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| APR 20, 2022
Like the military service personnel it serves, the San Antonio-based bank is primarily mobile; it has only five branches within the US. USAA was one of the first banks to offer mobile check deposit and was an early user of app-based intelligent assistants, per American Banker.
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| OCT 21, 2021
Report: The US Digital-Only Banking Revolution. Article: US Bank unveils rewards-centric secured cards to usher in potential customers. Article: How do US adults feel about a cashless society?
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| MAR 29, 2022
Although only 35.0% of total sub OTT users will watch Netflix this year, the service still towers over every competitor. We do not yet have global projections for Netflix’s biggest challengers, like Disney and Amazon.
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| DEC 7, 2021
Six of the top 10 offered only two features. The average category score (42 points) was worse only than that of Digital Money Management (35 points). Not all tools are made equal: Security and Control registered the widest gap in demand between its most and least valued features, indicating clear product development priorities for FIs. Chase wiped out the competition with a 20-point lead over USAA.
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| MAR 23, 2022
Only members of 88VIP, its paid loyalty program, were offered a chance to redeem their earned points for one of the digital collectibles, which came in four sets of 8,888 copies. Here’s how global brands and retailers can make the most of NFTs in China.
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| APR 18, 2022
It’s not only one of the most-used social media and digital video platforms, but is also free from the production and M&A costs of its competitors thanks to its user-generated content and the recent shutdown of its Originals program.
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| JAN 6, 2022
Traditional retailers in Latin America have a unique advantage over digital-only retailers; they can leverage their brick-and-mortar stores as distribution centers to fulfill online orders rather than having to invest millions of dollars to build these centers from scratch. All of Liverpool’s stores serve as distribution centers for fulfilling orders placed through its digital channels.
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| APR 25, 2022
As a result, only 56% of account holders in rural areas use online banking, compared to 75% in large Metropolitan Statistical Areas and 68% in small Metropolitan Statistical Areas, per the Federal Reserve. High levels of financial needs often intersect with less access to banks, harming rural consumers, the CFPB said:.
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| MAR 25, 2022
Disney isn’t the only popular streaming service to skew toward young people. Just under one-third of YouTube’s total viewers are under 25 years old. Netflix has a similar makeup: Viewers under 25 account for 31.8% of all Netflix viewers. These figures show viewers of Disney+, YouTube, and Netflix are more likely to be young when compared with other CTV viewers.
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| MAY 25, 2022
The beauty industry is getting a digital makeover, thanks to Gen Z, viral TikTok trends, AR capabilities, and new consumer behaviors. Brands will need to take a multichannel approach to keep up.
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| JAN 28, 2022
The UK will register about $246 billion in digital sales, and South Korea will see roughly $143 billion. Only the US will rival China with more than $1 trillion in ecommerce orders, but they will represent just 16.1% of total retail sales. More like this:. Report: Spotlight: US Online Fashion Resale.
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| SEP 28, 2021
The news: A sizable swath of US consumers don’t want to move their primary banking relationships to digital-only players due to security concerns, per a new survey from PYMNTS and Optherium.
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| FEB 14, 2022
More than half (56%) of retailers have raised prices beyond inflation to boost profits, while 55% have increased their prices by 20% or more, per a November 2021 survey from Digital.com. Of course, this tactic only works if enough people are willing and able to stomach higher costs.
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| OCT 21, 2021
However, time spent each day with online TV and streaming options was actually lower than in 2020, at 1:10. Social networking and messaging were the only activities to rival smartphone ownership by reach. Fully 97.0% of internet users said they had checked in to at least one of 37 named social networks in the previous month, and 97.4% had used at least one messaging service.
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| MAY 13, 2022
In analyzing the media landscape, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is reimagining the future of digital viewership. In this Q&A, the IAB's Eric John, vice president, media center, discussed continuous growth in video advertising and connected TV, why the old model of a million-dollar TV commercial playing once everywhere is gone, and how to make creative work better.
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| APR 7, 2022
Why it matters: Demand for a large bundle might only increase as the streaming wars heat up, locking more and more digital content behind platform exclusivity. Streaming services are currently warring over exclusive rights to live sports, Japanese animation, studio films, and more. If users find it difficult to hunt down specific content now, it might only become harder as time goes on.
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| OCT 29, 2021
Mainstream banks are hitting back at the potent threat of neobanks by adopting the digital best practices that the challengers first championed, per The US Digital-Only Banking Revolution report. To the detriment of neobanks, this includes partnering with third-party vendors and making strategic acquisitions to increase their digital account holder volumes.
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| APR 7, 2022
Willem Dinger, global director of sponsorships at Unilever, noted that gamers are spending sizable sums on digital avatars. Tapping into that spending is not only a form of opt-in advertising, but has the potential to be a not-insignificant revenue generator for CPG manufacturers like his—a “massive business opportunity,” in his words.
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| OCT 22, 2021
Brazil, another large country with an enthusiastic base of digital audio listeners, shows a similar but less extreme divergence:. More than 70% of its online population will listen to digital audio at least once per month. But only a little over a third (34.9%) of that cohort will listen to podcasts as often.
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| OCT 14, 2021
Digital Money Management. Category Value: 11.4% of total points. Revolut trounced the competition. Its score of 62.4 points was almost double runner-up Starling’s 33.9. Revolut offered four of the seven digital money management features, including the two most in-demand: subscription cancellation and account aggregation. Starling supported only two of the tools in this category.
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| MAR 28, 2022
The awareness that the service has more than just “Ted Lasso” won’t be enough for Apple TV+ to catch up anytime soon, but it can only help.
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| NOV 16, 2021
Retail already had the biggest stake of the US digital ad pie in 2019, but by 2023, its share will grow faster than any other industry, gaining almost 5 percentage points. Entertainment’s share will also grow, but only by half a percentage point, while media’s share will decrease by 1 percentage point.
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