Chart of the week: Why do consumers break up with brands?

The top no-go for brands is using data consumers confided in them without their knowledge or permission. Eighty per cent of respondents worldwide said this was the number one reason to divorce.

“Now that brands are able to collect data about consumers, how they use that data becomes critical,” the report concludes. An unresponsive customer service is the second most acute reason customers terminate their relations with a brand (71 per cent).

There is other brand behaviour that might not lead to consumers shunning the brand altogether, but which still is seen as annoying. The top two spots have to do with a marketing and sales overkill: 60 and 50 per cent of consumers respectively are either bothered by too many direct marketing calls or too frequent sales emails.

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Source: Statista

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