Impressions 2.0: The great equalizer

By Kim Gilberti, SVP Product Management Every once in a while, a word becomes so common in our media vocabulary that we lose sight of its actual meaning. Impression is a good example. We know what it means. We’ve been using it for decades. Yet as the term is used more broadly for holistic media … Read more

Nielsen Launches Diverse Media Equity Program [REPORT]

Nielsen announces the launch of its Diverse Media Equity program, which is designed to elevate the visibility of diverse-owned media companies with advertisers and agencies. The comprehensive initiative includes measurement of diverse-owned media historically excluded from investment, funding certification fees of diverse-owned media, as well as the launch of the first ever report on diverse-owned … Read more

U.S. Hispanic population continued its geographic spread in the 2010s

By Jeffrey S. Passel, Mark Hugo Lopez and D’Vera Cohn The U.S. Hispanic population reached 62.1 million in 2020, an increase of 23% over the previous decade that outpaced the nation’s 7% overall population growth. At the county level, growth played out unevenly, which resulted in the continued geographic spread of Hispanics. Numerical growth of … Read more

Hispanic Marketing Council honors Kellogg’s as the 2022 Marketer of the Year

The Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) announced today that Kellogg’s is the winner of the 2022 HMC Marketer of the Year Award. Kellogg’s joins a prestigious short list of elite brands that have received the award, including AARP, Ford, McDonald’s, Nestlé, Sprint, State Farm, Toyota and Walmart. Chief Marketing & E-Commerce Officer for Kellogg’s North America … Read more

Two of the biggest Spanish-language media companies in the world are now officially united in fiscal matrimony.

By Adam R. Jacobson Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. and Univision Holdings II Inc. (together with its wholly owned subsidiary, Univision Communications Inc.) on January 31 completed their merger — a transaction between the Mexico City and New York-headquartered companies that effectively melds Televisa’s media content and production assets with those of Univision. The new company takes … Read more

Six Hispanic Healthcare Insights for Successful In-Culture Marketing

As Latinos welcomed the New Year, the traditional “Salud!” was the quintessential closing to every family’s wishful holiday toast. And while the pandemic has certainly made public health concerns top-of-mind for most, it’s no secret that health and wellness have always been high priorities for U.S. Hispanics, who rank the importance of their health higher … Read more

Behind Billions of Lost TV Impressions

How the Nielsen audience undercount took nearly 30 billion ad impressions out of the TV marketplace. [Hispanic & Black audiences impacted the most] VAB Insights, in collaboration with the VAB Measurement Innovation Task Force, uncovered the staggering size and scope of the recent self-admitted Nielsen audience undercount, reported in late December. Nielsen presented this 16-month … Read more

Chasm in Client / Agency Relations

More than 90 percent of senior marketers believe training resources for successful agency management are inadequate and that more comprehensive training is needed, according to a study by the ANA’s Marketing Training & Development Center. The study serves as a follow-up to the 2020 ANA/4A’s report The Business Case for Relationship Management. That study found … Read more

Multicultural marketing: Lessons from the past in predicting the future

By Amy Huber, Doctoral Student – Florida State University, School of Communication Lessons from the Past Writings on multicultural marketing penned since the turn of the century reveal several trends borne from current events. In the early aughts, authors cited an unbridled optimism promising a future celebrating the potentialities of multiculturalism (Burton, 2002; Garcia, 2004). … Read more

Fun While It Lasted: Ad Industry Approaches a Reckoning

By Michael Farmer This is not an industry where you can “fake it until you make it,” with the promise of a big payday if you can just get through a difficult phase. It’s exactly the opposite. The big payday was in the past, when media commissions made agencies rich in the ’60s, ’70s and … Read more

CALL FOR ENTRY FOR THE HMC STRATEGIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS

The Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) announced the call for entry for the HMC Strategic Excellence Awards, the only award of its kind that honors multicultural strategic thinking and cultural competence in marketing. Census data has revealed that Hispanics are responsible for half of the population growth of the nation and a critical driver of the … Read more

Multicultural Marketing Investments Expected To Grow In 2022

By Isaac Mizrahi – Co-President of ALMA As we start a new year, there’s a sense of optimism regarding the expectations around multicultural marketing investments. Before the holiday break, I connected with a few industry leaders representing different segments and discussed the trends for 2022. Here’s an edited version of my conversations with Albert Rodriguez, … Read more

Performance media and marketing: An expanding playground for brands [REPORT]

The pandemic witnessed many brands turning to performance-based strategies to survive, but after stunning growth comes a host of challenges – in worlds both real and invented. COVID-19 has significantly accelerated our development and use of technology over the past 18 months, largely fueled by advertisers’ efforts to evolve their ecommerce offerings and meet the … Read more

Embrace the “Netaverse”

by Luis Miguel Messianu, Founder, Creative Chairman and CEO, Alma While I love, embrace, and can even say I’m an “early adopter” of new technologies, I’m a bit at odds with the overwhelming overload of Metaverse, NFT’s, bitcoin, crypto and all the advances of our society. Each of these come to us as sharp contrast … Read more

2022 Trust Barometer [REPORT]

The 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that business holds onto its position as the most trusted institution, with even greater expectations due to government’s failure to lead during the pandemic. By an average of five-to-one margin, respondents in the 28 countries surveyed want business to play a larger role on climate change, economic inequality, workforce … Read more

Mental Health in the US Hispanic Creative Industry

Those of us in the advertising industry are aware that the job means constant pressure. Every day, we must demonstrate that we have the talent and skills necessary to solve the creative problems that come across our desks. And our work is always subject to scrutiny, approval, and the opinions of many during the entire … Read more

If we’re all so busy, why isn’t anything getting done?

With endless meetings, incessant emails, and casts of thousands, companies have mastered the art of unnecessary interactions. Winning in the next normal requires much more focus on true collaboration. Have you ever asked why it’s so difficult to get things done in business today—despite seemingly endless meetings and emails? Why it takes so long to … Read more

Marketing Predictions 2022: Forging New Connections [eBOOK]

What does the future of marketing look like? CMOs face a perfect storm of budget cuts, operational disruption and social unrest. The ability to build new, vital connections with customers, employees and business partners is central to thriving across a range of unpredictable scenarios. Gartner Marketing Predictions 2022: Forging New Connections outlines critical marketing trends … Read more

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