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It’s Tough to Make High-Quality Native Content

Many marketers are hopeful that native content creation will seamlessly integrate their messaging with what consumers are already reading and watching on social channels. But there are growing pains.

The end of tokenism? Part 3

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

  • Silicon Valley has nurtured a generation of people who are willing to spend $300 on a trashy tattoo yet won’t shell out a dime to read The New York Times.
  • We’ve been tamed to believe search, social, news, long distance calls, music, movies, file storage, you name it, are supposed to be free of charge.
  • Some sort of human right.
  • Who knows what we’re relinquishing in exchange.
  • Time will tell.

The Latino-Infused CPG [INSIGHT]

A few decades ago, Frito-Lay was onto something. The year was 1994 and they realized that there were a lot of Latinos in Los Angeles. They also realized that Latinos had different taste palates and over-indexed in the salty snacks category. So they decided to launch “Sabrositas,” a series of Latino-infused (Limón, Chile, etc.) line extensions for the Frito-Lay brand.  By Roberto Siewczynski – SVP, Group Director – Epsilon

Nielsen to Deliver All-Electronic Measurement to Local TV Markets in 2017 and Retire Paper TV Diaries

Nielsen announced that by mid-2017, it will provide all electronic measurement in its local television ratings across all 210 designated market areas (DMAs). Nielsen will incorporate Return Path Data from set-top boxes and other electronic measurement into local services, including the 140 TV markets currently measured by paper TV diaries. The integration of Return Path Data will pave the way for the retirement of paper TV diaries in early 2018.

PROBLEMS UNSOLVED AND A NATION DIVIDED – The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2016 [REPORT]

This report provides an overview of our findings on the evolution of the U.S. economy, the state of U.S. competitiveness in 2016, and priorities for the next President and Congress, drawing on our research and the May–June 2016 surveys of alumni and the general public.  While a slow recovery is underway, fundamentally weak U.S. economic performance continues and is leaving many Americans behind. The federal government has made no meaningful progress on the critical policy steps to restore U.S. competitiveness in the last decade or more.  By Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, Mihir A. Desai, With Manjari Raman

The Road to the ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference

For Eric Reynolds and his team at Clorox, diversity has been a cornerstone of their efforts to create teams that help keep the company and its brands vibrant. “We set ambitious goals for attracting, retaining, and developing diverse talent,” says Reynolds, CMO at the Clorox Co. “We believe that diverse, robust teams create better strategies and ideas, and certainly more exciting creative.”  By Crystal Albanese, senior manager of committees and conferences at ANA

3 Stats That Show How Millennials And Teens Are Disrupting Entertainment

In our recent monthly survey on entertainment, we looked into young consumers’ spending on everything from TV to the written word, asking them “In an average month, which of the following forms of entertainment do you spend money on?” Their responses paint a clear picture of their disruptive tendencies, and how their spending supports the non-traditional media access that has upended multiple industries.

U.S. Latino Population Growth and Dispersion Has Slowed [REPORT]

Between 2007 and 2014, the U.S. Hispanic population grew annually on average by 2.8% (its pace of growth has been an even slower 2.4% between 2010 and 2014). This was down from a 4.4% growth rate between 2000 and 2007 and down from 5.8% annually in the 1990s. As a result, the Hispanic population, once the nation’s fastest growing, has now slipped behind Asians (whose population grew at an average annual rate of 3.4% from 2007 to 2014) in its growth rate.

Global ad market strengthens

Global advertising expenditure will grow 4.4% this year to reach US$539bn, ahead of the 4.1% previously forecast in June, according to Zenith’s new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. Advertising expenditure will then expand by 4.5% in 2017 and 4.6% in 2018 – up from the previous growth forecasts for both years, which were 4.3% and 4.4% respectively. By 2018 global advertising expenditure will total US$589bn, US$4bn more than forecast in Ju

2016 U.S. Mobile App Report

Digital media time in the U.S. continues to increase – growing more than 50 percent in the past three years, with nearly 90 percent of that growth directly attributable to the mobile app.

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