The best digital marketing stats we’ve seen this week
As we head on into March, we’re back with the best digital marketing stats of the week.
Social Quarterly: Q4 2019
The latest trends, developments and statistics in social media, distilled by Econsultancy into a guide to what’s happening now and what you should be keeping an eye on.
How mobile payment is changing offline UX
This week, the first ever cashierless store opened in the UK: a Sainsbury’s Local supermarket that is experimenting with using the brand’s Scan, Pay & Go smartphone technology instead of tills and cashiers.
Venmo doubles down on mobile: Is it a smart move?
Popular P2P payments service Venmo, which is owned by PayPal, handled over $12bn in payments in the first quarter of 2018, but going forward, its users will have one less option when they go to send money to a friend.
The reasons a retailer is behind the most successful mobile payments solution
Which mobile payments app has the most users? If you guessed Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay – hereafter referred to as the Three Pays – you guessed wrong.
Despite the efforts of three of tech’s biggest names to drive adoption of their mobile payments solutions, it’s a retailer that has the most widely used mobile payments solution as measured by users.
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How Lush is raising the bar for in-store experience
With over 1,000 stores across the globe, cosmetics business Lush is no longer an underdog. Once considered a somewhat niche brand – with an odd mix of ethical dedication and a decidedly sunny personality to promote it – it has since broken through to the mainstream. Today, it’s widely thought of as one of the […]
New E.U. regulations could make it easier for fintechs to operate across the bloc
This past Saturday, new Open Banking rules that require big banks to share data with vetted third parties, including fintech upstarts, went into effect in the U.K.
Open Banking is more than anything else a reflection of the fact that the world is changing for big banks as regulators look to support fintech innovation.
Target is the latest retailer to launch a mobile wallet: Will it work?
2017 has been a record-breaking year for retail, and not in a good way.
Under pressure from a number of factors, including the growth of ecommerce, brick and mortar retailers have closed thousands of stores this year and some, including big names like Toys R Us, Sears Canada and Payless, have filed for bankruptcy.
Restaurants are going cashless, here’s three reasons why
It used to be the case that some restaurants or cafes would only accept cash.
Today, the reverse seems to be happening. Driven by the rise in electronic payments, many are now choosing to go cashless – taking away traditional registers altogether.
Can big banks catch up to Venmo with P2P payments app Zelle?
Digital disruption has impacted just about every industry and one could make an argument that perhaps nowhere is the disruption more evident than in financial services.
Despite the fact that entrenched financial services firms, including big banks, have almost unfathomable amounts of money, in almost every financial services market, upstarts have sought to dethrone the entrenched players.
A day in the life of… Product Director at Klarna
Klarna works with retailers such as Topshop, handling customer payments and providing ‘pay over time’ and ‘pay after delivery’ services.
We caught up with Product Director Mat Perkins to find out more about his role.
(If you’re after a new role yourself, check out the Econsultancy jobs board)
How Cancer Research is using smart technology to drive fundraising
Most London benches are a bit grim, usually marred by wet leaves and leftover kebabs. Naturally, a much shinier-looking bench caught my attention as I walked near Old Street the other day.
Upon further inspection, I discovered it was a Cancer Research ‘smart bench’ – one of many installed around the city earlier this year.