The complete guide to SMS

Deep dive into everything you need to know about business SMS and how to use the channel for a range of engaging use cases.

Channel the power of business SMS

SMS has become one of the most widely used channels for business messaging. Being available on every mobile phone worldwide and highly reliable makes it the ideal choice for many B2C communication strategies.

91%

of the global population uses mobile phones in 2023

98%

open rate

95%

of SMS messages are read within 3 minutes

Discover all you need to know about SMS for B2C communication

The future of telco customer value management eBook

Are you ready to revolutionize your telco’s customer engagement strategies and boost profitability? Discover the power of customer experience (CX) management with our comprehensive eBook, “The Future of Telco Customer Value Management.”

This resource will guide you through the transformational journey towards creating win-win scenarios, improving operational performance, and unlocking the true potential of your data with conversational experiences.

CX management to drive customer value management for telcos

In today’s competitive landscape, CX management is paramount for telcos aiming to thrive in the digital era. By focusing on the complete customer lifecycle, you can enhance customer engagement, increase profitability, and drive successful Customer Value Management (CVM). Our eBook delves deep into the strategies and tools necessary to achieve these goals.

Gain valuable insights into key CX topics

Leveraging business intelligence techniques: Discover how powerful analytics tools can optimize insight generation from your existing data, breaking down silos, and creating real-time value across all customer touchpoints.

Unleashing the power of data: Understand why data is a valuable source of customer insights, a key competitive advantage, and a strategic financial asset. Learn how to harness your data effectively to drive meaningful, actionable insights.

Bridging the gap: Despite having abundant data, most telcos struggle to derive meaningful insights. Only a small fraction, approximately 5 percent, are currently leveraging analytics and insight-driven personalization to achieve true competitive advantage and maximize revenue growth. Learn how to join this elite group.

5%

of telcos are unlocking the full potential of analytics and insight-driven personalization to achieve true competitive advantage and maximize revenue growth.

Customer-centric campaigns: Transition away from traditional, business-driven campaigns and communication channels. Explore the concept of insight-driven campaigns that prioritize customer needs and preferences, ultimately satisfying, retaining, and acquiring new customers.

Overhauling customer value management: Discover effective strategies to manage data and behavior insights. Unlock the potential for highly personalized experiences that resonate with your customers on a deeper level.

Embrace the future of customer-centric telco experiences. Download our eBook today and embark on a transformative journey towards enhanced customer engagement, increased profitability, and sustainable growth. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to unlock the true potential of your telco business.

Learn from our CPaaS leadership, conversational experience solutions and our telco clients on how to prioritize customer insights, leverage powerful analytics, and thrive in the digital age.

Optimizing martech platforms with CPaaS

Discover how CPaaS can help martech platforms scale, drive efficiency and grow revenue.

As an IT leader in martech, you face unprecedented challenges to continuously deliver value and accelerate growth, despite the market situation. To stay ahead of the curve, you need to not only keep up with emerging trends but also adapt to the changes in the market. Investing in CPaaS technologies is a strategic way to achieve this.

This eBook offers a deep dive into the benefits of CPaaS technologies for martech platform companies. It covers:

  • The trends shaping the martech industry
  • Key action investments for martech platforms
  • The perfect match between CPaaS and martech platforms
  • Insights on unlocking the value of CPaaS with the right provider
  • Unlocking business growth with a new CPaaS API stack
  • Ways Infobip can drive revenue, scale, and efficiency

Why is CPaaS crucial for martech success?

As a marketing and sales leader within a business it’s your responsibility to invest smartly in the right martech platforms to grow or risk losing market share.

According to Gartner’s 2023 Global Software Buying Trends report 68% of businesses are replacing software more frequently since 2021.

68%

of businesses replace software more frequently 

So, as a martech platform what can you do to prevent being replaced?

