Tag: Customer engagement

Social Media Isn’t Fun Anymore. What Does That Mean for Brands?

Social media is no longer the guaranteed engagement engine it once was. Sure, many (usually younger) people are still using it to discover and buy things, but the initial thrill social media offered before has faded. New research from GWI for...

8×8 Makes the Case for Frictionless CX at Contact Centre Expo

At this year’s Contact Centre Expo in London, 8×8 began by laying out a simple premise: customers expect conversations that carry across channels seamlessly, without losing context or momentum. The session, “Frictionless by Design: Modernising Customer Experience with CPaaS”, was led...

The Rise of the Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Contact Center: Building Resilience Beyond Single-Cloud Dependency

In October 2025, thousands of contact centers faced a real nightmare head-on. Phones rang, dashboards froze, chatbots blinked out, all because somewhere, deep inside a hyperscaler’s data center, a DNS misfire took the world down with it. The October 2025...

RCS in CX: How RCS Business Messaging Pays Off for Customer Experience Leaders

Remember when texting a company felt like sending a note into the void? It all started with SMS: short, boxy, but dependable. Somehow, that simple ping became the backbone of customer communication before anyone realized it. Then MMS added pictures. Then...

Achieving True Customer Centricity in 2026: The Playbook for CX-First Brands

A few years ago, customer centricity was something every company claimed to be, but not something most proved. It meant smiling more, sending a survey, maybe adding “customer-first” to your values page. But the game has changed. Today, customer centricity...

The Complete Guide to Collecting Customer Feedback and Turning It into Action

Here’s the funny thing about customer experience. Companies spend huge amounts trying to understand customers who are already spelling everything out for them. It’s all right there in reviews, chat transcripts, post-support comments, and inbox messages. The problem isn’t a...

How EXP KSA is Redefining the Experience Movement in the Middle East

Featuring insights from Mohamed Debouk, CEO of New Metrics Saudi Arabia has entered a defining phase in its transformation journey. One where experience has become central to how organizations deliver value, earn trust, and drive growth. That transformation took center stage at EXP KSA,...

Beyond AHT and NPS: The Customer Experience Metrics That Actually Matter in 2026

Customers don’t compare brands by category anymore. They compare every experience to the smoothest one they’ve had lately. Maybe it was an instant refund, a chatbot that actually helped, or a quick call answered by someone who already knew the...

Holiday Shoppers Don’t Trust the Hype

Nearly 7 in 10 shoppers (69%) confessed they’ve sent back items bought during major sales events, according to Akeneo’s latest PX Pulse survey on holiday shopping behaviour.  According to the shoppers, poor product quality, confusing or missing details, and misleading images...

TikTok (US Version) Could Save Marketing Access to Gen Z

TikTok has been the golden child of social media for the last couple of years, doubling from around 750 million users in 2022 to 1.5 billion in 2024. As a marketer’s dream, especially with the decline of Twitter/X, everything seemed...