One thing modern marketers should do more of is balance the art and science of marketing, Latitude Financial’s Caroline Ruddick says.

Analytics is often thought of as a discipline based in numbers. But Sandra Hogan is taking a very human-centric approach to her role as group head of customer analytics at Origin Energy.

Building your organisation’s data muscle successfully is about keeping consumer data safe, not losing it and being ethical with how you apply it to deliver end-user value.

​AI-powered research, voice-based care instructions, ‘adjacent possible’ marketing principles, augmented reality on farms and eco-storytelling in immersive retail stores – they’re all in a day’s work for the innovation and digital team at The Woolmark Company.

The Reject Shop is launching a new loyalty program and is actively looking to capture data on the shopping habits and category interests of customers as part of ongoing growth strategy efforts.

The launch of Panthers Group's new-look customer loyalty program isn’t just a reflection of the clubs owner's enhanced investment into communications and engagement; it’s also proven a catalyst in aligning internal teams.

Australian consumers don’t care about brand loyalty when shopping, and price is the main factor driving it, according to a new local marketing report.

Leading Australian loyalty membership program, flybuys, has no shortage of data on its millions of members. So when the team started looking for ways to create customer surprise and delight to kick off the 2018 year, it latched onto the idea of turning these vast stores into hyper-personalised content customers could not only engage in, but also learn something about themselves.

The days of quick customer experience wins through digital and mobile innovation are gone and organisations must tackle the more complex task of overhauling their culture in order to find sustainable improvement.

Hyundai Motor Company Australia has accelerated its way from ninth to second position in the ranks of Australian automotive companies for service after overhauling its customer experience approach.

Few companies of the digital era are as synonymous with the concept of great customer service as Zappos. Continuing to keep customers happy is a key focus for the group’s head of customer research, Alex Genov, who is speaking at the forthcoming CX Innovation & Tech Fest in Melbourne.

Adopting AI-based capabilities for social media and text analytics are just the latest examples of how Volkswagen is opening up “customer insights gems” that improve its experience game, its CX leader says.

Nick Hickford’s proudest moment in the past 12 months has been having the Bulla Dairy Foods leadership team presenting the success of its ‘Unfakeable’ campaign to the board.

Unilever’s Paul Connell calls it his “top five” list for modern marketing. And it’s what guides him as the GM and marketing chief of homecare in A/NZ.

Dropbox has unleashed the biggest change to the company’s brand in its 10-year history, and global CMO Carolyn Feinstein is banking the bold repositioning will help eliminate the “grind and mania” that modern workers face and deliver a more ‘collaborative’ work environment.

Sydney-based startup, Hyper Anna, has secured $16 million in funding to fuel a global rollout of 'Anna', a virtual data scientist that taps into business intelligence and delivers real-time insights based on natural language requests.

Australian data analytics company, TEG, has struck an exclusive partnership with Havas Sports & Entertainment in a bid to offer marketers deeper insights into their target audience's purchase behaviour.

Augmented intelligence is a ‘game changer’ for marketers in their ability to predict customer journeys and enhance experiences. That’s according to Bluewolf CMO, Corinne Sklar, who is on a mission to de-mystify a current marketing buzzword - customer journey mapping.

A voice of the customer (VoC) program can be a powerful way marketers can collect customer feedback, mine that feedback for insights, and then incorporate those insights into business decisions - but what happens when there’s just too much data to manage?

The rise of connected, ever-more knowledgeable customers has changed the very nature of modern marketing. In our first New Zealand roundtable, CMO and our event sponsor, Microsoft, brought local marketers and digital leaders together to debate customer-centric marketing, the challenges in orchestrating customer-led change within organisations, and increasingly, how marketing is taking a leading role in product innovation.

EHarmony has seen customer subscriptions and engagement rates leap by double digits after embarking on the biggest bespoke audience segmentation project in its eight-year history in Australia.