Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v].

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

Loyalty 45

Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs 2018 45

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Independent of individual program achievements, the most important development across the industry has not been in individual technological triumphs, but a hastening structural shift in how brands understand and approach the purpose of their loyalty programs. This effort is a marked improvement. Kudos to them.

Magazine 49

Magazine Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs 49

Currency Alliance

JULY 24, 2018

His chosen airline made him so mad that he wrote a song about them, which has since been viewed over 18m times on YouTube ( [link] ). The anecdotes revealed some interesting themes, and they should make for useful learnings for airline and hotel brands. The airline put us up in a hotel, as you’d expect, but managed it horrifically.

Travel 40

Travel Airlines Customer Experience Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Nobody in loyalty could have missed The Times’ headline in October, about the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) proposal to start taxing frequent flyer programs (FFPs), or even to shut them down, under the assumption that they increase flying. Nonetheless, the legacy loyalty points bank kept them from innovating more quickly.

Loyalty 40

Loyalty 2020 Hotels Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating?

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Hotels Airlines 40

Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

The sea-change in marketing technology is evident in the Gartner CMO survey, which tracked spending across all marketing disciplines: …most of which are rooted in martech solutions, younger than loyalty program management technologies, but all united by the common need to share customer data and use it to drive results.

Loyalty 58

Loyalty Banking Loyalty Programs Brands 58