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Superb data-driven insights into advertising, marketing and media trends for 2012.

61% of consumers would be shocked if a retailer responded to their negative comment on the social web.

 In a devastating 2011 study of 600 CEOs and decision makers by the London-based Fournaise Marketing Group, 73% of them said that CMOs lack business credibility and the ability to generate sufficient business growth, 72% are tired of being asked for money without explaining how it will generate increased business, and 77% have had it with all the talk about brand equity that can't be linked to actual firm equity or any other recognized financial metric. 

At the end of 2011, the South African video gaming industry passed R1.7 billion, with 3.5 million casual and hard-core gamers battling it out on mobile and wired consoles.

In summary: mobile devices, e-commerce and the BRIC countries.