January 08, 2019
Netflix Gets A Rival In The Middle East

Middle Eastern broadcaster MBC is expanding its video streaming service to take on Netflix in the region. According to Financial Times, the Dubai-based MBC is also hiring former Hulu executive Johannes...

January 07, 2019
Burrow’s Couch-In-A-Box Unpacks The Showrooming Sofa Experience

According to recent research from Furniture Village, the average couch has a much fuller and longer life than you probably realize. Over the course of its 11-year life it will host...

January 07, 2019
2019: What To Take Forward And What To Leave Behind

Welcome to the first Monday of 2019. According to the Chinese calendar, 2019 is the “Year of the Pig” – which may not, at first blush, inspire much excitement for...

January 03, 2019
Banks Jump Into The Contextual Commerce Stream

Consumers in the digital age don’t really embark on commerce journeys anymore, so much as they find themselves always on one. This is a situation that Chief Marketing Officer Devon Watson at...

January 02, 2019
Roku To Offer Subscription Of Premium Channels

Roku, a company that makes a video device allowing customers to watch streaming services like Netflix, announced on Wednesday (Jan. 2) that it’s starting a premium video channel service for...

January 02, 2019
2018: The Year Of The Subscription

It has been a year of subscription innovation, with businesses in many verticals – from food to transportation – providing consumers with products and services for a recurring fee. Below,...

December 31, 2018
Visa: Why Consumers Are In Control At The POS

Carleigh Jaques, SVP, global head of merchant digital products at Visa, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. For decades, the interaction at the point of sale...

December 28, 2018
AEVI CEO: 2018 Was The Year Of Changing

Mike Camerling, CEO of AEVI, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. We cannot call 2018 a Year of Change, for that would imply that we...

December 26, 2018
How Matchmakers Ignite: 2018 Edition

Matchmaking businesses aren’t exactly  a new idea — though the breathless enthusiasm of the tech press might lead one to mistakenly believe that the concept sprang into existence in 2009...