TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding Customer Responses to AI-Driven Personalised Journeys
T2 - Impacts on the Customer Experience
AU - Hardcastle, Kimberley
AU - Vorster, Lizette
AU - Brown, David
PY - 2025/1/27
Y1 - 2025/1/27
N2 - Within advertising, the customer journey concept helps explain how customer perceptions and behaviours evolve through seller-customer interactions. The concept has developed to reflect omni-channel marketing but neglects the emergence of algorithmically personalised advertisements. This study therefore explores impacts upon customer experiences of AI-driven recommendations and personalised advertisements by analyzing customer perceptions of tensions between the personalisation and customer empowerment inherent within AI-driven advertising. By combining semi-structured phenomenological interviews with Customer Journey Mapping, we capture experiences and behaviours across multiple touchpoints. Our findings show how AI’s technological limitations mediate brand-customer relationships and influence customer behaviours. The study contributes theoretically by critically contextualizing AI-driven advertising within broader ethical debates, emphasizing practitioners’ responsibilities to combine technological advancements with consumer autonomy.
AB - Within advertising, the customer journey concept helps explain how customer perceptions and behaviours evolve through seller-customer interactions. The concept has developed to reflect omni-channel marketing but neglects the emergence of algorithmically personalised advertisements. This study therefore explores impacts upon customer experiences of AI-driven recommendations and personalised advertisements by analyzing customer perceptions of tensions between the personalisation and customer empowerment inherent within AI-driven advertising. By combining semi-structured phenomenological interviews with Customer Journey Mapping, we capture experiences and behaviours across multiple touchpoints. Our findings show how AI’s technological limitations mediate brand-customer relationships and influence customer behaviours. The study contributes theoretically by critically contextualizing AI-driven advertising within broader ethical debates, emphasizing practitioners’ responsibilities to combine technological advancements with consumer autonomy.
M3 - Article
SN - 0091-3367
JO - Journal of Advertising
JF - Journal of Advertising
ER -