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Apple Pay Teams Up With Panera On Free Coffee Deal
Thursday 14th January - 2:20 pm
Apple is betting the lure of free coffee will help boost use of Apple Pay.
Customers who subscribe to MyPanera+ Coffee can get four months of coffee for free if they ...Opportunities And Hurdles In The Evolution Of Retail
Tuesday 12th January - 11:00 am
Outstanding Foods is developing non-meat equivalents of bacon seasoning, pork rinds and other piggy products for the direct-to-consumer (D2C) and retail markets. In subscriptions, Amazon Prime and Walmart+ saw declines in U.S. paid subscribers in late December. And in ...Amazon Prime, Walmart+ See Post-Holiday Declines As Free Trials Expire
Monday 11th January - 11:00 am
Amazon Prime and the recently launched Walmart+ both saw drop-offs in U.S. paid subscribers in late December, but Walmart+ fell further — showing the newcomer has a fight on its ...Nothing Good To Watch On Netflix Or Prime? Streaming Startup Struum Seeks Tired Viewers
Friday 8th January - 1:04 pm
With an all-star media management team and deep-pocketed big name financial backers, the world’s newest video streaming service, Struum, announced that it is preparing to take on some of the ...Coca-Cola Revisits Subscription Model; Latest CPG Company To Embrace The Digital D2C Future
Tuesday 5th January - 12:23 pm
The Coca-Cola Insiders Club has returned — sort of. Though currently marked sold out on the website for the current three-month run that will see insiders receive monthly subscription boxes of goodies, ...From Comfy Sweats To Big Corporate Bets; 5 WFH Trends That Look Set To Stay
Friday 1st January - 4:00 am
“The future comes one day at a time,” statesman Dean Acheson, architect of the Cold War’s Truman Doctrine once said.
While the post-war issues of the 1940s and ’50s clearly carried ...The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation
Thursday 31st December - 4:03 am
How We Will Pay: Home As The Consumer Command Center
This study showed that the home had become the consumer’s commerce command center as they changed their daily routines to do ...Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Tools To Compete With Google, Microsoft
Wednesday 23rd December - 1:51 pm
Spurred by accelerated use amid the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom is considering the integration of calendar and email tools to better compete with Microsoft and Google, The Verge reported on Wednesday ...Getting Subscription Bundles Right For Minimum Churn
Tuesday 22nd December - 9:30 am
Subscription bundles come in many forms, from cable TV tiers to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers assembling suites of digital collaboration tools. The problem is that some people don’t want to pay ...Putting Subscription Commerce’s ‘Get, Keep and Grow’ Playbook To Work
Tuesday 22nd December - 4:00 am
In the beginning, there were bundles. Then came unbundling, followed not long after by the introduction of “rundles,” or recurring revenue bundles. And now, thanks to a global pandemic that has pushed ...Disbursements, Main Street SMBs And BarkBox’s Merger With SPAC Top This Week’s News
Friday 18th December - 5:12 pm
The PYMNTS Weekender is here to catch you up on the latest news at the end of the last full work week before Christmas. We have deep dives on disbursements, ...What The Subscription Market’s 2020 Surge Tells Us About Retail’s 2021 Remake
Friday 18th December - 4:01 am
The holiday shopping season is in full swing — and it’s increasingly looking like “’tis the season for purchasing subscriptions.”
Recurly CEO Dan Burkhart told Karen Webster in a recent discussion ...Today In Payments: GoCardless Raises $95 Million; BarkBox To Go Public Via SPAC At $1.6 Billion Valuation
Thursday 17th December - 3:54 pm
In today’s top news, GoCardless raised $95 million in a funding round, and BarkBox plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Plus, Fiserv is acquiring Ondot ...SaaS Subscriptions And More Use Platform Tech To Extend Signup Streak
Thursday 17th December - 10:30 am
Talking about a COVID-era subscription boom in the abstract is one thing, but there’s nothing like a real-life use case to illustrate the recurring digital dollars being generated today.
“The New ...BarkBox To Go Public Via SPAC At $1.6 Billion Valuation
Thursday 17th December - 6:39 am
New York subscription startup BarkBox is merging with the blank-check company Northern Star Acquisitions Corp. in a $1.6 billion deal, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, citing sources.
