Jacques du Bruyn, MD, Flume Digital Marketing and PR, says customer experience as a concept is not new. It has been around since the modernisation of business and has been at the forefront of product and service innovations for decades. After all, everything that a business does is for its customers and clients fall under this umbrella. One only has to [...]
South Africa’s leading creative minds came together at the recent virtual Cannes Trends 2021 event to analyse and be inspired by some of the best creative campaigns from across the globe. At the onset of the pandemic, brands were faced with an unprecedented crisis, but many used the power of creativity to solve new problems and transform perceptions with effective campaigns, [...]
According to Brent Haumann, Managing Director, Striata, typically, a customer engagement hub (CEH) framework can consist of 12 to 18 categories of functionality and can be enabled by as many different technologies. When it comes to orchestrating communication to drive engagement, an omnichannel engagement hub can be crucial. An omnichannel engagement hub, also known as a customer engagement hub (CEH) is [...]
According to Lizelle Mc Connell, Sales Director at Tractor Outdoor, out of home (OOH) is not the same industry it was two decades ago. Across the global landscape, the OOH arena has typically been an industry that has seen more men enter its ranks than women – but things are starting to change. And this change is desperately needed, said Mc Connell, but [...]
According to Paula Sartini, founder and CEO at BrandQuantum, as a starting point, companies need to assess their brand health and determine if they are still relevant in the market today. To achieve this they need to understand what is important to their customers today and evaluate if their brand purpose and brand promise are still relevant for today’s discerning consumers. [...]
Moti Grauman, Digital Media Strategist at The MediaShop, cites Noah Yuval Harari’s book Sapiens, which argues that a brand is simply an agreed social construct that is lacking anything substantial. In fact, the elements of which any brand comprises are arbitrary. A brand is a not a logo, because logos change. It is not the building, because companies move. It is not [...]
According to Richard Lord, Media & Operations Director at Meta Media, during 2020, TV benefitted from a captive, stay-at-home audience with more time on their hands. Newspapers and magazines suffered as traditional distribution channels were decimated. Out of Home (OOH) fell off a cliff as there was nobody out and about. And the platform that arguably benefitted the most? Digital. 2020 [...]
Kyle Oosthuizen, Chief Operating Officer at Blue Robot does not believe Facebook will go the same way of MySpace and MxIt, notwithstanding more and more platforms entering the market. ‘Because of Facebook’s development power, it will never fall behind other platforms. It is also catering to a changing audience and has changed with that audience.’ He explained that when Facebook first [...]
Mkhuseli Vangile, Managing Director of The Dynaste Communications Firm, says that it is very important for brands to have a crisis communication policy in place. This will be the first thing to look at when your brand trends for the wrong reasons. The advent of social media technology has made it easy for brands to […]
According to Tessa Nowosenetz, Account Manager at KLA, while veganism and vegetarianism appear to be increasing, only 1% of the population of developed countries claim to be vegan and only 5% claim to be vegetarian. Another trend is plant-based food. You might assume that this correlates with the increase in veganism and vegetarianism but, with […]