PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact. population.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

More eye-opening still is the fact that 23 million consumers made purchases using voice assistants, including Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home. The heaviest users of voice commerce are the bridge millennials, the older of that generational group, with more disposable income and high levels of technological fluency.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

According to Venmo’s Head of Marketing, Kasia Leyden, the idea is to put users’ stories front and center, making the money transfer company the only brand that can fill the blank in whatever occasion they’re sharing. It’s called the “Blank Me” campaign. Bikinis can’t hold wallets,” reads a billboard in Miami. “ _ for drinks instead.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

Baby Boomers practically grew up on the stuff — and the games on the side of the boxes — but, true to form, their millennial counterparts have different plans. At least, that’s the case for the 40 percent of millennials who said eating a bowl of cereal is just too much work that early in the morning. So said Mintel’s U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Shoppers can start a purchase in stores by selecting the card icon in the Afterpay mobile program, which activates the Afterpay card that can be used for purchases via Google Pay or Apple Pay. Millennial and Gen Z shoppers are focusing on sustainable and ethical fashion and retail more than before.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While the media often portrays millennials as preoccupied with the rising prices of festival tickets and avocado toast, their real financial concerns are a bit more practical. But millennials face significant headwinds in making those financial dreams a reality. get the REPORT on next generation investors. From big banks to big tech.

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NCR

MAY 20, 2016

Articles via PaymentsSource, The Financial Brand, CB Insights. 7 of Google’s Cutting-Edge Plans for Payments: Google revealed a dizzying number of projects at this year’s Google I/O event – here’s a roundup of the top 7 you should know about. Millions of Americans regret not saving for retirement earlier.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Looking ahead.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Google confirmed that it will partner with Citi and Stanford Federal Credit Union to launch a checking account linked to Google Pay sometime next year. Cache, reportedly the project’s code name, is described by Google as a “smart” DDA. Google’s Everyday App Opportunity. It was the gasp heard ‘round the world last week.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Retailers and payment professionals may think this problem affects only luxury brands, but customers can and do abandon even inexpensive purchases if they no longer feel financially secure. Brands in Australia, the U.K. BNPL Offerings’ Popularity Among Millennials . and the U.S.

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NCR

MARCH 4, 2016

Articles via The Financial Brand, TechCrunch, Forbes.com. It’s Time To Stop Treating Millennials as a Single Segment: A new study shows that the differences between the sub-segments of Millennials are so large, that it is doesn’t help for companies to treat them all as a single segment.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Bridge millennials own slightly more devices than the average consumer in our study: six devices compared to the roughly five that most consumers own. This group of 60 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

The verdict’s also out on whether Alphabet’s invigoration of its brand safety controls will have any lasting or significant impact. First introduced via limited tests in Google News for U.S. users back in October of last year, Google recently rolled out fact-checking capabilities to its global user base across Search.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

An endorsement from the Kardashian media empire is a big deal for any up-and-coming brand. However, for a brand like Afterpay, which launched in the U.S. Millennials were still a pretty small percentage of retail spend in 2015,” Molnar said. The number-one spot will likely be hard to nab, as it is presently held by Google.

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Articles via Banking Exchange, The Financial Brand ,Wall Street Journal and BankThink. Spotlight Apple Pay banking innovation looppay millennials mobile payments payments samsung technology' Below are interesting stories the Banking.com staff has been reading over the past week. What have you been reading?

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Here are examples of how some organizations have made use of social media to achieve results: Increased brand awareness – Chime consistently posts a variety of content, and its Instagram profile, with the brand’s signature green theme and modern imagery, has amassed more than 933K followers. Yes, that’s a lot of Benjamins.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Almost half – 43 percent of high-income millennials – said they would be more likely to visit a gas station if its app offered them convenience, loyalty and savings, according to the PYMNTS Paying At The Pump report. In a June interview with PYMNTS, GasBuddy CEO Sarah McCrary explained that customers rarely shop by brand.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 10, 2024

