July 03, 2015
Americans Celebrate Independence With Shopping (And Fireworks)
While working in commerce and finance news, we at PYMNTS get to cover lots of surprises but very rarely are those surprises good news. Mostly, when the word “surprise” occurs...
July 02, 2015
The Streaming Media Mind (And Money) Games
How much do you pay for streaming media? If you had to think about it, that’s probably good news for subscription-based services like Netflix. In the game of on-demand entertainment,...
July 01, 2015
Drizly Pours Omnichannel Into Digital Liquor Store
The on-demand delivery app, which focuses specifically on bringing customers beer, wine and liquor, will partner with BlueConic’s individualized marketing platform to bring a more personalized experience to customers across...
June 26, 2015
Netflix Goes Pay As You Watch…In The UK
Netflix UK has just changed who can binge watch – and how they’ll pay – with the release of the prepaid Netflix card. The card works in much the same...
June 25, 2015
Amazon: The Merchant’s Best Friend?
Attention, eCommerce merchants: Amazon is not your enemy. On the contrary, the company can actually help its partners increase its conversion rates 20 times over. In a lively and informative...
June 20, 2015
Dad-Economics: How Dads Shop
The Internet has spoken and apparently consumers have two options for getting their fathers a gift for Father’s Day. An Apple Watch. Or nothing at all. We are...
June 18, 2015
What Changed Your World Behind The Scenes
To say there is a lot going in the world of retail every week is sort of like saying there is a lot going on with a Category 5 hurricane...
June 16, 2015
Blog o’ Blogs June 2015
June 2015, Volume 5, Number 6 Besides the latest from SCOTUS, DG Comp, and the U.S. regulators, we have a number of international contributions this month—from, among others, South Africa,...
June 12, 2015
B2B Investment Tracker, June 5-12
The B2B investment space was abuzz this past week with venture capitalists providing financial support to an array of industries, including eCommerce and alternative lending. But the biggest winners were...
The “Subscription Commerce Tracker™,” powered by Recurly, explores how companies use subscription-based commerce to build long-term customer relationships and steady revenue sources. The report includes notable developments in the market and the companies that are rapidly innovating the space.