Growth hacks in marketing & advertising. Part 3.

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

  • There’s a cottage industry around the concept of “growth hacks”.
  • It is built around one premise: there always is a shortcut, an alternative way, a silver bullet.
  • Growth hacks, however, must be firmly rooted in big data.
  • It ain’t just throwing spaghetti to the wall to see what sticks.

A well-designed app can be your best brand builder

A couple of weeks ago while skiing at Park City in Utah, I checked in to my return flight with Delta while riding up the Super Condor lift. The experience reminded me that when well-designed apps really do make life easier, and that a positive experience is the best way to build a strong brand.  by Nigel Hollis

Importance of Attribution and Cross Channel Metrics

The optimal combination of formats and targeting can create significant shifts in sales and consideration, according to the most recent SMoX attribution study done for Allstate Insurance by The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA).

Pepsi and the road to marketing hell.

By Miguel Arias – Adman

  • The outcry is a bit too much.
  • In all fairness, why is the premise of Pepsi’s Kendall Jenner spot stupider than the vast majority of content coming out of Hollywood, the music industry or Madison Avenue?
  • If the socialsphere and the thought police applied the same level of self-righteous scrutiny to every figment of pop culture out there, no movie, music video, TV show or TV spot would ever see the light of day.
  • At the very least, Pepsi tried to do something different.

The Sky is Not Falling on Privacy

Consumers are right to be concerned about and demand strong protection of their privacy rights. Advertisers have long understood this highly legitimate need. That is why in 2010 the ad community launched the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) self-regulatory program to give consumers broad power to determine whether their Internet and mobile activities would be collected and utilized for advertising purposes. The ad community also has strongly supported a broad array of legislation to protect consumer’s truly sensitive financial, health, children’s and other similar data.

Sergio Alcocer – Unplugged Podcast

APC Collective, launched their #APCChats podcast during SXSW to spotlight some incredible, nuanced and important stories that often go untold. Free from the traditional format of 140 characters, a social video, article or blog post, the intention is to let creators share the origins of their ideas with in-depth backstories.

TECHNOLOGY, DISRUPTION & CULTURE ARE HOT THEMES AT AHAA’S 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

This year, the AHAA Annual Conference will tackle the hottest topics in marketing today: technology, disruption, culture, creativity and content. From June 12 to 14 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, AHAA will bring together experts and trendsetters to discuss how powerful U.S. Hispanics are to brands, how disruption and innovation is changing the way we consume content, and how marketers must adapt, ensuring efforts be free of stereotypes and inclusive of the multicultural community.

Teens And The Three-Second Rule For Social

First the good news: Contrary to a common factoid (can we call it a faketoid?) teenagers — and, in fact, all humans — do not really have attention spans shorter than those of goldfish.

Univision podcasts “Todo Es Posible- Unidos a través de nuestras historias”

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) launched its third annual multiplatform initiative “Todo Es Posible- Unidos a través de nuestras historias” (Everything is Possible- United Through Our Stories). This year, the campaign includes a series of eight podcasts featuring the heartfelt, personal stories of the network’s most beloved personalities including Giselle Blondet, Carlos Calderon, Lili Estefan, Satcha Pretto, Pablo Ramirez, Jorge Ramos, Teresa Rodriguez, and William Valdés.

National Beer Day [INFOGRAPHIC]

In honor of National Beer Day this Friday, April 7, we took a peek at Hispanics beer facts in America.   We found out there are more Hispanics who consume beer than non-Hispanics, and they prefer imports over American suds. 

“THE MIND OF THE VIEWER”

The Council for Research Excellence (CRE) tunveiled findings from the second of a two-phased neuroscience-based study designed to better understand how consumers view television programming and advertising in a multi-platform world.

The Nielsen Total Audience Report: Q4 2016

News headlines were non-stop throughout 2016. The unrelenting flood of stories included not just the Presidential election but also Syria, refugees, Brexit, Zika, terror attacks, celebrity deaths, and tense relations between police and communities.  Americans responded by watching, listening to and reading more news – a lot more news. Our tally of increased usage across national and local TV, radio and digital sources shows a 2016 increase of 11.3 billion minutes of news consumption per week, compared to 2015.

US Shoppers Still Prefer to Make Most Purchases In-Store

Across a variety of categories, US shoppers prefer to make purchases in-store rather than through digital channels, according to a new report from Market Track, a provider of subscription-based advertising, promotion and ecommerce intelligence solutions.

Marketing That Matters

We live in a time of tremendous innovation, massive disruption, and constant change. Our customers are rewriting the rules on how they engage with brands, media, content, and each other. As marketers, we need to rethink the way we reach our target audience.  By Michael Brenner, author of The Content Formula

Growth hacks in marketing & advertising. Part 2.

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

  • Loosely defined, “growth hacking” is the constant tweaking of a product and its marketing to find the sweet spot of maximum user engagement with minimum friction.
  • By definition, it is a never-ending process.
  • Life in Beta mode.
  • Perpetual AB testing.
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