TurboTax lLaunches Spanish Language Tax Resources

TurboTax, from Intuit Inc, announced that its TurboTax Blog will now be available in both Spanish and English, making it one of the most comprehensive free tax information resources available to U.S. Spanish-speaking audiences.

Over The Dinner Table: An Interview With Immigrant Archive Project's Tony Hernandez

His father was thrown into prison over a couple bottles of milk.  As a toddler in Cuba, Tony Hernandez was diagnosed with a severe calcium deficiency. Dairy could help, but was severely rationed by the Castro government. His father bought 2 liters on the black market, got caught and was incarcerated for six months.  After the family escaped to the U.S., Hernandez heard this story and others like it shared over the dinner table—conversations which inspired and motivated him.  By Court Stroud

Stop Blaming Commercials

Over the years, the TV commercial has become a favorite whipping post, under attack from TV “visionaries,” agencies and marketers sounding off in the press, or at the hands of consumer outrage on social platforms.

2018 Hispanic Social Marketing Report - DOWNLOAD for FREE

HispanicAd in association with Adam R Jacobson are proud to announce the availability of the 2018 Hispanic Social Marketing Report for our readers.

To view and download click on image or CLICK HERE.

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The Simple Complexity of Social Feeds

Thanks to social media, hundreds of millions of individuals are liking, commenting on, and sharing content throughout the course their day. However, as last year's Fullscreen report "Understanding Multigenerational Youth Audiences" revealed, gen Zers admit to spending "way too much time" with social media or that "it was a problem." Even a recent survey by Pew Research found that more than half of young people say they would "have a hard time" giving up social media.

Americans Still Prefer Watching to Reading the News – and Mostly Still Through Television [REPORT]

Watching remains the preferred mode of news consumption in the U.S.Americans continue to prefer watching the news rather than reading or listening to it, and their viewing loyalties have yet to migrate fully to the web.

Podcast | Social Around the World

In the latest episode of "Behind the Numbers," forecasters Monica Peart and Eric Haggstrom dig into eMarketer's latest estimates for global social network use, highlighting markets where players other than Facebook show noteworthy uptake.

Farewell and Thank You to Cynthia Perkins-Roberts

The advertising industry lost a pioneer and friend on January 1, when Cynthia-Perkins Roberts passed away. Cynthia was VP of diversity marketing and business development at our sister industry trade association, the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB).

Multicultural Intelligence: Eight Make-or-Break Rules for Marketing to Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation (Updated 2018)

Chapter One:  Melting Pots, Multiculturalism, and Marketing to the New America  Early in his 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Republican candidate and billionaire real estate mogul, Donald Trump, won popular support promising to build a wall along the Mexican border, throw the Mexicans back, and ban Muslim immigration.  In support of Trump, self-described “race realists” popped up on conservative talk radio, television, and internet decrying blacks for “playing the race card” and accusing President Barack Obama of policies favoring blacks to the detriment of whites.  Said one Long Island housewife in a New York Times interview, “Everyone’s sticking together in their groups, so white people have to, too."  By David Morse / New America Dimensions

Eight Digital Video Predictions for 2019

The TV and OTT landscapes continues to shift and slide as consumers adopt digital video and streaming options, and the companies producing long-form content make bets on where audiences will spend their time. Here are eight digital video market predictions for 2019.

The Future of OTT is Free!

Time was, the future of OTT (over-the-top) was understood as the ability for users to watch whatever they wanted, only what they wanted, whenever and on whatever device they wanted.   Oh, and the viewing would mostly be free or much cheaper than cable bundles and feature fewer or no annoying ads.  This idea was born of technology visionaries who weren't really thinking through user behaviors, let alone realistic business models. 

Privacy, confidentiality, anonymity, discretion, deceit, paranoia. Part 4

By Gonzalo López Martí - Creative director, etc / LMMiami.com

  • Imagine if you knew exactly how much your boss makes.
  • Imagine if you knew exactly how much the dealer and the manufacturer are profiting on that new car you want to buy.
  • Apply this to every transaction: from groceries to taxes, from healthcare to education.
  • We’d do away with most of the drama of everyday life.

Why marketers need to value people not data

In this video, Keith Reinhard, Chairman Emeritus, DDB, states, “We over-appreciate data and under-appreciate data”, and he is right. We tend to over-appreciate the data which tells us what people do, and under-appreciate the data that tells us why they do it.  by Nigel Hollis

Is Your Competitive Intelligence Missing Innovation Intelligence? [REPORT]

In 1979, Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter launched his Five Forces framework with a powerful statement: “The essence of strategy formulation is coping with competition, yet it is easy to view competition too narrowly and too pessimistically.”

Top health industry issues of 2019 [REPORT]

The US health industry has often lagged other industries when it comes to modernizing. Once thought to operate outside the greater US economy, the industry—with its byzantine payment system, complicated regulatory barriers and reliance on face-to-face interactions—is being disrupted.

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