Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

During 2023, brands will make it easier for more customers to realize value from loyalty program participation. This will help them engage many more customers – particularly in the mid-to-long tail: previously not seen as a valuable target for loyalty marketing, but now recognized as a leading source of incremental revenue.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In December 2018, we published what we consider will be the Top 10 Trends in loyalty marketing during 2019. Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers).

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Loyalty Strategy 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.

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Loyalty Loyalty Programs Gamification Airlines 49

Currency Alliance

APRIL 26, 2018

But while excited boardrooms spend hours brainstorming ways “to do something with blockchain”, companies risk distracting themselves from real, present opportunities to succeed with loyalty in other ways. For the consumer, this should mean more valuable rewards, and the flexibility to spend loyalty points more easily, in more places.

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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.

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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2019

Last December, a McKinsey report said that 2018 represented… “…a tipping point from thinking, talking about, and planning for future mobility to implementing it.…when Consumers thought about cars and mass transit, while manufacturers of transportation assets thought about market share. It was a profitable discovery.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Airlines 56

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. Most loyalty programs still retain largely the same design as 20 years ago. The key to getting customers once again actively involved in loyalty program participation is through providing greater liquidity.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app.

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Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. They did this by embarking on ‘no-brainer’ partnerships: where the customer journey is so linear (think airline + car rental) or the customer frequency so high (think grocery store + fast-casual dining) that a brand partnership creates obvious value.

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