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Is all of the endless chatter about “total market” total BS?
Is the advertising and marketing industry’s infatuation with millennials completely daft, since these consumers are more likely to have crappy jobs and far less money to spend on anything when compared to their parents and grandparents?
Is it time to say “adios” and turn off the lights one final time because Hispanic marketing and advertising has peaked and is starting its slow, painful slide downward?
After spending four months preparing the fifth annual Hispanic Market Overview by engaging some of the industry’s top thought leaders in debate and pouring through pages of Excel spreadsheets, the answer is an easy one. No.
There’s a clear need to fully understand “total market” approaches, and the 2014 Hispanic Market Overview, presented by López Negrete Communications, tackles the buzzword of the year by asking key industry leaders their take on what “total market” is. We also discuss why marketers and media crave the coveted Latino millennial, and examine the traits and trends of the Hispanic consumer with data from Experian Marketing Services-a new feature in Hispanic Market Overview.
The need to appeal to this growing shopper base is clear, but understanding the influences of Hispanic shoppers and cuisine is far more complex. However, retailers who learn these shoppers’ preferences—particularly in the fresh foods space—will benefit as the group’s spending power continues to climb.
The American public anticipates that the coming half-century will be a period of profound scientific change, as inventions that were once confined to the realm of science fiction come into common usage.
Though you may already use primary and secondary media research to guide your marketing strategy, you may be missing out on key information if you’re not measuring marketing effectiveness too.
A consortium of six companies announced today a cross-industry study to drive thought leadership in marketing to Hispanics. The consortium members include IRI, Latinum Network, Univision, Telemundo Media, UM, and Rentrak. The consortium will enable marketers to maximize the multi-platform impact of advertising to Hispanics by developing best practices around strategy and performance measurement. The consortium’s mandate is to help marketers, advertisers and retailers develop effective marketing strategies to best serve Hispanic consumers.
The National Grocers Association (NGA) and the Center for Multicultural Science (CMS) recently conducted the first study to estimate how much the Hispanic shopper spends in the independent retail grocery channel. The study found that Hispanics spend an estimated $22.8 billion in retail grocery stores (or 17% of the total estimated annual sales of the independent retail grocery channel).
America is in the midst of two major changes to its population: We are becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. In 1960, the population of the United States was 85% white; by 2060, it will be only 43% white. Our intricate new racial tapestry is being woven by the more than 40 million immigrants who have arrived since 1965, about half of them Hispanics and nearly three-in-ten Asians. Explore these shifts and examine America’s four generations through animated charts, graphics and videos in a new interactive essay by Paul Taylor that synthesizes findings from the new book, The Next America.
Underscoring the rapid transformation of the marketing profession, 64% of marketers expect their role to change in the next year and 81% believe their role will change in the next three years. But the path to reinvention remains a challenge. Respondents cited lack of training in new marketing skills (30%) and organizational inability to adapt (30%) among the top obstacles to becoming the marketers they aspire to be.
Marketing mix modeling has never been more valuable to chief marketing officers—and the need for effective models never greater—than today. Constant budget pressures and an exploding array of consumer touch points from the digital world have dramatically increased the difficulty and the competitive value of fine-tuning one’s marketing spend.
Some information I recently read in a very interesting article by Colin Ho made me take a new look at what we call “barriers” in connecting brands with consumers. The article included information on how consumers tend to gravitate towards negative information in a stronger way than to positive. It explains that we are hardwired to pay attention to negative information and less so to positive information. By: Enrique R. Turégano – alPunto Advertising Inc.
Consumer viewing of TV programming and movies over the Internet is growing, according to a new survey released today by Accenture. The demand for more devices and more online content, as well as consumers’ willingness to pay for better access to content, is reshaping the media and entertainment landscape.
The report provides a year in review of the major shifts in digital consumer behavior that occurred in various online sectors, including mobile, social media, video, advertising, search and e-commerce. Furthermore, it examines what insights can be gathered from these trends and what that means looking forward to the year ahead.
Latina Mom Bloggers and The Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication at Florida State University (The Center) released the results of a national survey on blogger trends among Latinos. The findings identify attitudes toward blogging as a business and opportunities currently influencing blogging as a profession among Latina bloggers.
Culture in an ad agency is unique to the place and the personalities of the people running the shop. There is the outward agency persona, and then there is the inward true culture of the agency that we all work within.
Changing media practices and technologies are driving marketers’ concerns around media buying effectiveness and media agency transparency according to Transparency, Machines, and Metrics; An ANA/Forrester Survey of the Evolution of the Media Buying Industry.
Building self-understanding and then translating it into an organizational context is easier said than done, and getting started is often the hardest part. We hope this article helps leaders who are ready to try and will intrigue those curious to learn more.
Based on data received from 59 markets across Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA, Carat’s latest global advertising expenditure forecast show global advertising revenues accelerating by +4.8% in 2014 to US$551 billion[i]. This is an upward revision on the +4.5% forecast in the previous Carat Advertising Spend report issued in September 2013 and a notable increase in pace on the actual +3.3% growth in 2013. Carat predicts that global advertising expenditure in 2015 will continue on an upward trend, with +5.0% year-on-year growth.
Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS) has teamed with Nielsen Audio to pioneer the first single-source measurement tool built for the radio industry. Clear Channel Media and Entertainment (Clear Channel) first piloted this innovative measurement approach in 2013 and is one of the radio networks included in this study.
Digital omnivores – those consumers who own a trio of tablets, smartphones and laptops – continue to grow, driven by the proliferation of new platforms and increased device adoption. Deloitte’s eighth edition of the “Digital Democracy Survey” (formerly the “State of the Media Democracy” survey) reveals that over one third (37 percent) of U.S. consumers are now digital omnivores, a 42 percent growth over the previous year. This growth is primarily driven by continued tablet adoption (33 percent increase) and, to a lesser extent, smartphone ownership (18 percent increase). Moreover, women, who made up over one-third (35 percent) of omnivores two years ago, now account for 45 percent of this group.