A strategic CPaaS provider offers a variety of tools and APIs that allow businesses like yours to build and customize their communication workflows according to their specific needs. By investing in CPaaS, martech platform companies can optimize their operations, scale their solutions, and pioneer new forms of engagement with their customers.

Download the eBook now and learn how CPaaS technologies can help your martech platform company improve revenue outcomes, transform business models, modernize technology, and enhance customer experience by continuously delivering value and accelerating growth.

Platforms looking to gain a competitive advantage have been searching for ways to expand their core offerings – wanting to grow and move to new markets to meet client demand. Whether a platform is enabling businesses to help customers market, shop, or bank, businesses need to communicate with customers in an equally efficient way.

Messaging trends 2023

Discover the current trends in business communication based on interactions that took place on our platform.*

*2021 vs 2022

The era of conversational everything  

Consumer habits have evolved at a rapid pace – and continue to evolve as we experience further advancements in technology.  

The days of consumers finding brands in-person or online are over. Now, they expect brands to find them in the spaces they prefer. Communication channels, automation, and personalization all play important roles in building experiences that drive loyalty and retention.  

We’ve entered the era of conversational everything – whether for marketing, support, or sales, customers want a conversation with a brand on the channels they already use. For customers, the benefits are clear. They get richer, more convenient, and more personalized experiences. Meanwhile, businesses and brands benefit from customer loyalty and ultimately stronger sales. 

Ivan Ostojić

Chief Business Officer, Infobip

The business messaging landscape

Whether you want to reach your target audience with
personalized campaigns, use digital channels as your new
sales channel, or maintain customer loyalty with cost-effective
solutions – there’s a channel that best suits the ways you want
to connect with customers

2x

increase in Voice interactions for customer engagement

2x

increase in chatbot interactions on Google’s Business Messages

2x

increase in Apple Messages for Business customer support interactions

Omnichannel leads to conversational adoption

56%

of companies use more than one channel to communicate with customers

29%

use SMS + WhatsApp

14%

use Email + SMS

Omnichannel maturity  

Percentage of companies that have adopted more than one channel on our platform 

58%

Banking and finance 

55%

Retail and eCommerce 

53%

Transportation and logistics 

59%

Telecoms

Customer communication on a global scale

Still, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the right omnichannel strategy. Different channels are popular in different countries and regions. But although we’ve grown accustomed to this, we’ve recently seen high growth for specific channels in countries we wouldn’t normally expect.

An approach for B2B platforms

6x  

more RCS interactions in 2022 

2x 

more CPaaS traffic in 2022 

20%+

of platforms adopted an omnichannel approach

Platforms looking to gain a competitive advantage have been searching for ways to expand their core offerings – wanting to grow and move to new markets to meet client demand. Whether a platform is enabling businesses to help customers market, shop, or bank, businesses need to communicate with customers in an equally efficient way.

It’s time for brands to rethink their communication strategies, adopt new messaging channels, expand their offerings with new capabilities, and enter the conversational era to meet customers where they’re waiting for them. 

Adrian Benić

Chief Product Officer, Infobip

The conversational experience playbook

conversational experience playbook

Your journey to conversational experience

In today’s world, new customer trends trends emerge every day, and the technology hype circle is growing exponentially. Businesses must adapt to these changes to stay competitive and meet their customers’ expectations. That’s why businesses must invest in and build end-to-end conversational experiences for their customers on digital channels.

134%


more WhatsApp interactions within the banking and finance industry

428%


more Messenger interactions within the transportation and logistics industry

Your guide to conversational experiences

Inside this playbook, you’ll discover the fundamentals of conversational experience, including conversational marketing, conversational support, conversational commerce, and conversational design. You’ll learn about the advantages and key use cases across the customer journey, from engaging with customers to supporting them, to facilitating transactions.

Whether you’re in retail and eCommerce, finance, or on-demand, this playbook will provide you with the insights you need to create conversational experiences that will drive customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Don’t wait any longer! Download The Conversational Experience Playbook now and discover how you can leverage conversational technologies to take your business to the next level.

