The Challenge of Attention [REPORT]
Do you want to focus your ad spend on opportunities where you can reach engaged viewers who are actually in the room?
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HMC ANNOUNCES 2021 WINNERS OF THE STRATEGIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS
With a record number of entries, the Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) announced the 2021 winners of the HMC Strategic Excellence Awards, the only award of its kind that honors multicultural strategic thinking and cultural competence in marketing. Alma took top honors with a Gold for Best Cultural Insight for its work with McDonald’s and a Gold for Mainstream Impact for its work by Coors. Casanova//McCann, Culture ONE World, d expósito & Partners, Dieste, Inspire Agency, Republica Havas, Visual Latina, and Zubi also received accolades.
Beyond brand activism: Three routes to inclusive advertising
Inclusion and Diversity in advertising is a hot topic, and one of the creative devices used by many of Kantar’s Creative Effectiveness Award winners. And we know that demonstrating inclusion and diversity in advertising is no longer optional, it’s an imperative. It isn’t just socially and morally right; progressive and inclusive advertising improves ROI. So how can you get inclusive portrayal of people right in your ads?
Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults [REPORT]
Six-in-ten Americans say they are very familiar with their origins. Black and Hispanic adults feel more connected to roots than White adults
How precision revenue growth management transforms CPG promotions
Promotions have always been an important sales driver for consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies.
Eyeing the Future of ……
A dizzying array of changes in consumer behavior will touch nearly every industry as the reopening period progresses, vaccination rates rise, more schools and businesses open, and people start to emerge from their homes and re-enter the larger world. Changes to work and school patterns, and the reemergence of dining out and other experiential spending, will affect how consumers reprioritize their spending in the coming months and beyond.
The Future of Agencies: Blurred Lines and Reimagined Relationships [REPORT]
Advertising, PR, creative, digital, and full-service agencies have played a crucial role in the marketer’s toolkit for decades. But the landscape is changing. More than ever, overlap exists between agencies and consultancies, in-house and external agencies, and the roles of humans and automation. ANA Marketing Futures gathered perspectives from marketers and subject matter experts to understand how marketers view the future of agency and how its trajectory impacts marketing decision making.
AD INDUSTRY: LET’S NOT FORGET ABOUT SUPPORTING HISPANIC SUPPLIERS
The current industry conversation around investment inequalities in the media and creative supply chain has been extensive, and rightly so. For example, there has been tremendous interest in supporting Black-owned businesses and Asian-owned businesses have also garnered interest and support. By Bill Duggan / Group EVP, ANA
ALMA’s Michelle Headley joins 4A’s Board Of Directors
The American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), appointed Michelle Headley / EVP operations and production at Alma to its national board of directors,
The Growth of Supplier Diversity [REPORT]
A supplier diversity program is a proactive business program which encourages the use of women-owned, ethnic/minority-owned, veteran-owned, LGBTQ-owned, disability-owned, and small businesses as suppliers.
Mega Trends Transforming the United States Through 2030
Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Transformative Mega Trends in the United States through 2030, examines the complex intersections of social, education, work, political, economic, and urbanization trends set to converge in the next decade.
Marketing Organization
What are best practices and common structures for the organization of marketing and digital in companies today?
Good to great: Boosting the efficiency of your TV spend
When it comes to spending on traditional “linear” TV, many advertisers have set their strategy to autopilot, letting their agencies make decisions and collect the data. In a recent survey of CMOs, optimizing their broadcast-TV spend didn’t even make their top-10 list of priorities.
It’s Time for Agencies to Grow Up
Ever since early man emerged from his cave, invented fire and wondered aloud how he was going to spread the word of his wondrous invention to others, those responsible for doing the word-spreading have considered themselves hard done-by. By Brian Jacobs / The Cog Blog
How Marketers Capitalize on the Trust Deficit
The latest Edelman Trust Barometer study may portend structural changes in how brands communicate with their audiences
2021 NY Latino Festival selects Talento Unlimited for Sponsorship Sales & Content Campaign Management
The New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF), the premier Urban Latino film event in the country, sets its return as the only event of its kind in the New York area this year. With a dynamic line up of films and industry-leading conversations planned for Hispanic Heritage Month 2021, the festival team has selected Miami-based seasoned sponsorship and talent management consultancy, Talento Unlimited, to lead and manage corporate partnerships and branded activations.
U.S. LATINO TERMINOLOGY
As an agency laser focused on the domestic Latino audience, and working exclusively with large companies, we are often asked our opinion on the many terminologies which describe this demographic. Social values and standards of decorum continually shift, so it’s important for organizations to stay at the forefront of respectful language and commonly-held practices. So I’ll give it a shot to provide a concise overview of the terms, as well as our point of view on how companies should proceed. By Mike Valdes-Fauli / Pinta Agency
LGBTQ Inclusion [REPORT]
As part of the launch of The Visibility Project, P&G and GLAAD also announced findings from the “LGBTQ Inclusion in Advertising and Media, Advertiser and Agency Perspectives” study.
Unveiling the Multifaceted and Fluid Nature of Identity and How Brands can Connect with People in Culturally Relevant Ways
NBCUniversal, MAGNA, and Identity revealed Deconstructing Diversity Today, a new research study that explores the full spectrum of diversity, and the role that brands play in acknowledging and amplifying cultural identification.
Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults [REPORT]
Six-in-ten Americans say they are very familiar with their origins. Black and Hispanic adults feel more connected to roots than White adults
