Hey everyone! In this week’s episode: Twitch gaming livestreams experiences a huge boost in usage, Ring’s home security drone, Target is hiring 130.000 extra people for the holiday season online sales and Amazon launches a hand reading payment system! See you next week!

Driven by technological innovations, customers’ expectations have completely transformed over the last decade. In my new book The Offer You Can’t Refuse, I try to illustrate how companies in all sectors – from HR to the healthcare industry and even governments – can take their customer service one step further and play an active role in their customers’ life journeys.

Welcome everyone! Disney+’s Mulan experiment is a massive success, Walmart is still in the TikTok race, Amazon may go public with its healthcare service, the big tech companies tackle discrimination on social networks, a cheaper Tesla is coming up and Microsoft wants to introduce a mental health monitor in Teams app. Enjoy!

Hey everyone, welcome to Steven’s Week #174! Singapore is looking at Bluetooth technology to improve COVID contact tracing, Oracle and TikTok finally close data storage deal, citizenM introduces ‘Netflix for hotels’, Apple wants to become our personal healthcare assistant, while Facebook gets nostalgic with Facebook Campus and partners up with Ray-Ban for their first smart glasses. Enjoy!

Welcome everyone! In this week’s show: Walmart creates spectacular virtual toy store Wonder Lab, Apple is saying goodbye to the traditional computer keyboard, Amazon launches Alexa for Residential to help out in maintenance issues, China blocks the TikTok sell-off and can management books have a soundtrack? I sure think so! 😉

Welcome back everyone! In my first episode after the summer break, I talk about Walmart entering the TikTok acquisition race, the Toyota-backed company SkyDrive testing a flying car, Zoom’s unbelievable financial results, Netflix will start offering first episodes for free, and Facebook will publicly test its VR platform Horizon. Enjoy!

Hey everyone, welcome to the last show before my summer break! In this week’s update: Google introduces a fact-check label for images, some big brands are launching a Facebook ad boycott and Google’s ad revenues drop for the first time in its entire history. See you in September!

Hello again! In this week’s show: an exciting telco-finance blend by Belfius and Proximus, WhatsApp payment services, Fitbit launches a ‘ready for work’ check, Instagram has become a main news source, Tencent is building a car-free city, the Boston Dynamics Spot robot is on sale and marketing will become even more digital post-pandemic. Enjoy!

In this episode Steven talks to Jon Bird.

Jon Bird is CEO of leading marketing communications agency VMLY&R in Australia and New Zealand, and is also a global advisor to VMLY&R's retail and commerce practice.

Hey everyone! Find out why IBM will no longer allow governments to us its facial recognition technology, learn how corona has given last mile delivery robots a tremendous boost and discover why AliExpress is counting on an army 100,000 influencers to recover from the crisis. Stay safe and see you soon!