Curation news and trends

Curation Models Fight Back Against Subscription Fatigue
Subscriptions // May 26, 2021

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...

Thrive Market: Why ‘Membership Is Really A State Of Mind’
eCommerce // January 15, 2020

A shortlist of the trends that will define payments and commerce in the 2020s would almost certainly have to include sustainable notions of retail, along with the growth and evolution of subscription commerce. Not only that, but thriving in a digital world dominated by Amazon...

Why Experts – Not Influencers – Are Retail’s Next Big Thing
Retail // January 01, 2020

In the age of the always-online consumer, it might seem one could expect to find the exact information they need about whatever they want to buy simply by typing in a few keywords and exploring pages of “best of” product listicles. Those lists work great...

Is ‘Walking In A Live Instagram Account’ The Future Of Physical Retail?
Retail // November 08, 2019

Remember those first giddy days of eCommerce? If so, one can probably remember the fantastical predictions that, before too long, brick-and-mortar retail would go the way of the horse-and-buggy. Those were the days. Physical retail may be going through some tough times. Malls are all...

Interviews & Exclusives
Subscription Merchants Tweak Business Models to Keep Consumers

October 27, 2022
As subscription commerce moves from the pandemic sign-up wave to consumers being more selective and wanting more control, subscription providers are enhancing business models to deliver more value at a time when many subscriptions must pass the “nonessential” test. Speaking with PYMNTS for the “Subscribe and Scale” series, sticky.io Director, Sales Engineering Greg Austin laid […]

Curation Models Fight Back Against Subscription Fatigue

May 26, 2021
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...

Thrive Market: Why ‘Membership Is Really A State Of Mind’

January 15, 2020
A shortlist of the trends that will define payments and commerce in the 2020s would almost certainly have to include sustainable notions of retail, along with the growth and evolution...

Why Experts – Not Influencers – Are Retail’s Next Big Thing

January 01, 2020
In the age of the always-online consumer, it might seem one could expect to find the exact information they need about whatever they want to buy simply by typing in...

Quick Reads
Facebook Rolls Out Curated News Feature

October 25, 2019
With the soft launch of a new curation product called Facebook News, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and News Corp CEO Robert Thomson engaged in a discussion at the Paley Media Center in New York City. The news curation product is said to showcase daily news of a high quality, Venture Beat reported. News rolled out […]