Funnel Stage: Awareness

Customer Tech Support for Turkeys Goes AI This Thanksgiving

Everything else around this Thanksgiving in the US, and Black Friday around the world, seems to revolve around AI this year, so why not the humble tradition of cooking a turkey? Ignoring the maniacs dunking frozen birds in boiling oil, this...

Hertz Car Rentals Highlights the Success of Its Customer Experience Revamp

Hertz was talking through its latest financial results recently. And a good chunk of the earnings call was taken up revisiting the US car rental company’s customer experience improvement efforts. The company hit revenue of $2.5 billion in the third...

What Companies Are Changing the Game for Black Friday?

According to the emails flooding into the CXM press release box, this year Black Friday is all about AI. Perhaps with a smattering of scam dodging, sales channel surge-preparedness and sifting through loads of SMS messages, depending on the vendor....

Five9 Launches New Genius AI Innovations at its CX Summit to Accelerate Agentic CX

While the UK arm of Five9 was busy chatting to CXM at Contact Centre Expo. The US wing was running its live event at Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee, and a virtual Five9 CX Summit for those at distance. Alongside...

Contact Centre Expo Roundup: Blending AI and People Skills

After a hectic couple of days, Contact Centre Expo from London’s ExCel Arena has come to a end. From running around the floor, a welcome feeling given the freezing weather outside, bagging key vendor interviews, and gathering insights and trends...

Contact Centre Expo 25 Takes Off With A Strong AI Vibe

Excel, London is host to today’s (Wednesday 19th November) “Contact Centre Expo, co-located with Customer Experience Expo UK” event to give it its full name. The show is also on tomorrow if you fancy getting down to explore the latest...

Windows 11 Heads to the Agentic AI Future

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 event is running this week with plenty of news across the company’s massive business software footprint. But back at the traditional heart of the company, the Windows OS is also changing. Windows 10 recently ended its working life...

London Luton Airport Boosts Career Pathways for the Next Generation

London Luton Airport has been doing a star turn at recent customer experience awards events. The hard-working airport CX team took home Bronze for Best Customer-Centric Culture at last week’s International Customer Experience Awards. And at the recent UK Customer Experience...

Report Roundup: CX Vendors Cite Contextual Intelligence and Change Resistance as Key Trends for 2026

Tis the season for tech types, big brands and software planners to drag a crystal ball out and have a peek into their roadmap and conceptual futures. Personally, I wish they’d give it rest, so we could all have a...

The AI Bubble and What It Could Mean For the Customer Experience Market

The rush to build and deliver AI from tech giants, OS providers, customer experience vendors and the endless me-too players is a natural cause for business concern. But is it creating a tech-threatening bubble? The huge amounts of electrical energy,...