PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

That’s why marketers will be leveraging mobile in their holiday shopping strategies this year, with new and creative strategies that focus more on omnichannel solutions and less on generic mobile coupons. Other promotional tactics planned include branded apps, which 20 percent of CMOs say they will use.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

An Indonesian startup that provides consumer brands with omnichannel marketing and sales products, including cash-back rewards, has raised $3 million in a Series A-2 funding round, according to a report by TechCrunch. The company was started in 2016 by Budiman and CTO Ari Suwendi.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Borrowing from the strategy of fast food restaurants, Dine Brands is working on a new order-ahead technology. It’s like converting casual dining to fast food,” Dine Brands CEO Stephen Joyce told The Post. interactive kiosk market was worth $717 million in 2016, the most recent year for which data was available.

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JULY 21, 2017

Really easy to work with, the company is the chosen system for many other innovative companies including Kickstarter and Apple Pay, and valued at almost $10 billion by the end of 2016. These companies have names like Zopa, Smartypig, Nutmeg, etoro and have fun branding and cool offices. Not bad for a six-year-old start-up.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Digitally native mattress and home goods brand platform Resident landed a $130 million investment headed up by Nexus Capital Management and Ion Crossover Partners with participation from Baron Capital Group in Q4 of 2020, according to a Thursday (Jan. 7) announcement.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are putting a new spin on athleisure wear , inspired by the CBD-based wellness trend. sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016. In restaurant technology, cloud kitchens have emerged as a new model driven by the rise of online ordering. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Walmart is positioning its new line, called Free Assembly, as “a modern fashion brand with elevated style,” featuring casual looks with layered approaches that will make it marketable during any season. Denise Incandela , who was once SVP Women’s Group, has now added “elevated and online brands” to her title. The Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

A study by Dotcom Distribution, a logistics and fulfillment firm, found that close to 90 percent of online shoppers consider delivery times central to their decision to shop with an eCommerce brand in the future. In 2015, 60 percent claimed that brand packaging affected their perceptions versus 68 percent in 2016.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

Amazon.com Head of Beauty for Private Brands Kara Trousdale said in the announcement, “Our goal is to help customers spend less time and money searching for the right skincare solutions.” The size of the global beauty and personal care products market will reach $716.6 As it stands, beauty is a big and booming worldwide business.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Vitamins may be a massive market in the U.S., A little under two years after that project was initiated, Ritual’s first product — a multivitamin for women — was released in late 2016. There is no shortage of vitamin brands on the market. For first-time shoppers, buying vitamins can be a little overwhelming.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

Launching in October in two key markets, Mexico and the Philippines, MoneyGram will expand its options in which receivers from those markets may receive and use funds instantly — via their bank-issued Visa-branded debit card or Visa-branded prepaid card — and senders may choose the option by which to send those funds.

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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. I think we can do 1 million with the proper marketing.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two famous North American-based quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands are preparing to duke it out in China for chicken-meal supremacy, the most recent sign of how Western brands are trying to increase their footholds in that massive country. The news comes as more Western brands – including those based in the U.S. –

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

A new study by Marketplace Pulse showed that Amazon-owned private-label brands aren’t as successful as many think, according to a report in Bloomberg. The New York-based eCommerce research firm found shoppers aren’t any more inclined to buy the Amazon brands , even when the company highlights them in search results. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands drove into the pandemic and adapted to it to catch the digital shift. These are the brands that have either created new product categories, new business models or pivots on their previous business models. Adore Me, for example, was a thriving eCommerce brand before the pandemic. D2C Explodes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

consumers a low-cost, digital-only bank that will directly compete with Goldman Sachs ‘s Marcus brand. We expect to have that in the market next year.”. For its part, Marcus has issued $3 billion in new consumer loans since launching in October of 2016, through the first quarter of 2018. Barclays is ready to offer U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Marking the sixteenth consecutive quarter of declines in the tablet market, the third quarter experienced an 8.6 When it comes to brands of tablets, Apple stayed in the lead. percent fall on a year-over-year basis. million tablets shipped globally in the third quarter of 2017, only 36.4 Amazon and Samsung were also in the top three.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

