Tag: Communications

Sinch and Authvia turn messaging into a checkout lane

What if paying a bill was as easy as replying “yes” to a text? That’s the future Sinch and Authvia are rolling out across North America with a new partnership that puts mobile payments directly into messaging threads. Announced today, the...

Chatty customers? Oracle and Infobip now made it easier to keep up

To keep up with the rising demand for instant, seamless communication, Infobip has deepened its ties with Oracle, promising businesses a faster route to global conversations via channels like WhatsApp, RCS, and SMS. The move centres on a new Omnichannel Messaging...

GoTo Connect supercharges SMB communication with over 100 new features

GoTo has rolled out more than 100 new enhancements to its flagship product, GoTo Connect. Designed with small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in mind, these updates aim to streamline communication workflows, harness the power of artificial intelligence, and centralise all...

22% of UK consumers unsubscribe, at least once a week

Call it the great unsubscribe clear out, or just consumers getting fed up with cookie-cutter offers and newsletters! But, over a fifth of Brits now have a regular clean-up of their marketing communications. Fair enough if it’s a newsletter by...

UK workers reveal poor A/V communications holding them back

From poorly-timed bandwidth drops to the curse of meeting fails or individual drop outs, all digital and knowledge workers are feel the pain of poor communications during a meeting. But, we can’t always blame the network or app for a...

How OKRs boost employee experience and engagement

Objectives and key results (OKRs) are essentially a goal-setting framework. In companies like Google and LinkedIn, teams and individuals have used this framework to set challenging, ambitious goals with measurable results. OKRs consist of an ‘objective’ that is a clearly defined...

Are CDPs the new prince charming of DCX?

In the early days of the digital, everything was simple. We managed our work with websites, basic customer information, and a few marketing tools. But like all fairy tales, this one came to an end. Over time, business got more...

RCS set to quadruple by 2029, driving billions in revenue

Research by Infobip predicts that Rich Communication Services (RCS) traffic will experience a fourfold increase over the next five years. According to data from tech analyst Omdia, RCS messaging, comprising both Application to Person (A2P) and Person to Person (P2P)...

The internet has made connection a whole new conversation 

As a Gen Z-er born in 1999, I’ve been online and with a phone in my hand for over half of my life. I got a non-internet flip phone just to text my parents and play Tetris at age 9,...

Millennials and Gen Zers hate using the phone — what does that mean for customer and employee experience?

I got my son his first phone when he started secondary school, so he would’ve been nearly 11. We justified our decision by saying he needed one to call us in case of an emergency. Five years later, and we’re opening...