Kobie Named a Leader and a Customer Favorite in Loyalty Platforms, Q4 2025 Evaluation

Seamless, Real-Time Data Flow From Capillary’s Loyalty Platform to Adobe Experience Platform Unlocks Personalization & Engagement at Scale ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA – December 10, 2025 – Kobie, a leading authority in loyalty technology and services, has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Platforms, Q4 2025. Kobie additionally received the Customer Favorite designation while achieving the highest possible […]

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QVC Showcases its Breadth of Product with Holiday Pop-Up

Pop-up stores can do a lot for a retailer, including test a geographic region, spur sales and experiment with new concepts. For QVC’s holiday pop-up house in New York City, the main goal was to increase brand awareness, said Rosalia Bucaro, Chief Merchandising Officer at QVC.  “We’re trying to get our brand out there and get […]

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Harris Poll: Marketers Must Combat Algorithmic Sameness and Appeal to a Lottery Mindset

More than half of millennial and Gen Z Americans trust manifestation practices more than compound interest as a way of building wealth, according to the Harris Poll, and 41% would consider hiring astrologers, witches or other such practitioners to help them make life decisions. While those numbers grab attention in and of themselves, “the real […]

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Digital Trends Report: The Tech Set to Influence the Sports and Media Landscape

Sports marketing agency IMG has released its eighth annual Digital Trends Report, highlighting the technologies and innovations set to influence the sports and media landscape over the coming year. Ashley Shaner, IMG’s Vice President of Strategy & Operations for Digital, shares key insights. Chief Marketer: What is the key takeaway for brands? Ashley Shaner, Vice […]

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Double raises $6.5M from investors including Jack Altman and YC to make accountants twice as powerful

Hi there and welcome to Funded, where we spotlight early-stage bets on the future of tech. Today, we’re highlighting Double, the newly rebranded accounting platform (formerly Keeper) that just raised $6.5 million to help firms close books faster, smarter, and with more human impact. Double, which now serves over 4,000 firms across North America, has […]

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From MiCA to GENIUS: Standard Chartered’s Jennifer Lassiter on Building Global Crypto Rules

“MiCA released a regime that was a starting point, and it gives us boundaries to work from. And then we moved to the US, and now we see GENIUS, and we grow, and we iterate from there.“ “I scare everyone in the bank with my [laptop’s] crypto sticker,” joked Jennifer Lassiter, Managing Director and Head […]

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#730: Now Built the Way People Travel – Choice Hotels’ Choice Privileges has Changed!

This episode is also available in video format on www.Loyalty.TV. Over the past year Choice Hotels has made changes to their customer loyalty and rewards program, Choice Privileges, and following their most recent announcement we were fortunate to reconnect with Nandika Suri who is their Vice President of Loyalty, Cobrand Card and Partnerships for Choice Hotels International. The conversation flows from her impressive career […]

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Adobe Partners with Capillary Technologies for Integrated Loyalty Platform with Real-Time Data Flow Solution

Seamless, Real-Time Data Flow From Capillary’s Loyalty Platform to Adobe Experience Platform Unlocks Personalization & Engagement at Scale DALLAS, TEXAS – Capillary Technologies, a global leader in AI-powered loyalty and customer engagement, today announced it has integrated with Adobe Experience Platform as a loyalty platform partner, setting a new benchmark for innovation in customer experience […]

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Consumers Drive 8% lift in Holiday Gift Card Purchases Over Thanksgiving Weekend

Cyber Monday sales fall approximately 7%. Third-party sales see an uptick, and in-store a downtick, but sales hold relatively consistent year-over-year NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – December 11, 2025 – Paytronix, an Access Group Company, and the leader in guest engagement for restaurants and convenience stores, reports that restaurant gift card sales saw a consumer shift to earlier […]

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Nonprofit Airbnb.org Brings Home the Spirit of Giving in its New Campaign

Like so many holiday campaigns, the nonprofit organization Airbnb.org’s new “Gift a Night” campaign is meant to remind audiences of the joys of gift-giving and time spent with loved ones. But it’s not just a seasonal trope for Airbnb.org; those values are at the crux of the nonprofit’s messaging year-round. Airbnb.org, founded by rental company […]

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