Long-term fixed-rate loans, for example, often (and should) have prepayment provisions, so a customer that takes a ten or 15-year loan out not only usually doubles their expected life with the bank because of the product but also sends the signal that they believe in the bank’s brand and will stay with them well into the future.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Outdoor and hiking brand Merrell thinks it can solve the problem. It recently launched an application via Alexa Skill and Google Assistant Action powered by conversational experience platform Voicify. Anybody who’s ever hiked has been there. Bad trail maps. No trail maps. Redundant hikes or walks. L’Oréal Speaks Up In APAC.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

And in a world where Amazon Alexa and Google Home Assistant are duking it out to be the future of conversational interactions between brands and consumers — powered by the latest in bio-authentication and artificial intelligences programmed to learn about their customers at all times — old-fashioned SMS text messaging can seem downright quaint.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As the Financial Times summed it up, “the company’s preoccupation with simplifying its portfolio, which includes Hotels.com and Trivago, and attracting new customers has compounded broader challenges for the industry as it grapples with competition from the likes of Airbnb and Google.”. Expedia Competition.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As the Financial Times summed it up, “the company’s preoccupation with simplifying its portfolio, which includes Hotels.com and Trivago, and attracting new customers has compounded broader challenges for the industry as it grapples with competition from the likes of Airbnb and Google.”. Expedia Competition.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase. Google Goes Big.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

The storied department store is a bit more than a brand at this point. Some have noted that Macy’s is a middle-market brand pitching to a middle class that no longer exists — or doesn’t exist in enough force to support its expansive business model. A lot has been written in recent years about everything that has gone wrong at Macy’s.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

The QSR chain is also providing diners with an immersive way to experience its brand via The Bell: A Taco Bell Hotel and Resort in Palm Springs, California in the summer for a limited time. The portion of millennial parents who would rather not eat at all than wait in long QSR lines is 48 percent. is 63,000.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Pinnacle Foods, which owns Vlasic pickles and other brands, has been targeted by activist investor Jana Partners. Short-term challenges. Medium-term challenges.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

Moving deeper into the quarter, inventory became a mounting problem due to a combination of factors, including a miss on key women’s sportswear private brands, a slow sell-through of warm-weather apparel and accelerated decline in the international tourism business. He noted that the second quarter got off to a slow start.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The highest interest is among “bridge millennials” whose card spend averages $40,000 annually. A lot of banking customers are going to switch brands this year, and services like mobile cards will be decisive for them. Mobile Cards: Make or Break? And in surveys at least, they don’t exhibit much loyalty to FIs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

Much thought is given to millennials and even Generation Z — consumers who were born during fixed periods of time, and who are having an increasing impact on payments and commerce. a prepaid mobile payment app designed for teenagers, available via the Google Play store. The limits can change as teens age and mature.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

billion fine onto Google, claiming that their product carousel ads created an unfair advantage to small guy retailers who didn’t have the money to advertise. They seemed to be living in the last decade, when people really did just use Google or Bing to look for products. Take Google. The regulators in Europe piled a $2.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But there was no clear branding on any of them unless you were in on the reference. It’s not just millennials and post-millennials using a free service any longer. It’s millennials and post-millennials (or their parents, more likely) with expendable income and a credit history. And just what are Spectacles?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Basically, it’s the Wonder Years for the millennial generation — with monsters. This is important for a brand like Kellogg’s which has been struggling as millennials are turning their backs on breakfast cereal. In fact, millennials have noted passing on cereal because it is too labor intensive to prepare.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Price reductions from consumers’ favorite brands would solve their issues, but retailers cannot drop prices as low as some might like. Millennials and members of Gen Z are already on board with BNPL. The latter launched a BNPL option from provider Afterpay in 2019, enabling installment payments online and through its mobile app.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If there was any stigma left about used clothing it may have been erased last week as Nordstrom put its high-end brand on what it calls “re-commerce.”. It also added multiple payment methods including Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay and Venmo. We like the handle. Logistics are being handled by Yerdle.

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Digital Growth Institute

JUNE 28, 2023

In a digital world where face-to-face interactions are becoming less common, how can financial brands establish trust with their customers? Unfortunately, there is currently a trust gap, with many millennials feeling like they have no one they can trust for financial guidance. Only a mere 8% of millennials trust financial institutions.

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