PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The social media-focused platform company’s business model is simple: it’s a retail destination for consumers looking to sell their second-hand apparel and other goods or pick up desirable designer items for fraction of the price. Unique to Poshmark are social media aspects like the ability to share “likes” on favored items. “We

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2019

Social media giant Facebook is developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered voice assistant in the vein of Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri, according to reports. Competition in the voice assistant market is intense. Amazon has 67 percent of the market and Google has 30 percent, according to eMarketer. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Venture capitalists are funding new entrants to the field, and features like authenticity guarantees, postings to social media, the use of data and post-sale services could propel the industry forward, according to a new report from Fung Global Retail & Tech. Smaller firms are growing quickly and making gains in the market.

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JUNE 8, 2017

And those types of concerns have led to questions in the week since the viral marketing stunt as to whether or not it is fair or appropriate of Lush to ask its retail employees to actually come to work nude in service of a corporate cause. Also, edgy marketing campaigns are part of the Lush experience.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

Chubbies takes its customer community seriously, and it makes it very clear that this is well beyond a marketing ploy. Though they entered the working world to take on tech, retail and finance, the passion never died and by 2011 they were ready to start living the dream. Chubbies is among the latter. As a result, the 5.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

Now while Facebook initially launched its Messenger chat service in 2011, it wasn’t a major hit right away and the social media giant continued to refine its offering. One surprising industry that’s entering this market is insurance. Cambridge, Mass.–based

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Founded in 2011 by Harald Seiz, the firm offered online purchases of “cryptonyzed gold” tokens, offering customers a commission to sign up other “affiliates.” Department of Justice announced that two Massachusetts men were arrested and charged with conducting a scheme to take over victims’ social media accounts and steal their cryptocurrency.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

Apple Again Trying Social Media Apps. While Snapchat is popular among Millennials, Facebook is steadfastly a Baby-Boomer favorite , so it looks like Apple is maximizing target market opportunity. Another case maker, Hard Candy, made steel moldings based on leaked models of the iPhone 5 in 2011.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

In 2011, Newegg launched a marketplace model where other sellers accessed its eCommerce platform. It functions as both an omnichannel contact center solution for suppliers as well as a social media monitoring service. The company followed the D2C announcement with the debut of another new service last week called Newegg Bridge.

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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. Disclosure of sponsored content isn’t difficult. So, what’s the big deal?

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The digital marketing research firm Conversion in Toronto conducted the study. “At Chris Lorence, ICBA’s chief marketing officer. This is not a blip, not something we can ignore,” says Chris Lorence, ICBA’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer. “At Social media—with privacy, please.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

And yet, Blaze Pizza , founded by Elise and Rick Wetzel in 2011 has managed to do so. From the very first restaurants we opened, we had this vision that we were going to grow it to a thousand,” Elise Wetzel, the company’s chief marketing officer, told INC.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

As retail pushes further into online spaces, many marketers and merchants alike are focused on clicks and open rates to measure the success of campaigns and consumer outreach, said Matt Williamson, cofounder and CEO of Windsor Circle. With its Predictive Lifecycle and Marketing Platform, the Durham, N.C.-based

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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. Festival and club clothes comprised a rather niche market in 2011 when the brand first began advertising their products.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

StyleSeat Founder Melody McCloskey knew she had a good idea when she launched StyleSeat in 2011, because the concept seemed so intuitive. The platform’s features include management of scheduling, client notes, social media, email marketing promotion and payment services like credit card acceptance or direct daily payouts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

If you look at the top 25 or 50 artists of any kind on almost any social media platform – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter – you see that half are musicians. , but the truth is that music – and the musicians and bands who make it – stir a kind of dogged loyalty that most brands would love to have. “If

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Kaepernick’s relationship with Nike is not new, as he has been a client since 2011. Judging by the balance of social media posts and media coverage, it seems safe to assume that on Tuesday, the world was a bit more interested in Colin Kaepernick and Nike than in Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

This rapidly growing market is expected to be worth $11 billion by 2024 , especially as municipalities push vehicle ownership alternatives to ease congested roadways and help residents save money. The carsharing model carries risks for vehicle owners, however, who must be able to trust potential renters even though they haven’t met them.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The digital marketing research firm Conversion in Toronto conducted the study. “At Chris Lorence, ICBA’s chief marketing officer. This is not a blip, not something we can ignore,” says Chris Lorence, ICBA’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer. “At Social media—with privacy, please.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Founded in 2011, Captify, like many of the firms we profile, was created to solve a problem — Google was destroying the traditional advertising industry. Their CEO said the only place to go is “the next level,” which means applying search intelligence where it hasn’t been used before — TV, social media and virtual reality.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

