Amperity replaces third-party cookies to drive customer acquisition and ROI

Amperity, an enterprise customer data platform (CDP) for consumer brands, announces a major company milestone of delivering over 10 billion unified customer profiles per day to ad platforms, representing more than $USD300 billion in digital ad spend annually.

Through its industry-leading ad connectors and patented unified customer profiles, brands such as Alaska Airlines, Brooks Running, and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, have achieved match rates as high as 85% on key channels,...

23 May 2023 | Big Data

Just 1% of consumers do not utilise subscription shopping services

Despite cost of living pressures, 86% of UK shoppers have increased, or at least maintained, their spending on subscriptions over the last year, while 78% intend to ringfence or increase their subscription spending in the months ahead.

Only 1% in the UK and across all markets surveyed now do not consider themselves to be subscribers in any form.

These are some of the findings of a study into subscription shopping trends to date by OnePoll and online travel firm eDreams...

16 May 2023 | Commerce

How the metaverse will impact customer service

Customer service workers.

The customer service sector has changed dramatically in the last few years, with the growing popularity of ecommerce and social media being a driving communicator between brands and customers. With technology advancements occurring regularly, it is no wonder companies are finding new and wonderful ways to connect with their customer bases.

Once advancement is the rise in the metaverse - augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). From virtual learning environments to 3D...

4 May 2023 | Customer Experience

Shoppers turn to apps for rewards due to cost-of-living crisis

Mobile app experience company Airship has released findings from a global survey that highlight the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on Britain’s consumer shopping behaviours.

Faced with soaring inflation, which reached 10.4% in February, 80% of consumers in the U.K. now regularly use their smartphones to access stored loyalty cards and coupons while shopping in physical stores, compared to 79% for the U.S., 73% for France and 72% for...

24 April 2023 | Customer Experience

Retailers feel there are too many channels to effectively sell through

A TV remote control.

Online shopping has never been more convenient for consumers, who have access to a plethora of channels through which to engage with their favourite brands.

However, this same variety is confounding retailers, with 47% saying there are simply too many channels for them to effectively deliver the best sales experience.

This is according to Wunderman Thompson Commerce & Technology’s “Brands don’t fail... eRetail!” report, which found nearly all (94%) retail...

19 April 2023 | Content Marketing

How Playrcart helped Vodafone achieve above average click-through-rates

A Vodafone shop.

The client:

Vodafone Group is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office and global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It predominantly operates services in Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania.

As of January 2023, it owns and operates networks in 21 countries, with partner networks in 47 further countries. Its Vodafone Global Enterprise division provides telecommunications and IT services to...

17 April 2023 | Advertising

8 out of 10 firms investing in customer engagement meet financial goals

Four £20 notes.

Research from customer engagement platform Twilio, has found that investment in customer engagement is a key driver of revenue growth.

Twilio’s fourth annual State of Customer Engagement Report reveals that, amid constrained resources and economic uncertainty, eight out of 10 (81%) companies that invested in customer engagement met their financial goals. In the UK, 94% of companies that invested in digital customer engagement saw revenues grow, with an average increase of...

3 April 2023 | Customer Experience

UK shoppers abandon retailers that charge for returns

More than a quarter (26%) of Brits have switched from a brand they were once loyal to due to the introduction of paid returns, according to the latest research from SAP Emarsys.

The study, released ahead of the Shoptalk retail tradeshow, reveals that 18% of UK consumers actively describe the introduction of returns charges as “unfair”; 13% have even thrown away an unwanted item after failing to return it.

With almost half (49%) of shoppers abandoned a brand they were...

30 March 2023 | Big Data

Braze native WhatsApp messaging helps build customer relationships

Someone using WhatsApp on their phone.

Braze, a customer engagement platform that powers interactions between consumers and the brands, has made native support for messaging channel WhatsApp generally available.

Through this direct integration with WhatsApp, which had more than two billion active users as of 2022, marketers will be able to create, orchestrate, and send WhatsApp campaigns directly from the Braze platform to strengthen customer relationships with context-rich conversational messaging that can drive...

21 March 2023 | Customer Experience

Businesses are losing customers due to disjointed digitisation

Digitisation efforts begun in the pandemic must now be reconciled in light of today’s customer needs, according to the findings of research released by customer engagement platform Twilio.

The study has uncovered how businesses’ digital acceleration in 2020 has led to a wealth of channels that now need to be consolidated into nuanced, personalised customer engagement strategies in response to today’s consumer needs. With customer retention a crucial metric amid economic...

20 March 2023 | Best Practice