Reflecting upon media and marketing trends in 2010

[Ashraf Garda: @ashrafgarda1] Over the past year I have had the privilege to engage with South Africans and the world on many platforms - the marketing and media show Media@safm on Sundays, weekday sports-anchoring, regular stand-ins (hosting the Morning Talk show and occasionally presenting SABC3's Special Assignment), being used as a 2010 FIFA World Cup analyst on CNN, Al Jazeera, CBC Canada and SABC2's Morning Live. 13 Dec 2010 13:02

2010 - a year of communication achievements

[Daniel Munslow] It feels like yesterday that we sat down with a crystal ball and tried to predict how the face of communication would change throughout the course of 2010. Now, it's already time to reflect and take stock of the year that has been. A busy year; a tough year; an exciting year; an unpredictable year! Of the 10 trends discussed in January 2010, the first eight were action items. Have these trends from January come true? 13 Dec 2010 10:23

Bills, bans and BEE: a review of 2010, and a peek into 2011

[Odette van der Haar] We all expected 2010 to be a difficult year following the global economic recession, but the local advertising and communications industry faced some unexpected challenges which had little to do with economics and everything to do with a rapidly changing social, political and legal environment. 13 Dec 2010 10:12

Global magazine industry in decline, FIPP report shows

[Herman Manson: @marklives] Magazine publishers face increasingly tough times as the category struggles to reverse declines in its share of global ad revenue, brought upon by the double whammy that was the Great Recession and a continuous shift in spend towards digital media. 13 Dec 2010 09:50

[Flux Trends] The digital generation: anti-brand or misunderstood?

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] [Flux Trends] The rise of the machines has produced one of the strangest human tribes the planet has ever seen: the digital junkies. Their behaviour, deemed ‘unconventional' by some observers, upsets conservative society, which believes these ‘outcasts' are leading schizophrenic lives. 1 Mar 2010 10:38

[Flux Trends] Adapt to the consumer-driven world or die

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] [Flux Trends] In a world where technology-minded consumers have wrested power from editors, publishers and brand managers, bringing a whole new set of opportunities, brands need not to fear these changes but should rather embrace them and understand these technologies and start looking for new business models. This has emerged at the Digital Lab workshop taking place today, Friday, 26 February 2010, at the University of Johannesburg, in conjunction with the 2010 Flux Trend Review conference. 26 Feb 2010 12:28

[Flux Trends] Towards creating an empathic, consumer-dominated economy?

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] [Flux Trends] The recession had left an indelible mark on the global economy and on the business environment, leading to a shift of value systems, power balance and the creation of an empathic economy, delegates who attended the 2010 Flux Trend Review at the University of Johannesburg were told yesterday, Thursday, 25 February 2010. 26 Feb 2010 09:58

[Flux Trends] Let's strive for eco-justice, says green bishop

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] [Flux Trends] Most people are not aware of the alarming state and the critical position the planet earth is in right now, SAB Environmentalist of the Year Bishop Geoff Davies said today, Thursday, 25 February 2010, adding that people are failing in their responsibility to protect the earth. 25 Feb 2010 13:05

[Flux Trends] Is SA sliding towards a banana republic?

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] [Flux Trends] Malema's behaviour, politically infested tenders, out-of-control blue light convoys, Zuma's polygamy and infidelity, the ANC's judiciary and media encroachment and many more current strange events could be the signs that South Africa is slowly but surely becoming a banana republic, City Press editor Ferial Haffajee told delegates attending the 2010 Flux Trend Review at the University of Johannesburg this morning, Thursday, 25 February 2010. 25 Feb 2010 12:01

The mind is a terrible thing to waste

[Mokena Makeka] [Flux Trends] The mind is a terrible thing to waste. The plethora of stimuli and information available to the average urbanised person has reached stratospheric levels and the digital revolution has offered a host of new social networks and the rapid mobility of ideas. 24 Feb 2010 13:37

Trends for two future scenarios

[Bishop Geoff Davies] [Flux Trends] In predicting trends, I foresee two future scenarios: the first, business as usual leading to disaster, and the second, sustainability and planetary wellbeing. 22 Feb 2010 14:04

What's in store for CSI in 2010?

[Menzi Mthethwa] [Flux Trends] As we start seeing the biggest global economic meltdown on our review mirror, corporate social investment campaigns will never be the same again. We can expect innovative campaigns that we have never seen before. 17 Feb 2010 12:13