Are brands resilient or fragile?
A while back the MSI series ‘5 Things I Know About Marketing’ featured Scott McDonald, President and CEO of The Advertising Research Foundation. One of his five things was that brand equity is hard to build and hard to shift – except in a negative direction. But is that always true? by Nigel Hollis

If a campaign delivered 50 GRPs but didn’t have a mechanism for measuring ROI, did it simultaneously overperform and underperform? For years, marketers didn’t have the tools to provide an answer.
By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc / LMMiami.com
Following the ‘Despacito’ VMA snub, actor John Leguizamo pens a powerful essay on Latinos’ absence from film, TV and media in general.
It seems protests are the new norm and Generation Z has been at the heart of much of the activity. Gen Z, people born between 1995 and 2015, believes they can change the world, according to our research. This is a generation of activists born in the post-Internet age and they have harnessed social media to marshal forces to their causes and tell the world what they believe. By Karla Fernandez Parker
New research from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council reveals that brands and communications service providers will need to become tightly coupled in order to truly fulfill their shared vision of delivering a more gratifying, valued and relevant omni-channel experience for customers.
The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) today announced the winners of its Excellence in Multicultural Marketing Awards (EMMA). The competition recognizes excellence in marketing efforts designed to attract and retain culturally diverse audiences and customers among African American, Asian, Latinx, LGBTQ, disabilities communities and other market segmen
onica Lozano has been named the new President & CEO of College Futures Foundation.
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), in collaboration with Too Small to Fail, an early childhood initiative of The Opportunity Institute and the Clinton Foundation, is continuing its efforts in the Hispanic community about the importance of their young children’s early brain development with the broadcast of a new miniseries, “La Fuerza de Creer” (The Power of Believing).
Once upon a time, the U.S. Hispanic marketing model was a single-minded thing of beauty — a perfect, irrefutable story that went something like this. “Unless and until advertisers marketed to U.S. Hispanics in Spanish, they were missing out on tens of millions of under-served customers with over a trillion U.S. dollars to spend, who were more brand loyal and more efficient to target than their non-Hispanic counterparts (i.e., – everyone else who spoke English).” By David A. Chitel