The initial public ...Deep Dive: How Flexible SaaS Plans Are Helping Businesses And Consumers During The Pandemic
Wednesday 16th December - 7:45 am
The pandemic has affected nations around the globe and touched almost every industry, bringing the U.S. economy to a screeching halt in Q2 2020. At least one industry appears to ...Rising Interest In Online Grocery Shopping And Subscriptions
Tuesday 15th December - 11:00 am
Online grocery shopping isn’t a completely new phenomenon, but the pandemic period has sped up its progress. Grocery has truly turned into a multichannel shopping journey this year, as consumers have migrated to harnessing ...ProQuo AI On Preventing Pandemic-Related Subscription Churn
Tuesday 15th December - 8:00 am
More businesses are using subscriptions to keep their operations running remotely, but Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers have not been immune to the pandemic’s impacts. In the Subscription Commerce Tracker, Nadim Sadek, ...AI Plays Key Role In Preventing Subscription Churn
Monday 14th December - 4:00 am
Subscription services are taking off during the pandemic, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers are no exception. Many of these solutions providers are offering key services for businesses with employees working from ...Disney+ Accelerates Streaming, Bundled Future Of Movies And Media
Friday 11th December - 12:53 pm
In media, specifically in-home entertainment, there are the subscriptions — and then there are the extras on top of the subscriptions. Then there are the ancillary revenue streams on top of ...The Rise Of Apparel Subscriptions, Social Commerce And BNPL
Friday 11th December - 10:15 am
Apparel subscriptions are adapting to the work-from-home trend, as physical retail stores are feeling the effects of light traffic and reluctant shoppers. In digital retail, the social commerce category is completing the year ...Disney+ Has Almost 87 Million Subscribers, Up From 73 Million
Thursday 10th December - 9:49 pm
On its Investor Day event Thursday (Dec. 10), Disney+ touted 86.8 million subscribers, CNBC reported.
The streaming service for the entertainment giant has been increasing numbers from even the 73 million ...Stitch Fix, Apparel Subscriptions Adapt To Work-From-Home World
Wednesday 9th December - 3:24 pm
With her company’s stock trading at an all-time high, Stitch Fix Founder and CEO Katrina Lake told investors this week that the company’s ability to adapt to lifestyle changes brought ...DoorDash Ordered To Cut DashPass Commissions By DC Attorney General
Wednesday 9th December - 1:34 pm
The attorney general of the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, has written a letter ordering DoorDash Inc. to stop charging eateries a 30 percent fee on each order through the ...Today In Payments: Stripe To Offer Banking As A Service To Merchants; Affirm Expands Canadian Presence With PayBright Buy
Friday 4th December - 2:56 pm
In today’s top news, Stripe will offer financial services to merchants on its platform, Affirm acquired BNPL firm PayBright, and J.P. Morgan analysts predict merger and acquisition deals to continue ...sticky.io CEO Says Walmart Among Those Building Stronger Customer Relationships Through Subscriptions
Friday 4th December - 4:03 am
This year’s holiday shopping season is going to be very different — and very digital — than what’s come before, sticky.io CEO Brian Bogosian told Karen Webster in a recent ...Report: Amazon Eyes Buying Startup Wondery As Entry To Podcasts
Wednesday 2nd December - 6:50 pm
Amazon is in talks to purchase of podcast maker Wondery, a startup that could help the tech giant push more into the burgeoning podcast sector, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ...Walmart Adds Free Shipping To Walmart+ Subscription Program
Wednesday 2nd December - 12:46 pm
Another day, another move to capture consumer spend as the holiday shopping season enters into its second half in 2020. This time around it’s an announcement of a new perk for ...Subscription-Based Companies See Happy Holidays (And Renewals)
Wednesday 2nd December - 4:01 am
For all its many horrors, 2020 has turned out to be a surprisingly good time to sell subscriptions to consumers. The latest PYMNTS/Recurly Subscription Commerce Conversion Index found that some 15 million consumers ...Epic Games Introduces Xbox, PS5 Fortnite Crew Subscription
Wednesday 25th November - 11:45 am
Epic Games is rolling out a new monthly subscription service — Fortnite Crew — for Xbox and Playstation gaming systems, timed with the Dec. 2 release of Fortnite Chapter 2 ...Benchmarking Subscription Commerce’s KPIs
Wednesday 25th November - 4:00 am
Like patients who avoid going to the doctor because they don’t want any bad news, online sellers who aren’t rigorously and continuously analyzing their customer data are also ignoring potential ...ResTech’s Rising Prominence In Writing The Future Of The Industry
Tuesday 24th November - 11:10 pm
Point-of-sale restaurant technology startup Toast recently held a secondary share offering that reportedly valued the company at $8 billion as restaurants and ResTech rebound from COVID-19 lockdowns’ depths.
