Turning Data Into Growth: How PLDT Transformed Customer Engagement

By Noel Lorenzana

April 20, 2026

PLDT’s transformation shows how effective data optimization can drive meaningful business results. By building a unified data hub and creating 360-degree customer profiles, PLDT enabled real-time and personalized interactions across its services. This approach allowed for “mass customization,” delivering the right offers to the right customers based on behavior and context.

Within only six months, they were able to achieve the following results:
* 5.7% increase in incremental revenue
* 5.2 points boost in customer satisfaction (NPS)
* 4.8% growth in upsells
* 2.6% increase in on-time bill payments
* 5.8% churn reduction

Tools such as Next Best Offer (NBO) and Next Best Action (NBA) were highlighted as key drivers of the project’s success, noting that they transformed PLDT’s call center from a “cost” center into a “profit” center. Other executives also credited the platform for enabling modern data-driven marketing techniques and contributing to the increase in market share.

Overall, the project was a result of an active collaboration across different areas, and of course the customers themselves who had a clear understanding of the value of data-driven transformation.

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