Fitness & Fandom & the Omniverse: 5 opportunity areas changing the game

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The Future of Sports 

It’s a new kind of game day in the sports world. After the global pandemic caused leagues and competitions on all levels across the world to shut down, the return of sports has been welcomed. It’s also brought up the question of where the sports world is headed—what’s likely to stay the same, what will shift&#8230;and what’s due a major overhaul? 
Just as fans are returning to stadiums for live sporting events, e-sports arenas and virtual sporting events in the metaverse are becoming more commonplace. Rapid innovation is coming to the realm of sports and will only accelerate.
Five key opportunity areas are quickly transforming the sports industry and will last well into the future: redefining the experiential aspects of sports, an increase in female coaching representation, the transition from omnichannel to omniverse, increased fan power, and the gamification of the fitness space. 
Each of the five major trends focused on in this report are backed up by real-world, on-the-ground examples. You’ll also find provocations for innovation in this arena. 
Download frog’s Future of Sports report <a href="https://go.frog.co/future-of-sports-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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Research Team
Courtney Pace 
Colleen Galbraith 
Sam Reitzes 
Candice Chan 
Phillip Johnson 
Susie Kim 
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A vision of the seismic shifts set to impact every facet of the ways we travel, from where we go, to how we go and why.

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The Future of Travel

Five key trends are quickly redefining and reshaping the travel industry and will last well into the future: automation, a wellness-driven focus on tranquility, sustainability, loyalty disruption and the rise of the digital nomad. 
Every facet of the travel experience feels like it’s up for grabs. The global pandemic’s effects on travel are still resonating at both the micro- and macro-levels of every stage of the experience from departure to return.  
This time of tremendous travel upheaval has already brought about a myriad of profound changes. Even with all the shifts the travel and hospitality sector has seen as of late, there are still yet more profound and exciting changes that will be taking the direct flight into our lives. 
Each of the five major trends focused on in this report are backed up by human-focused studies and real world, on-the-ground examples of travel and hospitality organizations diving into these areas with results that will provoke, challenge and inspire. 
Download frog’s Future of Travel report <a href="https://go.frog.co/future-of-travel-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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Research Team
Babitta Sachdev: Associate Strategy Director, frog 
Alexander Howard: Senior Strategist, frog 
Lilli Gluck: Analyst, frog 
Daniel Chen: Analyst, frog 
Tom Abraham: Executive Strategy Director, frog Alum 
Aanoshka Choksi: Strategist, frog Alum

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How digital banking can reinvent itself in a time of disruption

