A new competitive factor has emerged in today's widely ramified brand landscape, which has in fact become one of the decisive factors for consumers when choosing an offer - the user experience. The choices between different providers with similar services are simply countless. Consequently, customers feel less and less likely connected and loyal to a brand. It is simply no longer the quality of a product that determines success or failure in business, but emotions, which explains, for instance, why Nike does not advertise its sporting goods, but the feeling that everyone can deploy their full potential, or Airbnb does not provide housing, but worldwide connectivity and the feeling of being at home anywhere in the world.

Leading global IT and business solutions provider, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced findings from its global study titled, Winning in a Business 4.0™ World, which benchmarks large companies in their Business 4.0 growth and transformation journeys by mapping their adoption of four critical business behaviours: driving mass personalisation, creating exponential value, leveraging ecosystems, and embracing risk.

For marketing projects, customers or prospects are typically segmented into groups, such as by gender or geographic region, and automated routes are built from those segments. A really personalized approach, however, isn’t possible that way, only recommendations, offers or purchase proposals based on a cluster. Well, not only does this practice have high waste circulation, it regularly upsets customers when, for example, they are offered things they have long since bought.

2018 was a big year for KPop, and with a new global record of 5.3 billion Tweets last year, Twitter continues to show that it's a great place to find out what's happening with KPop and to talk about it with KPop fans around the world. The top 20 countries that tweeted the most about KPop in 2018 have been:

The leading AI-powered social media marketing platform Socialbakers released a comprehensive report at the end of 2018 a comprehensive report that offers detailed information about the state of social media engagement and advertising, as well as emerging themes for the year ahead. The trend report dives into demographics and brand trends, advertising effectiveness, engagement best practices, and emerging trends involving influencer marketing and privacy and security.

We all seem to love videos, considering the growing demand for more authentic and personalized video content. That's why around 6 months ago Hubspot started to provide marketing, distribution and customer service departments with tools that allow them to quickly and easily create personalized videos that are almost reminiscent of Instagram stories. The new features range, for instance, from creating own videos to video hosting or embedding calls-to-action and forms in videos.

Qualtrics, the leader in experience management, announced the launch of ExpertReviewTM – Response Quality. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), this new solution empowers market researchers and insights professionals to weed out poor quality feedback, allowing organisations to make critical business decisions with more accurate data.

Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science, information engineering, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data. In a nutshell, NLP gives machines the ability to read and understand human language. A sufficiently powerful natural language processing system manages to enable natural-language user interfaces and the acquisition of knowledge directly from human-written sources, such as newswire texts. Some straightforward applications of natural language processing include information retrieval, text mining, question answering and machine translation. 

6 expert tips on how dealers are getting heard by Google

Although Google Voice Search is still in its infancy, it is no longer a dream of the future. Experts predict that in a few years, voice-based search will have revolutionized online user behavior. But, because there are still only a few dealers aligning their marketing strategy in this area, marketers should now take their chance and secure their presence in the "market of the future" through SEO measures.

Fifteen years after being founded in Mark Zuckerberg's college room, Facebook has become a world power with unprecedented opportunities to reach out to its users in a targeted manner - be it advertising or opinion-making.

Qualtrics, a leader in experience management, announced a series of innovations that will continue to dramatically accelerate the customer experience (CX) industry with a fundamentally different approach: with Qualtrics Customer Experience™, now known as Qualtrics CustomerXM™, brands can build programs that are more personal and engage customers on their own terms, proactively surface insights and help activate an entire organization around CX.

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) allow to send push notifications or provide offline access to an app's content, just like native apps do. But unlike native apps, content in PWAs is accessible to search engines, so that the same online marketing strategies could be used for PWAs just like for traditional websites.

Prof. Dr. Peter Gentsch, a German management consultant and serial entrepreneur specialized in digital management and data science, is dealing intensively with the topics of personalization and bots in his interesting article "Chatbots for personalized dialogues”, where he pointed out in many places that these topics aren’t actually new.

Hootsuite, the leader in social media management, released in collaboration with We Are Social, the eighth annual report, Digital 2019, which examines digital trends and social media use across 230 countries and territories, uncovered that more than one million new people go online every day, and that 45% of the world— nearly 3.5 billion people annually—are logging in to their favorite social platforms. That’s a near 9% released increase year-over-year despite growing concerns of fake news, fake followers and data privacy in 2018.