Tag: CX news

This Week in CX: Inbox Rage, Prime Day Panic & CX Hubris

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news.This week, we’ve explored Gen Z’s complex relationship with email, the surge of AI-driven scams targeting Prime Day shoppers, and innovative customer service breakthroughs from GCXA winners, such...

Prime Day Turns Risky as AI Scams Flood the Internet

As Prime Day 2025 approaches, a new report from McAfee is sounding the alarm on the growing wave of artificial intelligence-driven scams targeting eager online shoppers. According to McAfee’s Global Prime Day Scams Study, cybercriminals have launched over 36,000 fake...

This Week in CX: How to Lose a Customer in 10 Seconds

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news.This week, we’ve explored everything from the hidden cost of poor accessibility and how conflict avoidance is quietly killing team dynamics, to Sephora’s retail glow-up with Lyft.We’re also...

This Week in CX: Late Payments, Lousy Loyalty, and CX Gold

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news.This week, we’ve explored the bold, the surprising, and the overdue in customer experience – from Wizz Air’s “pay to stay behind” strategy and the UK’s instant payment...

This Week in CX: From Inbox to Espresso — AI Is Taking Over

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news.This week, we’ve explored how agentic AI like Freshworks’ Freddy is transforming customer service, the rise of AI-written messages and RCS communication, and how companies like Starbucks are...

This week in CX: Hidden Costs, Smart Conversations & Consumer Pushback

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news.This week, we’ve explored the rise of RCS and conversational commerce and retail’s biggest blind spots—from price hikes that risk loyalty to the hidden costs of poor scheduling...

 USCXA™️ 25 Winners Announcement   

The USCXA™️ ’25 Build-up to the Awards and Awards Ceremony took place yesterday, on June 4th. It brought together top customer experience initiatives across the US and marked a day of joy and celebration.This year’s edition of the USCXA™️ witnessed...

This week in CX: Gen Z, Pharma Innovation & Beauty Retail Warnings

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news.This week, we’ve explored how Gen Z rethinks workplace communication, why beauty shoppers feel overwhelmed, Pfizer’s new CX metric for pharma reps, and the pitfalls of poor personalisation.We’re...

Grammarly’s $1B bet, AI surveillance risks, and travel retail’s digital lift

Grammarly secures $1B in revenue-linked deal to fuel growthGrammarly has secured a $1 billion nondilutive investment from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund to bolster sales and marketing while preserving its $13B valuation. Unlike traditional equity funding, this deal ties repayments...

This week in CX: when bots break rules and brands break trust

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news.This week, we’ve explored how AI agents are posing new identity security risks, the fallout from Adidas’s customer data breach via a third-party vendor, and the growing mistrust...