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The New Roles of Engagement

<h3>I. The opportunity</h3>
Traditional financial institutions, prior to the COVID-19 crisis, held a tenuous grip on digital customer engagement. Prompted by necessity more than interest, customer engagement with financial digital platforms has been largely transactional and dispassionate, with the average consumer spending more time checking weather apps than logging on to their personal finance and banking apps.1
COVID-19 has temporarily flipped the script on engagement, presenting a compelling moment for financial institutions to re-examine their digital consumer-engagement strategies.
The combination of increased attention to financial accounts, near-constant connection to our devices, and a longer-term trend of burgeoning engagement in personal finance drives a unique opportunity for institutions to differentiate themselves with a new value proposition for their digital banking platforms.
Today, customers of all types – from retail consumers to small business owners and high-net-worth investors – are hyper-attuned to their financial health, with many struggling to understand the best path forward for their accounts. Billions of people are in lockdown around the world, captively engaged with their digital devices. And both these upticks are happening in the context of a multi-year increase in consumer interest in financial literacy and active investment – almost all of which has taken place outside the purview of traditional financial institutions.
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Increase in subscriber base for the /r/personalfinance sub-reddit since 2015, from 2 million to 14 million3</td>
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Financial Institutions will do well to ride these tailwinds while they are blowing strong.
Doing so requires cultivating a meaningful and differentiated digital-engagement strategy that responds to consumer desire for increased financial resilience, while digging deep into each institution’s unique capabilities.
It means driving real differentiation in the value proposition – and service offerings – to create competitive defensibility. In short, it will require institutions to re-imagine the ongoing roles their financial platforms can play in the everyday lives of customers – today and well after any economic crisis.
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<h3>II. The innovator’s response</h3>
Rethinking customer engagement through digital platforms will require moving beyond being a transactional product facilitator and towards becoming a holistic financial partner for retail, affluent, and small-business customers. This can be done by augmenting the role these platforms play in customers’ lives, imbuing core financial products with additional insights and tools to empower customers’ financial resilience, and which are differentiated and compelling to customers. It requires innovation.
We see three expanded roles financial institutions can embrace within existing digital platforms to sustainably capture heightened engagement in service of building long-term customer relationships.
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<h3>The Empowering Educator</h3>
A financial coach that understands each customer’s unique economic situation (based on personal banking accounts) and supplies the right answers to top-of-mind questions. 
Help customers feel like heroes when they think they’re financially inadequate.</td>
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<h3>The Agile Advisor</h3>
A mentor that utilizes new communication tools to guide customers on a financial path customized to their economic status, providing enhanced data along the way to meet their unique financial goals. 
Help customers feel in control in a world gone awry.</td>
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<h3>The Proactive Partner</h3>
A long-term ally that supports and empowers customers through up and down markets, prioritizing long-term relationship building over short-term profits. 
Help customers feel supported by the full resources of an institution through all market cycles.</td>
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Of course, there is no one size fits all.
Indeed, long-term defensibility will rely on adapting these roles to be right for each organization&#8217;s ethos and brand, assets and capabilities and, of course, customers.
It will require true innovation to develop a consumer-facing digital program that goes beyond repackaging, fast following digitally native firms, or better CX and CI.
Embracing today’s opportunity to build long-term engagement requires a thoughtful approach to repositioning existing offerings – and to creating the right new adjacent services to seize market opportunities.
Financial institutions can do this through purposeful, agile innovation, iterating through a cycle of experimentation, learning, and building.
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<li role="presentation">Experimentation – apply and test best practices from digitally-fluent fintech companies who have proven adept at communicating empowering and educational messages to their audiences.Inspiration: <a href="https://membership.ellevest.com/newsletter">Ellevest’s weekly newsletters</a>, for example, build subscribers’ financial literacy with actionable insights on investing and saving that reflect the ups and the downs of the market, delivered in the style and perspective of an Empowering Educator. These insight-driven emails serve as a business-development tool for Ellevest to attract new investors.</li>
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Learning – analyze the performance and customer response from your experiments to modify and evolve new offerings that better suit specific needs and interests.
Inspiration: Personal Capital’s free financial tools enable users to view their assets across multiple banking accounts, with the company layering in Agile Advisor insights learned from aggregate consumer behavior patterns. In turn, the company is gaining deep consumer insight that can be used to inform new product and service offerings.</li>
<li>Building – develop in-house capabilities to design responsive and empathetic information offerings wrapped around your core products to increase daily engagement for customers who will increasingly demand a more transparent and convincing value proposition post-crisisInspiration: Apple’s product ecosystem consistently (over)delivers on customer expectations; two decades into creating devices omnipresent in our lives, Apple is now leveraging that credibility to break into banking, with the Apple Card. In turn, Apple is adding consumers’ spend data to its long list of consumer insights.</li>
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Leading with financial empowerment and following with actionable data and insights built on familiar digital platforms can help financial institutions become beacons of light amidst economic storms, capturing customer mindshare and trust that can outlive the current crisis.
To help initiate your pivot to a new model of customer engagement, F212 has developed a series of thought-starters at the intersection of expanded roles for the financial institution and consumer types.
For retail consumers, how might we&#8230;?
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<td style="padding: 20px 10px 35px;" width="70%">Reclaim mindshare by providing easily digestible insights on federal tax updates, how to manage debt (e.g. student loan debt, mortgages), and navigating credit score impacts resulting from COVID. 
Ex. Automated mobile prompts with actionable recommendations based on monthly direct-deposit data and debit-card usage.</td>
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<td style="padding: 20px 10px 35px;" width="70%">Drive financial self-empowerment via access to behavioral data (e.g. savings, spending, investing) of comparable peer groups. 
Ex. Digitally accessible peer benchmarks based on age, income, and region with customized insights on how to adjust/catch-up to financial objectives.</td>
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<td style="padding: 20px 10px 35px;" width="70%">Present updated financial offerings based on a customer’s economic well-being to offer the right product at the right time for the right purpose. 
Ex. An online portal that utilizes customer data to present curated product offerings as needs change.</td>
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<h3>For HNW consumers, how might we&#8230;?</h3>
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<td style="padding: 20px 10px 35px;" width="70%">Provide proactive tactical insights on how customers can protect or strengthen portfolio assets during periods of increased market volatility. 
Ex: Pop-up scenario analyses to help customers understand historic performance of their specific asset-allocation mix.</td>
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<td style="padding: 20px 10px 35px;" width="70%">Highlight average asset-allocation mixes of comparable peer groups to help customers assess how far ahead (or behind) they are on their investment journey. 
Ex. Proactive prompts help clients take action to reallocate assets across risk/return preferences impacted by sudden shocks.</td>
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<td style="padding: 20px 10px 35px;" width="70%">Digitally connect customers to top wealth advisors and comparable peers to identify new wealth-generating opportunities. 
Ex. Exclusive social platform to share unique investment and JV opportunities and thought leadership.</td>
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<h3 dir="ltr">For small business consumers, how might we&#8230;?</h3>
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<td style="padding: 20px 10px 35px;" width="70%">Inform SBCs on ways to proactively monitor and manage their liquidity across personal and business finances. 
Ex: Modify common account interfaces for small-business customers to run scenario analyses and drawdowns using personal account data and expected business capital commitments.</td>
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<td style="padding: 20px 10px 35px;" width="70%">Support SBCs through the multi-phase defense, mitigation, and growth planning cycle required by the current crisis to optimize for cash flow and longer-term growth objectives. 
Ex. Leverage and adapt corporate client advice on navigating the COVID crisis to formulate short-form insights for small-business planning.</td>
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<td style="padding: 20px 10px 35px;" width="70%">Design engagement opportunities that reinforce SBC’s growth ambitions and owners’ CEO role vs. approaching them as another retail customer. 
Ex. Facilitate an accessible digital concierge that provides support to SBCs, e.g. with credit-card fee and loan deferrals, and help customers evaluate pivot and growth opportunities for their businesses.</td>
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<h3 dir="ltr" role="presentation">III. The Fahrenheit 212 approach: money, magic, mechanics</h3>
At Fahrenheit-212 our approach to new growth opportunities pairs business acumen with customer empathy and is layered with a critical understanding of technology. It’s where the money and magic meets the mechanics. This approach has consistently delivered predictable, sustainable growth for our clients for more than 15 years. We are ready to help you accelerate your digital platforms to deliver on consumer expectations as partners in financial resilience.
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SOURCES 
1 &#8211; deVere Group analysis, 2020 
2 &#8211; Reddit data through April 2020

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