Dating apps have never been more popular, with more than 60 million downloads last year in the United States. PYMNTS’ research finds that their use has risen 7% over the past year to 28% in March 2023, a share that represents 73 million consumers. Over half of these...
As millennials enter new life phases like home ownership and parenthood, those added financial pressures make this high-earning demographic most likely to live paycheck to paycheck. However, they are learning how to better manage finances despite it. In the latest New Reality Check: The Paycheck-to-Paycheck Report...
As consumers seek budget-friendly alternatives to dining out, shoppable recipes are catching on, according to Chicory. The contextual commerce platform, which announced last month the expansion of its partnership with publishing giant Hearst to offer all its ad solutions across 17 of the media company’s...
Every three months, like clockwork, earnings season settles in. As May dawns and the first quarter is behind us, investors get to take stock of the state of the U.S. consumer, enterprise spending — and what’s to come. To that end, the CE 100 Index...
Earnings season has begun in earnest, and a cavalcade of income statements and webcasts with analysts will mark the next few weeks. Volatile stock price movements drove the CE 100 Index to a virtual standstill, off 0.5% for the week. Communications names were 5% lower,...
The creator economy is apparently leaving a bulk of creators out in the cold. In an opinion piece published Saturday (April 22) by the Financial Times, Leo Lewis argues there is a “stunning concentration of revenues” on a small number of Gen Z creators, and...
Bumble. Tinder. Hinge. MeetMe. Grindr. Plenty of Fish. Every month, 73 million consumers across the United States log in to dating apps like these to search for dates, hookups and partners, and 25 million of them log in every single day. Meeting via app is...
The tech guru’s newest venture aims to be everything to everyone. But is it possible? Months of rumblings kicked off in November with Twitter reportedly filing with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to begin the registration process for processing payments. This first step for the...
Earnings season is here. And as is always the case, big banks kicked things off. The CE 100 Index gained a scant 0.63% through last week, as quarterly reports from JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, part of our pantheon of connected economy stocks, helped drive the...
