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Nearly two-thirds of consumers worldwide say they'd like the ability to message with brands, according to LivePerson's Consumer Preferences for Conversational Commerce survey

Survey examines consumer preferences around brand interactions; 90% of consumers are more likely to do business with companies that can answer questions immediately

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NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- LivePerson, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPSN), a global leader in conversational commerce solutions, today announced the findings of its Consumer Preferences for Conversational Commerce survey examining consumer attitudes and preferences around brand interactions, messaging, and chatbots. The survey of more than 5,000 adults in six countries found that messaging and chatbots are becoming widely used, with nearly two-thirds of consumers worldwide saying they'd like the ability to message with brands. What's more, the survey showed that as consumer interest in messaging increases, brands need to pay greater attention to conversational design — the ability to evaluate and optimize conversations — to meet customer expectations.

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If a company has gathered information about you in a secure manner, would you feel comfortable using a chatbot that does the following things:
If a company has gathered information about you in a secure manner, would you feel comfortable using a chatbot that does the following things:

The August 2019 survey included respondents from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia. Among Americans, interest in using messaging to interact with brands rose significantly, from 52% in 2018 to 62% this year. The European countries surveyed had the highest average demand for messaging, at 65% of respondents. Perhaps not surprisingly, this capability is of most interest to younger demographics, with more than 70% of people 18-34 years old wanting the option to message with businesses.

Consumer messaging capabilities can take many forms, including the native messaging apps of iOS and Android, messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, voice assistants such as Alexa, and even branded mobile apps and websites.

The survey also looked at the ways consumers are using chatbots and messaging to interact with brands and their attitudes toward those experiences. Key findings are summarized below:

On doing business with brands

The convenience of messaging is shifting consumer preferences.

  • 49% of consumers worldwide report a higher likelihood of spending more with a brand that offers messaging as a contact option.
  • Consumers in Australia, the UK, and France report the highest levels of chatbot usage, with more than 70% of respondents having used one to interact with a brand in the past year; the US and Germany are slightly behind at just over 50%.
  • Among people who have interacted with chatbots in the past year, 80% used them for customer care, up from 67% the previous year.
  • In the US, a whopping 90% of consumers "agree" or "strongly agree" that they're more likely to do business with a company that can answer their questions immediately. Similarly high numbers were found in the other countries surveyed.
  • People are increasingly using bots for functions beyond traditional customer care; the second most common use case for chatbots in the 2019 survey was "assistance in making a purchase."

On personalization and privacy

Trust is growing — especially among younger generations.

  • A full 96% of Americans "agreed" or "strongly agreed" with the statement, "I'm more likely to do business with a company that interacts with me in a personalized way (i.e., knows information about me from previous transactions)."
  • A small majority of consumers feel that personalization is convenient rather than an invasion of privacy. Younger people prefer convenience over privacy relative to older generations.
  • When assured bots are secure and have useful information available, most people are willing to use them for a wide variety of care and sales use cases.

If a company has gathered information about you in a secure manner, would you feel comfortable using a chatbot that does the following things:

On humans versus bots

Human representatives are still the default preference for certain situations, but an appetite for bots is growing (especially among younger consumers).

  • Consumers are gaining confidence in the ability of bots to help with routine tasks. For example, more than 50% of respondents said they'd prefer a bot over a human agent to tell them their account balance or update an address.
  • Conversely, consumer confidence in bots is lower for more complex tasks — just 15% said they would want a bot to assist with correcting a mistake on a bill.
  • In alignment with other portions of the survey, younger respondents (ages 18-34) were more likely to cite "good" experiences with bots, while older people (over 34) were more likely to cite "negative" experiences. In fact, the younger group ranks chatbots and human support roughly equally, while the older segment significantly prefers human agents even when it is explicitly stated that a chatbot can help them.

On chatbot and messaging experiences

There's still room for improvement when it comes to user experience.

  • More than half of those surveyed felt "neutral" toward their experiences with brand bot interactions, with about the same amount saying either "positive" or "negative."
  • In the US specifically, 20% of survey respondents called their overall feelings toward chatbots "good," up from 13% in 2018.
  • An overwhelming majority of consumers wish to be notified whether an agent is a chatbot or human. Fewer than 5% of people in every country said that disclosure of bot identity is "not at all important."
  • People prefer bots with names from their country of origin. Over half of all people in all countries (except the UK) stated a preference for chatbots with names from their country of origin, and the number of consumers who said they were more likely to trust a bot with a name from their country of origin was at least 3 times higher than those who said no.
  • When it comes to gender, a large majority has no preference or prefers an ungendered name. However, among those who did state a preference, consumers were much more likely to say they'd trust a chatbot with a female name. Interestingly, 7% of men said they'd be more likely to trust a male chatbot, while only 1% of women said the same.

"The Consumer Preferences for Conversational Commerce survey shows that consumers — particularly younger consumers — are increasingly interested in the convenience and ease bots and messaging offer," said Manlio Carrelli, executive vice president, Enterprise Business Group at LivePerson. "That said, there is still a lot of room for improvement when it comes to the experiences consumers are having. Savvy brands should pay attention to conversational design to ensure they are not only offering customers their preferred channels of communication, but that they are also meeting and exceeding customer expectations in those channels."

The LivePerson Consumer Preferences for Conversational Commerce survey was conducted in August 2019 via an online survey of 5,031 consumers age 18 and older in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia. Respondents were asked a series of questions on the topics of messaging, chatbots and automation, and how they prefer to communicate with brands. The full report is available to view online.

About LivePerson
LivePerson makes life easier by transforming how people communicate with brands. Our 18,000 customers, including leading brands like HSBC, Orange, GM Financial, and The Home Depot, use our conversational commerce solutions to orchestrate humans and AI, at scale, and create a convenient, deeply personal relationship — a conversational relationship — with their millions of consumers. For more information about LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), please visit www.liveperson.com.

CONTACT: Mike Tague, (415) 408-5607, [email protected]

SOURCE LivePerson, Inc.

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