WhatsApp Business Solution Use Cases

Start connecting with customers on their favorite chat app

Follow these tried-and-true ways your business can use WhatsApp, combined with chatbots and live agents, to always be there for your customers – from onboarding to retention

WhatsApp’s popularity as a customer support channel has expanded to cover sales and marketing use cases as well. Leveraging rich media functionalities and automation through WhatsApp is proven to reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction.

In this guide, we highlight the top WhatsApp Business Solution use cases in the retail, finance, and telecommunications industries that are sure to keep your customers engaged.

The path towards omnichannel communication maturity

Moving across the channel maturity cycle to deliver omnichannel customer experiences. 

Infobip and IDG surveyed 1,068 companies across Europe to assess the CX maturity of European businesses.

8%

of companies in Europe send personalized communication.

25%

of companies in Europe have omnichannel interactions with their customers.

41%

of companies in Europe introduced automation to their core messaging processes.

Our research clearly indicates that customers expect a good buying experience. This is why it’s imperative for businesses to understand customer needs and preferences – including the channels they want to be contacted on.

We compiled this report to give you an insight into:  

  • Key channels European customers prefer
  • How omnichannel is the key to efficient customer experiences  
  • The state of omnichannel CX in Europe 
  • Best practices to stay ahead of the curve 

Get access to in-depth insights with this omnichannel CX maturity report.

Together, with IDG we surveyed 1,068 companies across Europe, to help you assess your CX maturity and regain any lost ground. 

Download the eBook and let your omnichannel journey begin. 

SMS turns 30

Over the last three decades SMS has exploded in popularity, and today, the humble text message has emerged as the go-to form of communication for billions of people and an ever increasing number of businesses.

But, 30 years ago, when the first text message was sent, it was a revolution that changed the way we communicate. So, let’s celebrate the 30th anniversary of SMS together.

Download this infographic and discover some interesting fact about P2P and business SMS.

Interesting statistics about SMS

55%

of businesses have sent SMS to their customers 

95%

of SMS’ are read in the first 3 minutes

36%

is the CTR rate for SMS with a link

Discover more on how SMS can help your business

Infobip Messaging Trends 2022/23

Our lives today are more digital than ever 

We analyzed over 153 billion interactions that took place on our platform in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021 to learn the current trends in business-to-consumer communications.

Download the report to find out: 

  • What are the most popular channels in B2C communication – globally and across regions 
  • The role digital channels and cloud solutions play in customer engagement and support 
  • How industries have evolved with today’s technology to meet consumer demands

68%

Increase in number of interactions on digital channels

99%

of contact center and chatbot interactions were on WhatsApp 

65%

increase in SMS interactions

Conversational experiences will become the norm – and the entire customer journey will be a combination of our favorite channels, features, and technologies. In this report, we share the current trends we’ve seen come to life across our platform and why brands should start to build their own omnichannel foundation to prepare for a conversational future.

Ivan Ostojić

Chief Business Officer, Infobip

Join the African Retail Revolution

African Retail: The numbers speak for themselves

Thanks to rising connectivity and urbanization, Africa’s retail landscape is going from strength to strength.

In addition, 53 per cent of income earners on the continent is between 16 and 34 years old, representing an age group that tends to be more aware of and eager to try new products – not to mention this generation’s tech-savviness.

But what changes are we seeing in this vibrant sector?

This eBook unpacks the latest trends in five key markets on the continent: Morocco, Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. It also provides general information that pertains to the continent as a whole.

It places traditional, informal, and eCommerce under the microscope and will bring you up to speed with the best CX solutions to tap into this fascinating industry.

Download this insightful read now to garner valuable insights!

53%

% of African income earners between 16 and 34 years old

80%

% of total household consumer goods distributed by the informal sector

78%

% increase expected for contactless payments between 2020 and 2025