Wine Marketing to Latinas [REPORT]

In addition to wine preferences the subjects include attitudes about how they see themselves, preferred language for communication and content consumption, top social media channels and frequency, types of shareable content, and relationships with premium brands. The results paint a picture of a community of confident women who over index on brand loyalty, appreciate culturally relevant content, have extraordinary influence in their communities through the social mobile, and who love wine.

Personal Care Advertising and Marketing [REPORT]

A public opinion poll conceived and commissioned by LAVIDGE and Mosaic Multicultural found revealing consumer sentiments about advertising from personal care businesses, such as fitness clubs, salons, massage clinics, spas, beauty products and nutritionals.

Inner City Bodegas Gets Tech Facelift

Inner city bodegas, staples in urban communities, are having difficulty competing with big box stores and retail chains. Many of these small, independent, store owners are immigrants and lack the resources and access to capital to keep up with tech-savvy retail chains. 

Pseudoscience and post truth. Part 3.

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

  • We know damn well in this business that metrics in the digital space are rife with fraud and tainted with misleading analytics.
  • We simply choose to believe something we don’t fully understand.
  • In many cases, something we don’t understand at all.
  • What is an algorithm?
  • Has anyone in the room seen one?

A Marketer’s Guide to Reaching Each Consumer Generation

Yes Lifecycle Marketing surveyed more than 1,000 consumers to outline the distinct shopper personas for Centennials, Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers. Find out the factors that influence their purchase decisions and get actionable strategies on ways to engage shoppers from each generation.

7 Great Ways to Screw Up Your Executive Communications Program

Need to add a little extra “oomph” to your content marketing? Incorporating an executive voice can make your assets more compelling and persuasive. But while you may garner more interest this way, there are a number of routes toward making your executive communications program go sideways fast.  By Paul Carlstrom, VP of operations, TDA Group

Connected consumers enjoy more than just digital [REPORT]

There is no question that online media forms play an ever-more significant role in our lives. But what does that mean for traditional media platforms? According to Kantar Media’s DIMENSION report, traditional media isn’t going away.

Baristas Coffee Targets US Hispanics

Baristas Coffee Company announced that it has expanded its advertising to target US Hispanic-Americans with Spanish TV spots on Telemundo, Galavision, Fox Deportes, CNN Espanol, ESPN Deportes, and Spanish speaking radio stations.

We Left Our Soft Skills Behind In The Digital Age [INSIGHT]

Traditional agencies have worked hard to get up to speed on digital. Digital agencies have worked hard to get up to speed on branding. The industry is now filled with amazing expertise that can virtually build anything we can dream up.   By Eric Prado, Founder of fireflyhigh & Professional Training & Coaching Consultant.

CEOs make unprecedented commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace

A group of more than 150 CEOs from some of the world’s leading companies have signed on to the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace. By signing on to this commitment, CEOs are pledging to take action to cultivate a workplace where diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and respected, where employees feel encouraged to discuss diversity and inclusion, and where best known—and unsuccessful—actions can be shared across organizations via a unified hub, CEOAction.com, in an effort to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

U.S. Advertising And Marketing Executives Reveal Hiring Plans

The employment outlook for creative talent is expected to remain relatively steady in the second half of 2017, according to new research from staffing firm The Creative Group. Nine percent of advertising and marketing executives surveyed said they plan to expand their teams. The majority of respondents (64 percent) anticipate maintaining staff levels and hiring primarily to fill vacated roles.

The Terrible Outcomes of Lower Growth in Advertising

Growth is the engine of wealth and success.  Stock prices soar.  Companies expand, hire and promote, and salaries rise.  Optimism abounds.  Everyone has a place in a growing future.  The party does not go on forever, as we know.  Growth rates slow, and sometimes they halt — the reasons vary, but it’s inevitable.  Still, the end of growth is shocking, and the advertising industry is now facing the shock.  By Michael Farmer / Madison Avenue Manslaughter Archives

Algorithms May Have Developed Your Favorite Coffee Drink

Most individuals likely don’t spend much time wondering how the products they use every day are developed. Generally speaking, they identify the products that appeal to them and then bring them into their lives without thinking too much about how they came to be—their drinkable yogurt, their antioxidant beverages and their rippled toilet paper.

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