Sedano’s and Republica celebrate 10 Years

Republica commemorates a decade of trust and partnership with Sedano’s Supermarkets, one of America’s leading independent grocers, and the largest Hispanic retailer in the country.

Nestle, SPRINT and Target Kick Off Each Day at the 2018 CMC Annual Conference

The Culture Marketing Council: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing (CMC) will start each day of its 2018 Annual Conference with powerful sessions from top leaders of brands that keep creativity, community and culture central to their marketing strategies. CMOs and high-ranking executives from Nestlé, Sprint and Target will open each day of the CMC Annual Conference, taking place at the Loews Hotel in Los Angeles from June 4-6.

One Day at a Time Can’t Come Fast Enough for Latinas

Young Latina Fernanda Vazquez received her first paycheck and celebrates with her extended family in a tender moment of accomplishment in “Girl’s First Check” by Wells Fargo. Notable? Yes, as it was one of the first national ads that featured one of the biggest, yet least acknowledged, shifts occurring in the U.S. Hispanic market – the professionalization of Latinas.  By Stephen Palacios, Principal, Ahzul

What beauty players can teach the consumer sector about digital disruption

As many consumer businesses struggle to deal with the pace of change, the beauty sector shows the way.  After many decades of stable outperformance, the fast-moving consumer-goods (FMCG) sector is at a crossroads. Consumer preferences have upended the long-standing FMCG marketing playbook, while digital technologies are revolutionizing the way consumers engage with brands and shop. In this context, many FMCG companies are getting serious about change.

The Martin Sorrell Integrated Marketing Legacy

With the departure of Sir Martin Sorrell  — or SMS, as he is lovingly called — many are now predicting the end of WPP and of agency holding companies in general, along with the business model of the tailor-made, client-specific, integrated agency offering.

WPP: What Happens Next [REPORT]

One of the most common topics to emerge over the past week in relation to the transition underway at WPP is the prospect of a break-up of the company or a major divestiture program. For the most part, we don’t think this speculation makes much sense, and if anything, WPP probably emerges from this process as a net buyer rather than a net seller.

From cloned polo ponies to cloned polo players

By Gonzalo López Martí    – Creative director, etc. / LMMiami.com

  • Last week I wrote about the various implications -medical, moral, racial, etc- of creating genetically modified human beings.
  • Designer babies.
  • Just so you know: it is not a futuristic dystopian what-if scenario.
  • It’s happening.
  • As we speak.
  • All over the developed and not-so-developed world.

It’s About Time: Why Your Marketing May Be Falling Short

Time is running out on personalized marketing as a means of continually raising the return on investment of campaigns. For the past few years, many marketers have used advanced data analytics to identify the right customers and increase their ROI, but now these practices, while still valuable, are reaching a plateau.

The 3 C’s of instant recognition and meaning

In an increasingly competitive and disjointed brand landscape, where the influence of ‘private label’ and ‘direct’ brands continues to expand, how can established brands best achieve the recognition they need?  by Martin Guerrieria

Mobile Ad Spending to Surpass TV in 2018

This year, driven by display ads, mobile will account for 69.9% of all digital advertising. With a 33.9% share of total US ad spend, mobile will pass TV as the leading advertising medium in the world’s largest ad market—and we expect that share will grow to a whopping 47.9% by 2022.

Thinking Beyond Pink: Advertisers Need to be Smarter on Digital to Really Reach Women

Conversations around the best way to target women can certainly be divisive. Several recent brandings aimed at female consumers have received pushback for appearing clumsy and patronising, while others have been deemed mere stunts with little intrinsic value. Marketers need to think more strategically beyond cheap tricks, making things pink, or adding female icons to labels to reach women.

ALMA Redefines Latino Jobs in New Collaboration with HP

What are Latino jobs? In ALMA’s latest production, they prefer to ask: “What AREN’T they?” HP enlisted ALMA’s multicultural expertise for the Hispanic segment of their “Reinvent Mindsets” campaign for diverse recruitment, titled #LatinoJobs. The film reveals the stereotypes of Latino professions that still exist today and proposes a redefinition of the label.

How healthy is the Internet? [REPORT]

Our 2018 compilation of research explains what’s helping and what’s hurting the Internet across five issues, from personal experience to global concerns.

Reckoning With AI in the Real World [PODCAST]

Some business leaders, Elon Musk among them, worry that artificial intelligence poses a threat to human existence. How should businesses handle the responsibility of working with AI? In the latest episode of “Behind the Numbers,” we sit down with marketing executive Kyle Psaty of Brand Networks to discuss the challenge.

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