Topic / Theme: Customer Experience (CX)

Black (Bleak?) Friday Fails to Shine! The Sad Truth and A Few High Points

The term Black Friday has a long and depressing history. And recent highly-repetitive sales efforts, plus overloading the concept have helped eradicate consumers’ sense of value or seasonal cheer. While some brands have made positive changes, digging for good news...

Amazon AWS re:Invent Kicks Off With An Explosive AI CX Show

Amazon will dominate the news this week, with a full four-days of AI, CX and cloud stories out of the AWS re:Invent event. After some early healthcare agentic-powered news, the massive AWS event kicked off for a blizzard of news...

Customer Experience Experts Highlight Their Relatable TV Heroes and Individual CX Moments of 2025

We’ve already taken a look at the technology that could impact CX in 2026, but let’s slow up for a more personal view from our line-up of tame experts’ CX highlights of this year. Across industry events, awards evenings and...

Consumer Discovery Goes Real-Time At Tech for Retail, Paris

The Tech for Retail show hit Paris this week, at Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles. The show offered a close-up look at what’s changing in the drive for stronger in-store and online customer experiences. At the event were the usual mix...

The EU Could Follow Australia With a Social Media Under-16 Clampdown Impacting CX

Australia has been in the headlines this week as teenagers go to court to win their social media access back The move comes after the Aussie government passed a law banning under-16s from accessing social services. The country’s Online Safety...

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....

A Judge’s View from the International Customer Experience Awards with Ana Pia Pušić

The recent ICXA final judging and awards presentations were a rollercoaster of emotions and excitement for the finalists, judges as well as the organisers. We’ve already had a look from the perspective of some of the judging panels on the...

Radisson’s Creator Hub Innovates Travel Storytelling

Having picked up the Best Digital Transformation (Over 5,000 Employees) Award at last week’s International Customer Experience Awards, Radisson Hotels is showing the way forward when it comes to the hugely valuable influencer travel market. Creator Hub is a new collaboration...

PayPal+ Delivers Free Loyalty Scheme for UK Online and In-Store Shoppers

Loyalty programs have been around forever, and are regularly tweaked to meet the changing needs of customers. But a major all-new scheme is a rare beast. Enter PayPal with PayPal+, aiming to shake up shopping for UK consumers. The new...