Everpeaks, which was founded in 2016, stated in the release that the new offering’s value proposition comes from “eliminating multiple layers of traditional retail operations and market barriers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The brands pay to bid on those ads, and HookLogic splits the revenue for the ads with both the eCommerce site and the brand. “We We are thrilled to join the Criteo team, who share our passion for transparent, accountable and relevant marketing,” Jonathan Opdyke, CEO of HookLogic, said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The times they are a changin’ — as the People’s Bank of China has ordered local banks to stop issuing co-branded (bearing both the logo of UnionPay and a foreign card network), dual currency payment cards in mainland China, according to reports emerging this morning. As of 2016, UnionPay has invested billions of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Brands that will be featured include Champion, Jordache, Kendall + Kylie and Walmart private label brands, including Free Assembly, Scoop and Sofia Jeans. Livestreaming for marketers is no longer a novelty — live video is changing the way brands interact with their audiences,” New York based video platform Vimeo said.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge explains that voice search may not be as big as you think it is. ? ? ?. Google I/O 2016 – Keynote. I think it’s a cool thing and a developing opportunity that a lot of brands should be pursuing. award-winning?Here’s Subscribe to Here’s Why.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The firm launched in 2016 with three products — natural deodorant, moisturizer and solid face wash — all sold online, direct-to-consumer. While two women starting a beauty and wellness brand has not been unheard of in the last decade, Duchnowski and Cox have raised some eyebrows since founding the firm.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

eCommerce business president and chief executive officer, said the merchant is dedicated to providing shoppers with an attractive assortment of online goods, and, for that reason, it bought brands such as Bonobos, CNBC reported. It purchased Jet.com in 2016 for $3.3 Marc Lore, who is Walmart’s U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2020

Apple said in its most recent earnings report that its services top line was up almost 15 percent year over year, and had met (ahead of schedule) its stated target (outlined back in 2016) of doubling this revenue stream by the close of 2020. Paid accounts, up 30 percent year on year, stand at 550 million. showed, 45 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Launched in early 2016, Moteefe began in 2016 and provides an entrepreneurial technology solution for influencers and others in the digital space. Moteefe has built its own proprietary production software and plans to use the additional funding for expanding into new markets, including Australia.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

SAFE has been delivering on-demand experiences since 2016, when it launched a targeted marketing function on its mobile app. SAFE leverages a targeted marketing tool with geofencing , messaging capabilities and push notifications to provide tailored promotional experiences. Meeting Members Where They Are With Promotions .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Domio , a startup that designs and rents apartment hotels, has raised $100 million in funding to expand both nationally and globally to 25 markets by 2020, according to reports on Tuesday (Dec. It is currently in 12 markets. The company’s Series B round was led by GGV Capital. The funding round closed in late summer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

Reuters reports this is the latest initiative by the eCommerce giant to broaden its reach in a key growth market. In addition, Medlife, Netmeds, Temasek-backed PharmEasy and Sequoia Capital-backed 1mg.com compete for sales in the pill market. In June, PYMNTS reported India’s West Bengal State Beverages Corp.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mastercard , like most consumer credit connected brands, was hit hard in the early days of the Great Recession. He has served as Mastercard’s Chief Product Officer since 2016 and has headed the network’s new products and innovation team since 2018.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It started when Founder Stephen Lease was training for a marathon in 2016. Market research showed that goodr needed to upgrade its photography and add virtual try-on, which was the No. Another example of AR working in a retail application can be seen at the direct-to-consumer (D2C) sunglasses retailer goodr.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

According to some estimates , the size of the global beauty and personal care products market will hit $716.6 But the marketplace is changing – particularly as social media-savvy DTC players have entered the market and attracted large and dedicated consumer bases. The brand has 65,000 Instagram followers. billion euros ($2.5

Branding 125

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

As telecoms move to digital ecosystems and embed mobile payments, the idea is that demonetization efforts — which stretch back to 2016 — would be more firmly entrenched. UPI , of course, has been gaining traction, as the real-time payments system recently processed more than 1.25

Mobile 130

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This reverses the previous year’s trend, between 2016 and 2017, when sub-prime loan originations across categories fell by 7.1 In 2016, the market experienced a pullback as lenders slowed or stalled sub-prime originations,” Komos said. It shows the resiliency of the market.”. 30 was the biggest jump since 2016.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

and select European markets — undertakings that will see hiring accelerate at the company. TechCrunch reported that in just a few years after its 2015 founding as a direct-to-consumer women’s brand, NA-KD has said that it is among the most quoted brands on Instagram in Sweden and Germany.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

The global contactless payment market is projected to reach $18 billion by 2025, in fact, up from $10 billion last year — a nearly 12 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Affinity Federal Credit Union is one such CU that began upgrading its systems in 2016 as the New Jersey-based CU began its evolution to an automated service model.

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Insights on Business

APRIL 6, 2017

As Jim Marous notes in his article, Top 10 Retail Banking Trends and Predictions for 2017 , “APIs were not even listed as a 2016 trend, but was #4 in 2017.”. One of the new APIs from IBM is Cognitive Market Sensing. The sky’s the limit and IBM is inviting us to push the boundaries of what’s been tried before.

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