AHAA Honors Ford with the 2017 Marketer of the Year Award

AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing announced today that Ford Motor Company is the winner of the 2017 AHAA Marketer of the Year Award. Ford joins a prestigious short list of elite brands that have received the award, including McDonald’s, State Farm, Toyota, and Walmart. David Rodriguez, multicultural marketing director for Ford will accept the award and discuss the automaker’s commitment to the Hispanic and multicultural market at AHAA’s 2017 Annual Conference.

Univision 2017 Upfront

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) unveiled its 2017-2018 programming line-up and highlight how its portfolio offers deep engagement and unique opportunities for marketers to deliver results leveraging viewers’ passions.

Azteca America 2017 Upfront

Azteca America kicked off its 2017-2018 Upfront roadshow in New York by announcing a roster of new programs

CNN en Español 2017 Upfront

This year CNN en Español is celebrating its 20 years of covering news around the world like no one else with credible, emotional, ground breaking journalism.

Hey haters, hate this. Part 3

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

  • Don’t let the social media echo chamber fool you.
  • Haters, aka trolls, tend to be a minority.
  • Haters force people to take sides.

Discovery U.S. Hispanic 2017 Upfronts

Discovery U.S. Hispanic’s networks, Discovery en Español, and Discovery Familia announced a multitude of Upfront opportunities for advertiser across linear, digital, social, and virtual reality platform

House Members Agree: Protecting Advertising is Crucial

Representatives Kevin Yoder (R-KS) and Eliot Engel (D-NY) have sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in support of protecting the current tax deductibility of advertising. This letter is extremely significant for the advertising community and shows wide congressional support for our industry. There were 124 bipartisan members of Congress who signed the letter.

Mobile’s Hierarchy of Needs [REPORT]

In this report, they examine key mobile behaviours that have propelled it to a primary platform, using 9 global markets (USA, Canada, UK, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, China and Indonesia) to demonstrate pockets of intense usage within a mobile hierarchy of needs.

FTC Sends More Warnings To Influencers

Until recently, social-media influencer marketing has looked a bit like the Wild West (with better teeth),@ but it looks like the sheriff is coming to town.

Price is a signal too

I believe that a brand’s greatest asset is its ability to command the price it chooses, not one that is determined by competitor or retailer pressure. Sure, you have to grow sales, but any fool knows how to do that. Just drop your price. Until that is people learn to expect your brand to be on discount. Then the trouble really starts.  by Nigel Hollis

Dark Social: The Black Hole of Brand Measurement

The term “Dark Social” is being kicked around every so often by marketers. In this post, we’ll answer some of the most important questions about the topic: what is it, how does it affect your brand and how you can measure it?

What’s new with the Internet of Things?

Niccolò Machiavelli, one of history’s great futurists, might have predicted the Internet of Things (IoT) when he wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

Are Advertisers “Bad Hombres” for Their Ad Agencies?

Ad agencies have had a tough time for the past decade. Reduced retainers. Disappearing AOR relationships, as clients expanded their portfolios of agencies. Inflating Scopes of Work, straining the capabilities of agencies’ downsized and juniorized staffs.  By Michael Farmer – Madison Avenue Manslaughter

The Evolution of Public Relations

The role of public relations is evolving. The ANA partnered with the USC Center for Public Relations at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to understand current client-side marketer perceptions of public relations.  By Bill Duggan, Group EVP, ANA

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