Industry Veterans Launch Minority-Owned Media Company

YouNite Media launches with a focus on providing advertisers the ability to reach 250 million people across General Market, Hispanic, Black, Asian and LGBTQ segments. A minority-owned company, YouNite was founded by Pedro Lerma, CEO of LERMA/, and Rodrigo Vallejo, CEO of RO2 Media, with the goal of forging meaningful connections between brands and consumers. … Read more

ANA, WARC & LIONS announce long-term partnership to create a US and Global business practice to “Crack the Code of Creative Effectiveness”

The ANA, WARC, and LIONS have announced a unique long-term research partnership to create a global framework that guides and supports brands in ‘Cracking the Code of Creative Effectiveness’. The initial goal of this project is to address both the culture of effectiveness within organizations as well as the elements of campaign effectiveness. Other fundamentals … Read more

A decade of shopping shows mums are the biggest influencers

Inter-generational loyalty; children continuing the shopping habits of their parents when they set up their own household, is the biggest driver of FMCG unit growth. Brands of the Decade, a new analysis of shopper behaviour since 2012 shows that, in 2021, branded FMCG items were chosen a total of 382 billion times, up 16% compared … Read more

Hispanics Aren’t Prepared for Retirement

By Roy Eduardo Kokoyachuk Social Security is not enough. Anyone currently living on a monthly Social Security check can attest to that. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t fully grasp that reality until they reach retirement age. This problem is even more pronounced in the Hispanic community, which lags other groups in retirement savings. ThinkNow recently conducted … Read more

ThinkNow taps Semasio to bring Multicultural Audiences to Programmatic Advertising

Semasio has partnered with ThinkNow to bring zero-party multicultural data to the programmatic ecosystem. The partnership will equip marketers with the tools and resources to plan, manage and message to their target audiences in a culturally evolving and dynamically shifting U.S. consumer market. “ThinkNow’s zero-party data integration with Semasio is a critical step in reaching … Read more

State of B2C Conversational Marketing [REPORT]

Spectrm releasedthe findings from its State of B2C Conversational Marketing report. The report surveyed 400 B2C marketers across the globe about their experiences and approaches to better understand how marketing teams in general are using conversational marketing. The report dives into how B2C marketers are finding success, improving metrics, the particular channels they’re finding more … Read more

Pepsi joins EstrellaTV’s ‘La Academia’ as Official Beverage Sponsor

Pepsi will be joining the series La Academia on EstrellaTV as the official U.S. beverage sponsor of the legendary Latin music competition series. The series is a co-production of Estrella Media and TV Azteca, airing and streaming live and simultaneously on EstrellaTV in the U.S. and Azteca Uno in Mexico on Saturdays and Sundays from … Read more

Oh, The Places You’ll Go…With Your Smartphone

By: Melissa DeCesare, Vice President Edison Research and The Research Moms I got my first cell phone in my very early twenties. It was clunky, had a numeric keypad and an antenna with somewhat unreliable service. I barely used it. My parents thought it was high-tech and a good idea, ‘for emergencies.’ They could not … Read more

Omnicom Group publishes DE&I Report

Omnicom Group released its first stand-alone diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) report. The report, “Responsibly Relentless: Equity for All,” outlines the company’s key areas of focus for DE&I and includes 2021 U.S. diversity metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs) and our strategic framework to ensure DE&I permeates all business operations, employee and client experiences, and partnerships. … Read more

Sports fandom is increasing, powered by new digital platforms [REPORT]

Study by Nielsen and LaLiga Tech shows younger viewers are following more sport than older counterparts, but with a heavy preference towards streaming and mobile experiences, including Fantasy games. In contrast to the received wisdom that younger viewers are losing interest in sport, a new global report finds that the Millennial and Gen Z generations … Read more

Diversity In Market Research, Attracting the Next Gen [PODCAST]

Attracting young, diverse talent to the market research industry is essential to its longevity. But this task has proven difficult to date, and it may be a matter of timing. Engaging younger generations in college could lead to greater interest in careers in insights. But that requires intentionality on the part of research companies. Engagement … Read more

What are the most valuable global brands in 2022?

Apple sits on top of the Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable Global Brands 2022 ranking and is on track to become the first trillion-dollar brand. With a brand value of $947.1bn, Apple stands out for its high degree of differentiation and continued diversification across its hardware, software and services portfolio. Google moves up to second place … Read more

Marketing in the metaverse: An opportunity for innovation and experimentation

Talk of the metaverse has been ubiquitous over the past several months.  In 2021, internet searches for the term increased by 7,200 percent. In December, Facebook rebranded itself as Meta, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared his ambition to “help bring the metaverse to life.” A month later, Microsoft said that its proposed acquisition of gaming … Read more

Seeking authenticity [REPORT]

Global attitudes about the LGBTQ+ community have evolved dramatically over the past decade or so, and the community is acutely aware of this. These changing attitudes vary by country, which means perceptions about the community can vary as well. While this has fostered a greater sense of optimism about what lies ahead for this community, … Read more

TelevisaUnivision and VideoAmp announceData, Currency and Cross-Platform Partnership

TelevisaUnivision and VideoAmp announced a new partnership in which TelevisaUnivision will leverage VideoAmp’s data to power its suite of advanced advertising solutions. Through this partnership, TelevisaUnivision will connect VideoAmp’s data to its industry-leading Hispanic household graph to power its planning, targeting, cross-platform measurement and currency solutions, which will enable advertising partners to better reach and … Read more

Entravision Radio Network’s Shoboy Show expands affiliates

Entravision announced that the Shoboy Show hosted by Edgar “Shoboy” Sotelo is now being syndicated by four new affiliate stations including: Jacksonville, FL on WYKB-FM, Bakersfield, CA on KBQF-FM, Atlantic City, NJ on WSJO-FM and Scranton, PA on WGGY-FM. Starting in August 2020, the Shoboy Show launched in McAllen, TX (KKPS 99.5 FM), Sacramento, CA … Read more

Performative Gestures in Multicultural Marketing

At some point, we need to demonstrate that the “Performative Gestures” by many advertisers and their media buying agencies have merit and contribute to the overall growth of advertising and marketing to Multicultural Consumers. Performative Gestures – More specifically, the popular conception of performative describes utterances or actions that benefit a performer but fail to … Read more

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