The Great Experiment
On May 25th, only 30 days away, the European Union will launch the greatest privacy experiment in history. On that date, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. It will immediately impact the more than 508 million people who populate the EU and multi-millions more throughout the world who collect personally identifiable information about EU citizens. Despite the hopes and claims for these highly complex proposals, no one knows the true impacts of these stringent regulations.
In this latest Hispanic Radio Podcast from Streamline Publishing’s Radio + Television Business Report and Radio Ink, Liz Castells explains why radio remains a vital part of the mix for her clients and others actively seeking to build sales and seek long-term revenue growth.
While the barriers hindering women from fully participating in the labor market make it unlikely that they will attain full gender equality within a decade, the report finds that in a best-in-class scenario—in which each US state matches the state with the fastest rate of improvement toward gender parity in work over the past decade—some $2.1 trillion of incremental GDP could be added in 2025. That is 10 percent higher than in a business-as-usual scenario.
Are big media companies ready for another big wave of disruption? They’d better be. The direct-brand revolution is starting, and it might not be pretty for large incumbent players in the media industry.
When researching Brand Premium I interviewed a well-respected agency planner who told me that the most effective marketing campaigns traded on people’s anxieties and insecurities. I am not convinced their assertion is true but in today’s turbulent times perhaps brands should have a responsibility to accentuate the positive not add to the negative? by Nigel Hollis
Pretty much everyone watches TV, surfs the web, checks email and logs on to social sites, right? Wrong!
KIDDOS Magazine, a Florida based, kids focused magazine, whose mission is to help strengthen the bonds between parents and their children by providing value-based content and activities, announced it will be partnering in 2018 with Amigos For Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect by strengthening families and educating communities, to coincide with National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April to help disseminate awareness and education of child abuse prevention.
Daisy Expósito-Ulla, Chairman/CEO of d expósito & Partners, was inducted into the 69th Annual Advertising Hall of Fame® at a Gala Dinner and Induction Ceremony on Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The AAF Hall of Fame is undoubtedly the highest honor bestowed by America’s Advertising Industry and it recognizes the most accomplished and legendary figures in advertising, bringing together the industry to celebrate the Biggest Night in Advertising.
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises revealed its 2018 Upfront theme, “Beyond Language. Powerful Consumers,” underlying the value of the U.S. Hispanic consumer and Telemundo’s unique ability to tap into this segment’s growing pop culture, economic and political influence.
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.
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.
As the percentage of Hispanics who speak Spanish begin to decline and immigration slows, it begs the question among market researchers, “do I still need Spanish-dominant sample as part of my U.S. sample frames?”
Welcome to the second installment of the #TotalMarketTalk podcast. This episode features actor and NGL Collective partner, John Leguizamo, in an amazing 1 on 1 conversation with our industry’s own, Luis Miguel Messianu, Creative Chairman and CEO of the award-winning ALMA ad agency. 
Recent studies have highlighted a growing opportunity to increase DTC activity and potentially save many more lives among U.S. Hispanics.
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
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.
By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc. / LMMiami.com
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.
