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WARC Best Practice, June 2019
Explores how the way brands think about customer experience (CX) is changing as they compete hard for customers’ attention in an omni-channel world with more consumer touchpoints.
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WARC Best Practice, March 2019
Explores the current thinking and writing on the subject of customer-centricity, the ethos that places good service and customer-experience at the heart of a brand's strategy.
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John Sills, WARC Best Practice, October 2018
Explores several strategies for companies wishing to utilise customer feedback, so they can make effective, ongoing improvements.
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John Sills, WARC Best Practice, April 2018
Explores the importance of customer experience in creating long-term sustainable success for organisations and how to systematically deliver an experience that is valuable for the customer and the business.
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Jamie Brighton, WARC Best Practice, January 2018
Key tips on delivering effective digital customer experiences, an area of increasing importance as customers are putting less emphasis on the products they buy from brands and more on the experience they receive.
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Stuart Crawford-Browne, WARC Best Practice, July 2016
This article considers best practices for not only providing consumers with products but with experiences that reflect the values, interests, and benefits of the brand in a way that is relevant and engaging.
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Tahaab Rais, Admap, December 2019
The Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia is considered a pivotal moment in a Muslim’s life.
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Low Lai Chow, Event Reports, Spikes Asia, September 2019
FCB Greater China’s Steve Xue and Weltmeister Automobile’s Michael Shi talk about the roadblocks and lessons learnt in the brand’s growth journey at Spikes Asia.
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Low Lai Chow, Event Reports, FUTR Asia Summit, October 2019
Unilever and Domino’s Pizza share some lessons in adapting a global playbook to local rules in a market like Indonesia, during the FUTR Asia Summit in Singapore.
Case Study
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MRS Awards, Finalist, MRS Award for Financial Services Research, 2019
Open Banking, a government agency initiative, developed, launched and scaled Open Banking in the UK using a curated suite of research methodologies to inform customer experience guidelines.
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02 December 2019
Digital platforms are growing ever-more influential and 2020 will see marketers increasingly tasked with building their brands within ecosystems over which they have little or no control, a new WARC report says.
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MRS Awards, Finalist, MRS Award for Insight Management, 2019
Matalan, a fashion and homeware retailer, cut across data to uncover strategic insight into the omnichannel customer journey in the UK, which enabled Matalan to invest strategically in the areas of the business that will have most positive commercial impact.
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MRS Awards, Finalist, MRS Award for Innovation in Data Analytics, 2019
Formula 1, the highest class of single-seater auto racing, developed a robot that created a near-real-time picture of the scale and context of fan activity in the UK, which the brand used to uncover what excites fans most about F1.
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MRS Awards, Finalist, MRS Award for Financial Services Research, 2019
TSB Bank, a bank, used a new measurement tool tailored to retail banking to help senior TSB executives navigate through an IT crisis to a brighter future in the UK.
News
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28 November 2019
Banks’ traditional role is changing as customers expect more of their financial service providers than just products, with the companies able to respond to those changes best prepared for the future; new research sheds light on that dynamic.
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David Tiltman, WARC Webinars, November 2019
David Tiltman, VP of content at WARC, looks at what senior marketers are most excited about and worried by in the year ahead.
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25 November 2019
There are no brands in Australia delivering an excellent customer experience, although the proportion offering a good experience has doubled in the past year, research from Forrester shows.
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WARC Trends, November 2019
WARC's Marketer’s Toolkit 2020 Data Report adopts the STEIP methodology to cover five drivers of change that will affect marketers next year: Society, Technology, Economy, Industry and Policy.
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WARC Trends, November 2019
WARC's Marketer’s Toolkit 2020 adopts the STEIP methodology to cover five drivers of change that will affect marketers next year, built from an annual survey, 10 CMO interviews and WARC analysis.
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WARC Trends, November 2019
Part of WARC's Marketer’s Toolkit 2020, this chapter offers a deep dive into industry trends affecting marketing plans in 2020.
Opinion
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Cathy Taylor, November 2019
This interview is part of the Marketer’s Toolkit 2020. Download the summary report here .
Opinion
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David Tiltman, November 2019
In late 2018, we wrote about what would happen in the next twelve months. WARC’s Head of Content, David Tiltman, looks at how we did ahead of our predictions for 2020.
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18 November 2019
E-commerce is all about creating a frictionless experience to help ease shoppers in and out of the platform, but Alibaba turned that approach on its head for Singles Day, with a “stickiness strategy” to keep people on its sites for longer.
Opinion
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Stephen Whiteside, November 2019
Customer experience is now a vital consideration for strategists . Stephen Whiteside, WARC’s managing editor/reports and news, learned that mastering this discipline requires a fresh understanding of consumers, brand building, and marketing ethics.
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Research on WARC, November 2019
This GroupM report recaps the pre-sale, warm-up and breakout periods of key e-commerce players in China like Tmall and JD, who are seeking market growth from new users, new categories, new consumption occasions, and new content.