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New Survey Finds 65% of Consumers Are Reliant On Loyalty Programs Amid Economic Pressures This Holiday Season

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Growth, United Kingdom, Habit, YouGov, Ageing, Clutch (eggs), Commerce, Retail, Marketing, Tourism

The study, surveying over 4,000 consumers across the two regions, focuses on the use of loyalty programs, regional comparative consumer behavior, and shopping habits.

Key Points: 
  • The study, surveying over 4,000 consumers across the two regions, focuses on the use of loyalty programs, regional comparative consumer behavior, and shopping habits.
  • Millennial consumers (ages 35-44) are most likely (71%) to embrace loyalty programs to save money, while consumers ages 55 and up are least likely to use their rewards accounts.
  • US consumers who live in the Mid-West are least likely (60%) to use loyalty programs this holiday season compared to any other region.
  • While over half plan to use their rewards to get better discounts,15% of consumers said they don't have any loyalty programs.

Nearly Half of BNPL Consumers Prefer Pay-in-4 Over Credit Cards as They Look for More Choice at Checkout

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Professional Services, Payments, Apps, Applications, Technology, Finance, Software, St. Louis Fed Financial Stress Index, Holiday, Ageing, Gen, Oxford Economic Papers, Financial management, Generation Z, Pressure, Research, YouGov, BNPL, Economic impact analysis, Generation X, Online shopping, Marketing, Millennials, Afterpay

Additionally, the report reveals that two in five American consumers use BNPL services, with Afterpay being the most trusted BNPL offering among those who had tried it.

Key Points: 
  • Additionally, the report reveals that two in five American consumers use BNPL services, with Afterpay being the most trusted BNPL offering among those who had tried it.
  • A majority of the BNPL customers surveyed believe that it helps provide an alternative to paying high-interest credit card debt (70%).
  • Customers who use Afterpay valued its BNPL services more, over three times higher than other BNPL providers in the survey.
  • The low cost and convenience of BNPL services over credit cards is especially favored by Afterpay customers.

Landmark poll: Americans believe expanding education freedom strengthens the nation's education system

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Coverdell education savings account, Learning, Child, Parent, Data, Policy, Education, Student, YouGov, School, Multimedia, Nursing, Tutoring

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans believe expanding educational freedom will improve our nation's education system, according to a new landmark poll conducted by YouGov and released by yes.

Key Points: 
  • ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans believe expanding educational freedom will improve our nation's education system, according to a new landmark poll conducted by YouGov and released by yes.
  • This marks the first-ever national poll gauging Americans' views on the impacts of education freedom initiatives on the broader education system.
  • "Americans believe more education options will improve our nation's education system," said Matt Frendewey, vice president of the yes.
  • By expanding opportunities for families to customize the education to meet their kids' needs, we can improve education more broadly.

Principal® Foundation Announces National Short Story Contest Finalists

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Fiction, U.S. Army Community Relations, Fear, Millennials, YouGov, Principal Financial Group, Emotion, New York Mercantile Library

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Principal® Foundation, a nonprofit supporting areas locally and globally where Principal Financial Group® does business, announced 17 finalists for its inaugural national short story contest that invited people to share short stories around lived experiences with money. The contest is part of Money Chronicles: A Story Initiative, a new program from Principal Foundation that uses the power of storytelling to help destigmatize and encourage conversations about money and personal finances.

Key Points: 
  • DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Principal® Foundation, a nonprofit supporting areas locally and globally where Principal Financial Group® does business, announced 17 finalists for its inaugural national short story contest that invited people to share short stories around lived experiences with money.
  • The contest is part of Money Chronicles: A Story Initiative, a new program from Principal Foundation that uses the power of storytelling to help destigmatize and encourage conversations about money and personal finances.
  • The contest is hosted in collaboration with The Center for Fiction, a national literary nonprofit, and Short Édition, a global publishing house.
  • The finalists' stories touched upon these emotions and explored topics such as debt, sacrifice, and independence.

Gen Z, Young Millennials Nearly Twice As Likely To Plan for Layoffs, Self-Employment

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Thursday, October 12, 2023
Clutch (eggs), Mental health, YouGov, Genz, W-2, Employment, Interface (computing), Workforce, Ageing, SAN, Birth control, Toy, Nursing, Collective

GenZ and younger Millennial (aged 18-34) Americans are nearly twice as likely (59%) as older (aged 35+) workers (30%) to have a backup plan for employment in case of layoffs.

Key Points: 
  • GenZ and younger Millennial (aged 18-34) Americans are nearly twice as likely (59%) as older (aged 35+) workers (30%) to have a backup plan for employment in case of layoffs.
  • 59% of US adults aged 18-34 have a backup plan in case of layoffs, compared to only 30% of older US adults (aged 35+).
  • 20% of US adults aged 18-34 have a hobby, side hustle, or freelance work that they would turn into a career, compared to only 12% of older adults (aged 35+).
  • 19% of US adults aged 18-34 are actively saving in case of layoffs, compared to only 13% of older adults (aged 35+).

EQS-News: ILI.DIGITAL AG: Corporate Carbon Footprint Study combines for the first time comprehensive consumer survey with analysis of CO2 emissions of DAX companies

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Pressure, DAX, Silent Scope 2, Virtual reality, Risk, Internet, CO2, Scope, Carbon, Electricity, Digitalization, Artificial intelligence, Data collection, Carbon accounting, Waste management, AG, Environment, Woman, YouGov, Nature, Atmosphere, Renewable energy, Recycling, Agriculture

For the first time, ILI.DIGITAL combined the results of a comprehensive survey of consumers and employees with a complex evaluation of the CO2 emissions of the companies in the German share index, DAX.

