Taylor Swift fans queue outside Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, on June 6, 2024. Her fans, known as Swifties, had made the superstar $200 million in Eras merchandise sales as of November 2023. Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images News | Getty Images The price of ‘funflation’ Some ticket prices have surged in recent months, … Read more
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. More than 2.4 million college graduates are poised to enter the workforce this year, but many report feeling woefully unprepared. Here’s what employers can do about it. According to a recent survey of more than 2,000 U.S. workers conducted by my company, nearly two-thirds of Gen Z … Read more
Move over family travelers. Gen Zs are set to make the biggest splash this summer, with surveys showing they are upping their vacation plans and spending more than older travelers. No longer satisfied with road trips to their parents’ homes, Gens Z are planning international trips at higher rates than other generations, according to a … Read more
A recent study by Splitit, the only white-label card-based installment platform using consumer credit, in partnership with Pymnts looked at how consumers use the buy now, pay later payment plans and how the model has changed consumer behavior over the last six months. The report titled “Redefining Retail: Consumer Finance Trends Driving the Evolution of Installment Plans,” surveyed more … Read more
In a recent survey published by Amex, small business owners have cited cash flow and pricing as their concerns for the year. The third edition of the “Amex Trendex: Small Business Edition” surveyed 1,127 SMB decision-makers, including 514 businesses with 10 employees or less, 412 businesses with 11 to 100 employees and 201 businesses with 101 to 500 employees. Top concerns by SMB owner … Read more
In the midst of the ongoing financial crisis, women are rethinking how they do everything from celebrating friends’ milestones to planning families. In two separate consumer surveys, Credit Karma digs into the key changes women are making to adjust for the rise in cost of living and the nuanced shifts in behavior. Both surveys, conducted … Read more
A new King’s Cross College London study, which surveyed almost 20,000 people across 31 countries, exposed Gen Z’s “woke” culture on gender equality as being less progressive than initially thought. The study questioned adults, both male and female, who have access to the internet and were between the ages of 18 and 74. While the … Read more
When teacher and father Ichiro Ogawa is catapulted from 1986 to 2024, he scandalises millennials and Gen Z-ers with his disregard for their views on gender, family and labour rights. A poster advertising Extremely Inappropriate. Photo: Twitter/@NetflixJP Implicit in his candid words is a question: is society today, with its good intentions around issues like … Read more
There’s naked dressing, and then there’s the weather in Sweden. This winter has seen temperatures plunge to minus 25 degrees Celsius, so Jonny Johansson’s first instinct was to cover up. He opened his Acne Studios show with a yeti-style jacket made from Icelandic shearling, but it’s hard to escape the bare-skinned trend sweeping the fall … Read more
Gen Z isn’t so young anymore. The much-discussed generation of consumers (currently ages 12 to 27) are in the workforce and have their own money to spend. To get a pulse on where the adult segment of the Gen Z consumer is today, Her Campus surveyed a pool of more than 2,000 consumers ages 18 … Read more