The first recorded case of it dates back to the 1760s when Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, producers of pottery and chinaware, marketed their wares with endorsements from Britain’s royal family, hoping to show off the company’s inherent value and the high quality of their products. Celebrity brand endorsement is nothing new.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Today, Instagram is one of the more popular social media platforms. Owned by Facebook, the image- and video-sharing service is worth an estimated $100B, boasts 1 billion users, and has spawned a new class of marketing careers for savvy users. His company, Tiny Speck, began developing a game called Glitch.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Rockland Trust launched mobile banking and mobile deposit options in 2011, taking an early lead over many of its largest competitors. The bank also energetically markets to and interacts with customers through social media, and it was named this year as one of ICBA’s leading member community banks in social media.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The move marks Ocado’s first official foray into the American market, and the firm’s fourth international deal overall. market, though Ocado plans to have talks with other U.S.-based Launched in 2011, the company raised around $15 million. ride-hailing market, up from 20 percent just a year-and-a-half ago. million. “The

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MAY 6, 2019

After all, the card guys are nowhere in developing markets, and Facebook has a third of the world’s population in its network. But it was the same concept: ditching fiat currency for Facebook-branded virtual currency to make in-app purchases on the social media platform. Social gaming. billion of which came from the U.S.

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JUNE 17, 2016

market do not have: the need for offline authorization. Overall, this subset of the SMB market, some 3.4 Synchrony sent the market into a tail spin when it issued guidance that suggested that there would be a 20 to 30 basis point increase in credit losses from these products. but since we have a Zero Floor limit in the U.S.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Pets.com catapulted into the American consciousness via an all-out marketing blitz that included appearances at the 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the 2000 Super Bowl. Launched in February 1999, Pets.com sought to capitalize on widespread internet access and a $23B pet supplies market by selling products directly to consumers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

I would say around 2010, 2011, 2012, with Apple having mobile payments acceptance in stores, checking out on mobile devices, that’s where we saw transactions become much more personal,” Dasilva said of in-store retail experiences. And, you can use that data to find out what they’re going to like and market to them.”.

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Social Assurance

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Though it’s now primarily used as a music and culture site, Myspace was one of the first social media networks that allowed personal profiles. 2010: Instagram launches as a photo and video-sharing social media network. 2011: Snapchat, a multimedia messaging app , was launched.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We have been on a journey in Saudi since 2011, to grow lending and increase financial inclusion through the adoption of advanced risk assessment tools,” said Swaied Alzahrani, CEO of SIMAH. You can read more about this story in the full media release. Analytics Tailored To The Market. See all Posts. chevron_left Blog Home.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Declared Bankruptcy: 2011. By December 2011, it was under $30/kg. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart. After evaluating the vehicle, the EPA gave The Coda a fuel economy equivalence of 73 miles per gallon, the highest of any electric vehicle on the market in 2012. Dart Music. Founded: 2005.

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FICO

MAY 15, 2023

As happy long-term users and believers in FICO’s intelligent collections technology, we wanted to be early adopters and create a customer experience that had rarely been delivered in the market.” You can read more about this story in the full media release. Nikhil Behl Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for FICO.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Peltz and P&G collectively spent over $100M on marketing to bring investors to their sides. Chobani became the top-selling yogurt in the US in 2011 , only four years after its launch. Low-calorie ice cream startup Halo Top , founded in 2011, became the best-selling pint of ice cream in the US in 2017.

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Social Assurance

JUNE 21, 2021

– Social Assurance, a software and marketing solutions leader in the financial services industry, has announced that Jaime Falkner, CFMP, has joined its team as their Client Growth Manager. After sitting in the seat of the bank marketing director, I find so much joy to be a strategic partner with those bank marketers.

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Social Assurance

JANUARY 31, 2020

What made you want to start a company like Social Assurance? At the 2011 Big Omaha event — a technology and entrepreneurial conference — I met Matt Secoske and we collaborated over coffee. At that meeting I proposed the Social Assurance idea to him and the rest is history. “ What do you like most about your job? .

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In addition to the funding, Mundi will provide due diligence support and will offer Qumram access to corporate executives, new markets, and new customers via the Mundi Club, a global network of 500+ Spanish business leaders. Qumram has already gained great traction in the US. The post Qumram’s Regtech Offering Lands $1.49

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). If you had invested $100 in bitcoin in 2011 that bitcoin would be worth over $2.5M Blockchain. Cryptocurrencies. Initial coin offerings. Is bitcoin a bubble?

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