Author: Sandra Radlovacki

AI Can Help Customers Shop but Flexible Payments Help Them Stay

Holiday shopping always reflects the mood of the moment, and this year that mood is split between curiosity and caution. Shoppers are leaning into technology in ways that would have seemed unlikely only a few seasons ago — asking AI for...

Meet the Winners of International Customer Experience Awards 2025

The International Customer Experience Awards 2025 delivered one of the most dynamic ceremonies in the programme’s history. Hundreds of CX leaders gathered to recognise work that didn’t just improve customer interactions, but completely transformed the way organisations think, operate and...

Amazon Accuses Perplexity’s AI of Shopping on Its Site Without Permission

Amazon’s legal threat against Perplexity AI has become the first major test of what happens when artificial intelligence starts handling the shopping experience for consumers. The tension erupted after Amazon sent a cease-and-desist letter accusing Perplexity’s Comet assistant of unauthorised automated...

The Case for Human Judgment in AI-Powered Customer Experience

Customer service leaders have spent years chasing automation as the answer to scale and cost pressures. Despite rapid advances in AI, the customer experience data tells a different story, one that shows where technology stops and human judgment must step...

Trust Decides Where Patients Go

Patients have changed from passive recipients of care to informed consumers making deliberate choices. According to Healthcare Consumer Experience 2025, Press Ganey’s latest report, the healthcare consumer experience has become a strategic discipline built on trust. People want safety, simplicity...

Medallia Helps Northumbrian Water Elevate Customer Experience for 4 Million Users

Northumbrian Water Group has partnered with Medallia on a project aiming to modernise how the utility company listens to, understands and serves its 4 million customers. Northumbrian Water provides supply and sewerage services to 2.7 million households in the North East...

New Report Reveals Why AI Isn’t Solving Retail Marketing Bottlenecks

Despite widespread adoption, marketers report that growing content demands are outpacing their ability to produce and distribute campaigns through AI. Does the issue lie in how companies are using AI or the technology itself? Typeface’s new Signal Report: Retail Edition finds...

Is Overcommunication the New CX Crisis?

The constant ping of offers, updates, and “urgent” alerts may be doing brands more harm than good. Every brand wants a piece of your attention, but most people have already tuned out. According to CSG’s 2026 State of the Customer Experience...

AWS and OpenAI Sign Record $38B Cloud Deal, the Largest in AI History

OpenAI is moving a major chunk of its computing muscle to Amazon Web Services, marking one of the largest cloud deals ever signed in artificial intelligence. The $38 billion, multi-year partnership gives OpenAI access to AWS’s newest supercomputing infrastructure and...

Zoom Leverages NVIDIA to Put Enterprise AI on the Fast Track

Zoom is stepping up its AI game by teaming up with NVIDIA to make enterprise AI faster, smarter and more adaptable to the way teams actually work. The latest iteration of Zoom AI Companion introduces a hybrid language model framework...