Category: Customer Experience

What Consumer Electronics Show 2026 Will Show Us About the Future of CX

As soon as we get back from the New Year break, all bleary eyes will be on Las Vegas where the ever-popular Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will kick off. The massive Consumer Technology Association show highlights the latest in gadgets,...

Customer Experience Attracted More Investment and M&A Activity in 2025

We’ve covered plenty of updates from investment side of the CX and AI worlds this year. But, with a spot of digging into the depths of the venture capital scene, we’ve found many more new and scaling products and services....

The New Playbook for Customer Experience Design: Orchestrate Channels, Design Emotions, Prove Impact

Here’s something most businesses are going to learn fast in 2026: Teams that treat customer experience design as the operating system for their business earn the right to keep customers. When context, policy, and people line up around a single...

Gartner: AI Hasn’t Shrunk CX Workforces, Yet

Amid ongoing debate about whether artificial intelligence will replace frontline service workers, new research from Gartner suggests the situation is far more nuanced. A survey of 321 customer service and support leaders found that only 20% have reduced agent headcount...

AI’s Architects Are Time Magazine’s People of the Year as AGI Rises

As rumoured, and we discussed earlier in the week, Time Magazine has decided not to vote for a person of the year. Instead, it has plumped for AI, or at least the architects of AI. While these folk, featuring the likes...

Oracle’s AI Agents Aim to See Everything Happening in Your Business

During its Q2 2026 earnings call, Oracle described a growing push toward AI agents and their role in helping enterprises use their data more effectively across customer-facing operations. While the call covered cloud revenue, infrastructure expansion and multicloud growth, the...

Dragons’ Den Magnate’s Retail Chains Boost Customer Support With NiCE CXone

UK shoppers are very familiar with the name Theo Paphitis of Dragon’s Den fame. The series, known as Shark Tank in the US, Who Wants to be my (Business) Partner in France, and Cave of Lions in Germany, saw him...

Customer Experience 2025 Events Roundup, and the Big Shows Coming Your Way in 2026

2025 was a busy year for customer experience events. Analyst firms, vendors, experts and end-user markets all welcomed CXM to listen to the great and good speak, and show off the latest software and technology. And we’re revving up for...

easyJet Taps Emplifi to Boost CX

CX and social media marketing platform Emplifi has partnered with easyJet to strengthen the airline’s customer care operations across social media, using AI-powered tools to improve response times and service consistency. The collaboration will see easyJet adopt Emplifi’s customer care platform,...

Inside DVLA’s Quiet AI Revolution

When the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency decided to overhaul its customer-service operation, it did so without fanfare. There was no flashy launch, no breathless tech campaign, no sweeping promises about “reinventing the public sector.” Instead, DVLA embarked on a multi-year...