Key Points: 
  • For the first time, ILI.DIGITAL combined the results of a comprehensive survey of consumers and employees with a complex evaluation of the CO2 emissions of the companies in the German share index, DAX.
  • In the second part of the study, ILI.DIGITAL analysed the CO2 emissions of the 40 companies in the German Stock Index (DAX), segmenting them by industry.
  • The study by ILI.DIGITAL makes it clear that potential savings in the CO2 emissions of companies are considerable, especially at Scope 3 level.
  • For sustainable companies, the corporate carbon footprint is what the brand used to be - their ticket to success on the market.

Technology Investment on the Rise to De-Risk Supply Chains, According to Latest FourKites Research

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Thursday, October 5, 2023
Software, Supply Chain Management, Supermarket, Data Management, Technology, Convenience Store, Retail, Trucking, Rail, Maritime, Air, Transport, Logistics, Risk, Software as a service, YouGov, Investment, Fortune 500

That’s according to survey findings released today in a new report, “Data-Driven Decisions: Why Many Supply Chains Are Falling Behind,” by leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites .

Key Points: 
  • That’s according to survey findings released today in a new report, “Data-Driven Decisions: Why Many Supply Chains Are Falling Behind,” by leading supply chain visibility provider FourKites .
  • FourKites partnered with international research data and analytics group YouGov to poll 500 supply chain leaders across every industry in the US and UK to understand how they’re digitizing their supply chains and mitigating risk.
  • Specifically, 48% of respondents say their supply chain digitization is sub-par, and 43% say they have no single source of truth for their data.
  • The platform houses the largest supply chain data set in a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS application that enables secure data sharing between most of the Fortune 500 and their supply chain ecosystems.

Survey reveals concerns and mixed feelings on the use of AI

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Thursday, October 12, 2023
Judgement, Teaching, Agriculture, Intelligence, AI, Communication, Ageing, Medicine, System, Artificial intelligence, Content, Research, Optimism, Woman, YouGov, Journalism, Publishing, Customer service, Medical device, Readly

Just one in five (19 percent) people are optimistic about the benefits of AI, compared to two thirds (62 percent) of respondents who were either worried or had mixed feelings, showed the YouGov research by Readly .

Key Points: 
  • Just one in five (19 percent) people are optimistic about the benefits of AI, compared to two thirds (62 percent) of respondents who were either worried or had mixed feelings, showed the YouGov research by Readly .
  • Men are more likely to trust AI with a quarter (25 percent) of men believing it is beneficial compared to just one in ten women (12 percent).
  • Echoing this preference, 32 percent of Brits said they felt the use of AI in teaching did more harm than good.
  • In stark contrast, only 13 percent of Brits said AI was harmful in the use of more solitary work like agriculture.

Rishi Sunak is introducing the polarised climate politics of the US, Canada and Australia to the UK

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Climate, Climate Change Levy, Climate Change Committee, PM, Face, Speech, Politics, Policy, Government, CCC, Tory, Inflation, Climate change, GDP, Income, Decarbonisation measures in proposed UK electricity market reform, YouGov, Growth, Rishi Sunak, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Conservatism, Renewable energy, Retail, Labour, Atlantic Ocean

There is a strategy behind this, but it’s one that risks ending a fragile cross-party consensus on net zero and turning the climate into a highly polarised issue.

Key Points: 
  • There is a strategy behind this, but it’s one that risks ending a fragile cross-party consensus on net zero and turning the climate into a highly polarised issue.
  • However, politics is often about the short term, specifically the next election.
  • The political difficulty is that the green transition really does entail relatively high investment costs for voters over the short run.
  • Plus, this strategy of keeping climate policy costs low for consumers has a long history in the UK across both parties.
  • Fuel duty was frozen after 2011 before being reduced by Sunak in 2022 when he was Chancellor.

Similar climate politics in similar countries

    • Under these rules, elections tend to be very competitive contests over attracting voters in a handful of key marginal constituencies.
    • Consequently, climate policy in these places entails many fewer costs for households compared with northern Europe, for example.
    • The US’s flagship climate policy, the Inflation Reduction Act, imposes no costs on consumers, offering only subsidies.

Political will can evaporate quickly

    • Whether it will work is not clear yet.
    • More broadly, this case underscores the political difficulty of imposing sustained costs on consumers, and how the much called for, but ever-elusive, “political will” to address climate change, can evaporate quickly in the face of short-term political expediency.

New Poll Shows RFK Jr. Can Win as Independent

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Monday, October 2, 2023
RFK, Democrat, YouGov, Congress, Culture, DNC, Airline, Trump

SPARTANBURG, S.C., Oct. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- An American Values Poll conducted Zogby Strategies of likely general election voters shows that in a three-way race between Kennedy, Trump, and Biden, RFK Jr. enters the contest at 19% with Biden and Trump at 38% each. Kennedy would be the highest-polling independent or 3rd party candidate to enter a presidential election in the modern era, starting off where Ross Perot finished—after spending an enormous amount of money.

Key Points: 
  • "If this Poll shows anything," said Tony Lyons, Co-Chairman of American Values 2024, "it's that Kennedy can win as an independent candidate in 2024."
  • One of the most effective DNC slurs against Bobby Kennedy has been that his candidacy will help Trump win.
  • Kennedy is taking more votes from Trump than from Biden, according to this Poll as well as a recent YouGov poll.
  • The DNC, like the multibillion-dollar corporations that it represents, shows that it prefers Trump to Bobby Kennedy," said Lyons.