CNBC this week ...Subscriptions Define COVID-Era Resilience With Ingenuity
Tuesday 24th November - 10:00 am
If “resilience” is a bona fide buzzword flying out of 2020 (and it is), then subscriptions are its commercial embodiment. As offices and stores went dark and the population hunkered ...What SaaS's Business Model Evolution Means For B2B Payments
Tuesday 24th November - 8:00 am
The B2B Software-as-a-Service market has followed a fairy unique evolutionary path over the last few decades. Built with its foundations largely in the enterprise world, software first began being sold ...Putting Subscriptions On The Menu At Restaurants And QSRs
Tuesday 24th November - 4:03 am
The pandemic has been bad news for just about everyone over the past several months, but that doesn’t mean it’s been equally bad all around. Restaurants and convenience stores rank among ...Panera To Provide Discounted Coffee Subscriptions For Gifts
Monday 23rd November - 10:09 am
Panera Bread announced that its MyPanera+ Coffee Subscription is available for gifting, noting that it’s the first national restaurant firm to provide a limitless subscription for “premium hot drip coffee, ...Nearly One Quarter Of Walmart+ Users Are On A Free Trial
Tuesday 17th November - 3:08 pm
Ever since mid-September when Walmart launched Walmart+, its new subscription service — often referred to as “Walmart’s answer to Amazon Prime” — the question has been how the product actually ...Walmart Earnings Show Digital Momentum; Execs Back Off Subscription Membership Numbers
Tuesday 17th November - 11:00 am
The digital shift is alive and well at Walmart. The largest U.S. retailer posted its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday morning (Nov. 17) with another quarterly spike in eCommerce sales and, ...Target Nixes Subscription Service
Friday 13th November - 5:09 pm
Target has canceled its subscription service, a foray into bulk discount purchasing launched seven years ago. Through the service, Target customers were able to automatically reorder items in bulk while ...Walmart Earnings Provide New Insight Into Digital-First Economy
Friday 13th November - 11:00 am
Walmart will lay claim to its share of the U.S. consumer’s whole paycheck on Tuesday (Nov.17) when it announces its Q3 earnings. Analysts expect another jump in overall revenue, which ...Subscription Brands Grow By Cutting Frictions From Cross-Border Commerce
Friday 13th November - 10:30 am
We know the pandemic is very bad. Life goes on regardless, and some businesses are actually doing okay in the year of COVID. Subscription brands, for example, are looking good.
“News ...Disney+ Garners Over 73M Paid Subscribers; Consumers Willing To Visit Disney Parks
Thursday 12th November - 9:57 pm
The Walt Disney Company reported on Thursday (Nov. 12) as part of its Q4 results that Disney+ had over 73 million paid subscribers at the conclusion of the quarter. “The response ...Today In Payments: Railsbank Closes $37M Funding Deal; Google Critics Demand Prompt Antitrust Enforcement
Thursday 12th November - 2:54 pm
In today’s top news, Railsbank closed a $37 million funding deal, and companies in the U.S. and U.K. urged antitrust regulators to act fast in enforcement toward Google. Plus, Afterpay ...Walmart Rolls Out Omnichannel Pet Care Suite
Thursday 12th November - 10:48 am
As it continues to grow its complete suite of pet offerings, Walmart is rolling out its Walmart Pet Care omnichannel product.
The merchant is harnessing the top providers in the industry ...PayPal, BigCommerce and AdoreMe On Adapting To The Unknowns In A Digital-First Economy
Thursday 12th November - 4:00 am
The year 2020 has been big for “un” words: unprecedented, unknown, unforgettable and (of course) unending.
Adore Me Vice President of Growth Labs Camille Kress noted in an On The Agenda ...
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