Infobip Reports Record Black Friday Interactions as Retailers Accelerate Shift to Richer Customer Experiences

Black Friday interactions grow by 15% year-on-year, marking a new milestone for Infobip’s global communications platform

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Vodnjan, Croatia – 03 December 2025 – Infobip, the leading global cloud communications platform for customer engagement, identified a remarkable upswing in its Black Friday messaging traffic, with use of Rich Communication Services (RCS) surging 277% on Black Friday 2025 compared to the previous year. Email also remained a strong channel of choice among both retailers and consumers, showing an impressive 241% year-on-year increase, signaling that promotional and transactional communications continue to drive engagement during shopping peaks. 

Black Friday is no longer just a single day. The search for attractive deals extends beyond Friday, with consumers from around the globe seeking products, better price offers, and reliable, easy communication channels to connect with their favourite brands. Infobip identified significant increases in interactions not only in North America, but also in other key regions. In LATAM, channels such as WhatsApp (+46%), Email (+61%) and RCS (+464%) all saw strong growth. Europe posted impressive gains as well, with SMS up 65%, Voice 25%, WhatsApp 162%, and RCS 361%. In APAC, Email was a standout driver with a 243% increase, while Voice (+84%) and WhatsApp (+13%) also rose. These results reinforce that Black Friday has grown well beyond its North American origins to become a truly global event. 

Retailers worldwide are accelerating their adoption of messaging channels that deliver visually rich, interactive, and highly personalised experiences. During the Cyber Week period, which encompasses Black Friday through to Cyber Monday, Infobip saw interesting growth, with interactions rising from 11.6 billion in 2024 to 12.2 billion in 2025, a 5.17% year-on-year increase. 

Infobip also identified that RCS and WhatsApp together generated 504.8 million interactions, up 27.3% year-on-year, underscoring the global shift toward richer customer communications, during the Cyber Week period. RCS especially was one of the fastest growing channels this shopping season, up 209.4% from 2024. Email remained as a popular channel, rising 322.6%, driven by steady growth in promotional use. 


Our data shows how rapidly RCS is becoming the way people shop and communicate. The surge in adoption proves that retailers are embracing channels that offer richer experiences, higher engagement, and better outcomes. With consumers seeking for more options and offers, spending reached higher levels during the weekend between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. To meet this customer demand, brands must be well set and invest in immediacy, relevance and personalised interactions.”

Silvio Kutić

CEO at Infobip

Infobip’s global platform delivered smooth and reliable customer journeys throughout the week, helping businesses handle high volumes of promotions, updates, and transactions without delay. For further insights on how consumer behavior evolves during peak season, read our latest blog on Holiday Shopping Trends. 

About Infobip

Infobip is a global cloud communications platform that enables businesses to build connected experiences across all stages of the customer journey. Accessed through a single platform, Infobip’s omnichannel engagement, identity, user authentication and contact centre solutions help businesses and partners overcome the complexity of consumer communications to grow business and increase loyalty. It offers natively built technology with the capacity to reach over seven billion mobile devices and ‘things’ in 6 continents connected to over 9,700+ connections of which 800+ are direct operator connections. Infobip was established in 2006 and is led by its co-founders, CEO Silvio Kutić and Izabel Jelenić.  

Recent award wins include:

  • Infobip ranked as the number one Established Leader in the Juniper Research Mobile Messaging Fraud Prevention Market report (Sept 2025)
  • Infobip named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) for the third consecutive year. In 2025, positioned furthest in Completeness of Vision (July 2025)
  • Infobip named among Top 75 in Fortune’s Europe’s Most Innovative Companies 2025, placing it in the top 25% of all listed organizations (June 2025)
  • Infobip ranked as a Leader in the Omdia CPaaS Universe Report for the third time (April 2025)
  • Infobip ranked an Established Leader in the Juniper Research Conversational AI Leaderboard (Feb 2025)
  • Infobip named a CPaaS Leader for the third time in the IDC MarketScape (Feb 2025)
  • Infobip named one of the top CPaaS providers in Metrigy’s CPaaS MetriRank Report (Dec 2024)
  • Infobip named number one among Established Leaders in RCS Business Messaging in Juniper Research’s RCS Business Messaging Competitor Leaderboard 2024 (Nov 2024)
  • Infobip recognized as the number one provider in the AIT Fraud Prevention market by Juniper Research (Oct 2024)
  • Infobip named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (March 2024)