Customer service (CS) platforms have been adopting conversational AI at incredible rates as consumers expect a higher quality customer experience. Many of these platforms are rushing to break into the market and boost sales but are making some basic mistakes in the process. The focus for newly emerging technologies has been predominantly on user interface (UI) and aesthetics rather than functionality and performance.

From product recommendations to one-on-one personal shopping and customer support to order management, the use cases for ecommerce chatbot solutions are endless. This is why the eCommerce industry was one of the first industries to embrace chatbots and conversational AI virtual assistants, and why it’s more important than ever for companies in this industry to deploy the best eCommerce chatbots to assist their customers.

Conversational AI is growing more prevalent every day. Not just in business, but for entertainment purposes as well. Whenever computers have conversations with humans, there’s a lot of work engineers need to do to make the interactions as human-like as possible.

A terrific customer experience (CX) is vital across industries and organizations both large and small – from retail to travel and telecommunications. Because, today, it’s pretty competitive out there, customer preferences and loyalties are shifting, and choices abound. Yet just how great of an impact can it have on companies and their customers? As solid proof that CX is bigger and bolder than ever, we compiled a list of 22 eye-opening customer experience statistics.