartphones, in one case, accounted for 35.6

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Nike Sues More Than 1,000 Websites And Other Parties Over Alleged Counterfeiting 

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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.

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Travis Kalanick Disavows ‘Internet Food Court’ Using His Name

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The website appeared along with a press release to reporters earlier this week, promising the digital equivalent of a mall food court and inferring an association with Kalanick’s business in various social media posts and press releases.

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High-End Retailers Block Access To Storefronts In New York

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Stateside, however, boarded up retail locations have showed up on Los Angeles’ Rodeo Drive, Washington’s 14th Street, Chicago’s Magnificent Mile and San Francisco’s Union Square. Users of social media are now putting pictures online of retail hotspots that were once busy quiet and possibly getting ready for civil unrest.

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DoorDash, Amazon Flex Not Altering Driver Payment Structures

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According to a report in The Verge , last week Instacart reversed the pay structures policy after facing backlash on social media and in the press. Citing media reports, The Verge reported that Amazon pays drivers a base pay of between $18 and $25 an hour, with some of the drivers contending that tips are added to that base pay.