Loyalty Wired

In this episode, we look at the eventual demise of the physical payment cards and the implications for issuer loyalty. Plus, Email personalization and Loyalty Gripes.

In this podcast we explore how loyalty professionals can get started using AI at work. To helps us with this I am joined by David Rose of Papa Johns and Ed Child of Costa Coffee who have studied the subject and offer real practical advice for how we can all start using AI to make our lives easier and more productive.

A veritable grab bag of loyalty goodness with a look at fashion loyalty, TikTok Shop, and Virgin Atlantic’s move to dynamic reward pricing.

Airlines facing unprecedented pressure from shareholders, finance teams, disgruntled members, and the government have devalued their loyalty programs. If this trend happens, will the entire airline loyalty ecosystem collapse?

In response to the closure of several high profile loyalty programs and criticism from authors like Byron Sharp, we explore the case for loyalty backed with evidence. With special guests, Tom Hill, Jessie Stuart, Dicken Doe and Phil Gunter.

This week we devote our entire episode to one of the hottest topics in customer loyalty. In this featured segment, Rick Ferguson speaks to an all-star roster of experts to answer an existential question: If marketing personalization is so important, then why aren’t more companies better at it?

In this special segment, Rick Ferguson stands inside of Starbucks’ original Pike Place Market store in Seattle and asks: Can Starbucks leverage its loyalty program and its vaunted digital wizardry to recapture its corporate soul? Plus, we dive into research on Australian customer loyalty and chat with the VP of Marketing for Canada's Air Miles Reward Program.

In this podcast we examine the growth of TikTok Shop, with Mark Ross of Konsort Social, and ask if social enterprise platforms could allow loyalty programs to turn top customers into a meaningful sales channel.

A decade ago, the global loyalty landscape was ruled by big multi-merchant coalition program operators. Today, most of those operators are gone. Rick Ferguson convenes our Loyalty Roundtable to discuss the past, present, and future of coalition loyalty. Plus, we talk to a loyalty player in the legal cannabis market and explore the changes to the Qantas frequent-flyer program.

In the saturated world of hotel loyalty, how can you make an impact in best-customer relationships? Rick Ferguson chats with Sonesta Hotels' Kevin McCarthy about the opportunities and challenges of relaunching a loyalty program in a crowded marketplace. Also, Rick debuts the launch of the Empire State Building Ambassador program and Iain Pringle explores the explosive growth of retail media with SG-Retail's Steve Gray.