“Diversity” Voted ANA 2021 Marketing Word Of The Year
Since 2014, the ANA has surveyed its committee members to select the marketing word of the year. In choosing the word, the ANA staff identified a list of 12 final candidates. Members were then asked to cast their votes to determine the winner.

WARC’s Spotlight US: DEI in US marketing: How it’s progressing – and how it isn’t
Influencer marketing continued to grow at a rapid pace mainly fueled by changes in cultural and consumer behavior. There are no signs that influencer marketing growth will slow down as we head into 2022
The global ad market will continue its recovery from the 2020 downturn with 9.1% growth in 2022, after 15.6% growth in 2021, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts report, published today. Global adspend will expand by 5.7% in 2023 and 7.4% in 2024, with brands looking to leverage more social media, online video, advanced TV, and ecommerce channels.
Advertising has the power to shape ourworld. When done well, it reflects our innermost desires, feeds our greatest aspirations, and fuels our feelings of hope and belonging.
The global economy has recovered in-line with expectations (GDP +5.9% vs +6.4% expected in April) and, in most markets, so has marketing activity and advertising spending.
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CMO priorities, trends and strategic actions for 2022
What do people value in life? How much of what gives people satisfaction in their lives is fundamental and shared across cultures, and how much is unique to a given society? To understand these and other issues, Pew Research Center posed an open-ended question about the meaning of life to nearly 19,000 adults across 17 advanced economies.
With digital media investment seeing more than twenty years of constant and at times staggering growth, it now dominates brands’ media budgets. This expansion has been accompanied by almost dizzying evolution of the digital media ecosystem. And the pace of change is only accelerating.
Estrella Media announced that Steve Mandala, former President, Ad Sales & Marketing for Univision Communications and Executive VP, Cable Entertainment Sales for NBCUniversal, is joining the company as Chief Revenue and Local Media Officer. Mandala starts on December 1 and will be based out of the company’s New York office.
The issues surrounding the sale of WPYO-FM to SBS by Cox Media Group has made headlines, most recently in
The Hispanic marketing industry must take action and capitalize on the spotlight that is currently shining on diversity, inclusion and multicultural marketing. By Lee Vann – Captura Group
The panic over the impact supply chain snafus are having on how many ad dollars are spent during this quarter is probably overdone. Not because there won’t be notable cuts; they have already happened and continue to do so, according to the six ad execs interviewed for this article. Rather those dollars won’t be lost for good. They will be spent eventually in the quarter. The hard part for those execs is knowing when.
Federico Valiente, previously Director of Marketing for Dallas based Pollo Campero has been named Director of Marketing at YUM Brands for Pizza Hut LAI. Mr. Valiente was honored recently as one of HispanicAd’d 2021 Hispanic Market Thought Leaders.






















