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A Run On The Bank: Lack Of Headline Failures Hasn’t Changed Consumer Attitudes

David Hoffman December 12, 2024
When Silicon Valley, Signature and First Republic failed last year four out of five US online consumers knew about it. This year, bank failures have been less visible. Find out why and what to expect in the future.
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Is Your Bank Ready For What’s Next In Mobile?

Peter Wannemacher December 4, 2024
Our newly published research into people’s mobile banking needs, expectations, and behaviors surfaced 10 emerging must-have features and 10 emerging differentiators in mobile banking experiences.

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Meet Forrester’s New Principal Analyst Covering Loyalty Marketing, John Pedini

Emily Collins November 18, 2024
In 2025, we expect consumer usage of loyalty programs to grow amid declines in overall brand loyalty. Though loyalty programs offer the rewards that price-conscious consumers crave, companies struggle to inspire emotional loyalty across various tactics aimed at improving retention. Marketers need a loyalty strategy that appropriately balances transactional incentives with an understanding of what […]
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US And Canadian 2024 Net Promoter Score℠ Results: Another Year Of Decline

Pete Jacques October 31, 2024
Forrester recently published Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) rankings for brands in the United States and Canada. As part of our annual Customer Experience Benchmark Survey, we surveyed 98,363 consumers in the United States and 43,324 Canadian consumers, asking about their likelihood to recommend brands.
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CX Platforms For Healthcare Transform Engagement From Transactional To Trustworthy: Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™

Arielle Trzcinski September 23, 2024
Healthcare providers and health insurers are exhausted from point-solution fatigue. Narrow focus on the “digital front door” in healthcare has yielded some success on customer acquisition but left much to be desired on the trust frontier. To earn trust, healthcare organizations (HCOs) must create value with customers. To create value, HCOs need to curate personalized […]
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Not-So-Open Skies: Southwest Makes Historic Change

Dipanjan Chatterjee July 30, 2024
As Southwest navigates financial turbulence, there are lessons from companies on aligning brand experience with business realities.
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Overall Canada Customer Experience Quality Drops To A Historic Low

Pete Jacques June 18, 2024
Scores for Canadian companies are at their lowest point since Forrester’s Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) began. Read a few of the key findings from our Canada rankings report.
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Customer Experience Quality In The US Falls To An All-Time Low

Pete Jacques June 17, 2024
US consumers' perceptions of CX quality are now at their lowest point since the inception of the Forrester Customer Experience Index (CX Index™). Read a few of the key findings from our recent report.
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Loyalty Service Providers Supercharge Loyalty Strategies

Mary Pilecki June 3, 2024
The Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Services, Q2 2024 is geared toward helping loyalty marketers vet the right service provider for their brand. Read a few of the takeaways.
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A Match Made In Plastic? Capital One’s Quest To Acquire Discover

Peter Wannemacher May 20, 2024
Capital One’s plan to acquire Discover will change the shape of the financial services landscape (though not the fundamental forces that drive growth and success — but more on that later). To help you understand the implications of the proposed merger, Forrester took a deep dive into our research and data (full report for clients […]
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50/50: Private Label Is Coming For You

Dipanjan Chatterjee April 2, 2024
Private-label products are increasing in popularity as prices soar. Brands should be worried — find out why in this blog post.
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Can AI Improve Your Loyalty Program?

Mary Pilecki March 26, 2024
Learn about the potential of predictive AI — and, now, generative AI — in enhancing loyalty programs and strategies.
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Discover The Future Of Boundless Experiences At CX Summit North America 2024

Rick Parrish March 11, 2024
Join us in June to learn how to harness the power of humans and AI to deliver differentiated experiences that drive loyalty and growth.
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50/50: Gratuity Has Reached A Tipping Point

Dipanjan Chatterjee February 22, 2024
Tipping fatigue is growing as automatic prompts on digital points of sale proliferate. Find out the consumer sentiment on this hot topic.
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If You Want Customer Loyalty, You Need A Value Exchange

Mary Pilecki February 13, 2024
I regularly have discussions with clients who want to create a loyalty program. But when we dig deeper into their approach, their answers to critical questions often indicate that the client hasn’t fully considered the implications of a program: Many brands jump into a structured loyalty program (the tactic) before they have defined the strategy […]
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Consumer Spending 2024: What It Means For Your Brand

Dipanjan Chatterjee February 7, 2024
2023 was a confusing year: The consumers blew cold, and the economy blew hot. The recession-to-be didn’t materialize, and the economic outlook wasn’t half as bad as consumers would have you believe. Yet, notes from the post-pandemic blues keep wafting in the air no matter the macroeconomic drumbeat. This year, the economy is headed for […]
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2023 Canada Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) Rankings: Industries Lose Gains Made In 2022

Pete Jacques January 17, 2024
Forrester just published The Canada Net Promoter Rankings, 2023 report, which includes the Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) and industry rank for 100 brands across nine industries. We asked over 39,000 Canadian consumers in our annual Customer Experience Benchmark Survey about their likelihood to recommend brands that they interacted with in the past 12 months, using the standard NPS […]
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If It’s January, It Must Be Time For CES 2024

Dipanjan Chatterjee January 2, 2024
What will be the three biggest themes to watch out for at CES 2024? Find out in this preview of the upcoming event in Las Vegas.
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Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) US Benchmarks, 2023: Fewer Brands Show Improvement

Pete Jacques December 29, 2023
New analyses from Forrester’s 2023 Customer Experience Benchmark Study reveals that subdued customer advocacy continued in 2023, as fewer brands have significant improvements and more brands have significant drops in Net Promoter Score℠ (NPS) compared to 2022.
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One Game To Rule Them All: Sports And Fandom In America

Dipanjan Chatterjee December 9, 2023
It’s not often that soccer and the United States are spoken of in the same breath. But a diminutive Argentinian possessing outsized wizardry changed all of that. Lionel Messi put US Major League Soccer on the world map, and Apple brought the games into American living rooms. On Saturday, December 9, it all comes to […]
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