There are now more than 200 streaming services vying for eyeballs, attention and consumer spend. It’s one of the reasons that Vindicia Chief Operating Officer Roy Barak said streaming services have suddenly made an appearance as a credit card benefit offered by issuers. In a...
After years of building buzz, it looks like Tesla’s long awaited self-driving car package is ready to make an appearance on the market, as the electric car company is rolling out its latest subscription offering for owners. As of the Tesla app’s latest update, consumers have...
While fraud and data hacks get a lot of attention, the inverse problem of lost sales due to false declines is equally costly yet garners far fewer headlines. It’s not because the losses are small, FlexPay CEO Darryl Hicks told Karen Webster, projecting that the...
Talk about timing. Just as the subscription economy and direct-to-consumer (D2C) commerce were on an innovation tear, the pandemic hit, and subscription services became the go-to resource for all manner of goods and services. In fact, PYMNTS surveyed over 2,000 U.S. consumers to find that...
Disneyland is distinct from its Florida counterpart, Disney World, given the local feel of the Anaheim-based park. Annual passholders who lived in Southern California were a significant and visible part of the park experience, filling the Disneyland parking lots with an ocean of window stickers bearing...
The conventional wisdom that every business needs a good “moat,” or a competitive barrier that sets them apart from the pack and keeps predators at bay, is fine, as long as that chasm you’re counting on is not based on technology alone. In our latest...
Shared electric vehicle provider Lime will roll out a new monthly subscription service called Lime Prime, which will reduce ride fees and waive unlock fees for Lime bike, scooter or moped rides, a Thursday (May 27) press release emailed to PYMNTS said. By doing that,...
As the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the businesses who profited from the stay-at-home economy during its grasp now have to ask an inconvenient question: What do we do now? Every company that found a successful subscription model during the past year...
The pandemic didn’t entirely create the subscription boom seen over the last 15 or so months, but COVID-19 was undeniably an accelerant. Consumers stuck at home shopped for subscriptions the way they might once have roamed the aisles in brick-and-mortar retailers. An average of 34...
