Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

It’s hard to find anyone involved with the chatbot and virtual agent industry who hasn’t heard the cautionary tale of Microsoft’s AI chatbot Tay. Described as a ‘machine learning project designed for human engagement,’ Tay ended up becoming an often-cited example of an AI chatbot gone wrong.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Welcome to Creative Virtual’s annual year in review blog post for 2021! They also discussed the findings of ISG’s research and current successful virtual agent implementations. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 11, 2021

Deploying conversational AI solutions like chatbots and virtual agents can be risky but doesn’t have to be. In this three-part blog series, I’m sharing three steps for achieving conversational AI success while minimizing the risk for your organization.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is my sixth year creating a blog post roundup to kick off Creative Virtual’s celebration of Customer Service Week. It’s a post I look forward to writing every year even though it’s always difficult to narrow down a year’s worth of informative blog posts into just a couple handfuls to include.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Around this time every December, I put cursor to page and fingers to keyboard to take a look back over the last 12 months and reflect on some of the highlights of the year for Creative Virtual. This is the seventh time I’ve done this annual year in review blog post, but never have I had to review a year that was like 2020.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We’re coming up on eighteen years since I founded Creative Virtual, and so much has changed in the chatbot and virtual agent space since those early days. It draws from our nearly two decades of experience in the industry to deliver updates to our chatbot, virtual agent, and live chat technologies.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 11, 2019

2019 was another busy and exciting year for Creative Virtual and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. It’s always difficult to condense a whole year into one blog post, so here are just a few of the highlights. The Ever-Changing World of Customer Service Chatbot Creation – By Jeff Clifford.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 26, 2023

In some cases, one might be willing to accept a certain risk in exchange for very efficiently making large chunks of information available to a chatbot. However its knowledge is not limitless and so on its own it will not have large parts of the information needed for specific chatbot use cases.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For as long as virtual agents and chatbots have been used by companies to provide customer self-service, they have been criticised for removing the human touch from interactions and taking away the opportunity to build an emotional connection with customers. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The fact that our very first enterprise-level customer has worked with us continuously since 2004 tells us that we are doing something right! While we don’t do what we do for external awards and recognitions, it’s always a nice boost for morale to have experts in the industry acknowledge Creative Virtual’s expertise and success.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 7, 2020

For Creative Virtual, it was important to me that the company maintain a culture of ownership, innovation and collaboration. I’m very proud to say that our first enterprise customer, Lloyds Banking Group, who we first worked with in 2004, are still a customer today. Relationships are at the core of what the company is all about.

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 22, 2019

I first started working in the world of virtual agents in 2000 and, even though the technology was very much in its infancy at the time, saw huge potential for innovation and growth in the industry. By Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO. is the lack of understanding within organisations about deploying these solutions.

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VocalCom

JULY 2, 2020

We are social creatures and the value interacting with another human being over a machine when dealing with a complex and emotional problem cannot be underestimated: humans offer a level of empathy that no chatbot or automated agent can currently provide. The rise of the ‘Super-Agent’. To find out more: www.vocalcom.com.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s been another exciting year not only for Creative Virtual as a company, but also for the virtual agent, chatbot and live chat industry, with lots of new developments and innovation. This was the fourth time a group of runners from Creative Virtual did a 10k in support of the RSPCA.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 16, 2020

Ok chatbots, you’ve had your fun. If you’ve experienced a bad Virtual Agent recently, chances are, it may have had nothing to do with the underlying technologies and everything to do with how it was designed. For example, scheduling appointments used to be a huge hang-up for Virtual Agents. Talk is the new Type.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 11, 2021

This and other intelligent automation technologies are helping enterprises optimise costs and productivity while also enabling them to stay prepared for the future. I’ve talked before about how much the virtual agent and chatbot space has changed since I founded Creative Virtual in late 2003.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Enterprises expect contact center leaders to transform call centers into customer experience hubs, delivering the exceptional experiences that customers demand and drive long-term growth. While every enterprise strives to optimize contact center experiences, internal strategies, operations and processes often present major challenges.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 28, 2021

Ask any seller of a highly complex and customizable chatbot or virtual agent system about cost and you’re likely to get an evasive answer. Increasingly, in this ever-saturating market, it’s easy to find elements of chatbot pricing (i.e., The truth is, building a successful chatbot is not purely a question of technology.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I started building virtual agents and chatbots for customer service more than 12 years ago. In my experience, there has been a major shift in customer expectations since 2015/2016 in the customer service chatbot industry. Simple chatbot implementations are no longer enough to meet customer expectations.

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Interactions

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When asked, 82% of enterprises agreed that intelligent voice capabilities will be a deciding factor in where consumers will take their business. Chatbots passed through the Great Filter. If 2018 was the year of chatbots, then 2019 was the year when chatbots had to prove their worth and usability.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 18, 2019

Conversational AI is increasingly an important piece of these initiatives with chatbots and virtual agents becoming essential tools for providing 24/7 self-service to digital customers. Chatbots are more than customer self-service tools. Not all chatbots are designed for the contact centre.

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RichCall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Here are the experts: @Jon Arnold , an independent research analyst with a great blog. Sheila McGee-Smith , an enterprise communications industry analyst. Dave Michaels , founder of TalkingPointz, covering enterprise communications and IoT. These are the two most significant emerging modalities in enterprise communications.

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AWS Machine Learning

JULY 18, 2023

Amazon Lex is a service that allows you to quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems for applications such as Amazon Connect. They do so by leveraging enterprise knowledge base(s) and delivering more accurate and contextual responses.

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