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Online Research Panels and the Hispanic Market [INSIGHT]

When I worked on my first survey with Hispanic respondents, circa 1980, the best-in-class approach to reach a fully representative sample was to go door-to-door.  Of course, this was pre-cellphones, pre-internet and when Hispanic landline telephone penetration was around 70 percent.  The market was growing and evolving rapidly (and still is, but in different ways).  By the later part of the 80s we were able to complete fairly representative surveys via landline.  We’ve come a long way since those early years in Hispanic marketing, and for the most part, the Hispanic consumer is as savvy and sophisticated as the general market consumer, but there are still sampling nuances to take into account.  By Raul Lopez – Principle and Chief Research Officer / New American Dimensions

ANA Multicultural Excellence Award Winners – – Catching Up with Wells Fargo

In celebration of LGBT Pride Month, we continue our conversations with winners from last year’s Multicultural Excellence Awards with a look at the LGBT category Grand Prize Winner: Wells Fargo.  The winning campaign, “Learning Sign Language,” connected in an insightful, poignant way with LGBT consumers approaching the important life milestone of starting a family.  I was fortunate to speak with Michael Lacorazza (pictured), executive vice president and head of integrated marketing at Wells Fargo about what this honor meant for his team, their consumers, and the industry at-large.   By Talia Fisher, associate manager of committees and conferences at ANA

Understanding Millennial Moviegoers: A Data-Driven Playbook [REPORT}

So are Millennials the future of movie-going?  How often do Millennials go to the theater? What genres do they prefer? And how much do they spend on box office concessions? More interestingly Millennials are in a transitional phase of their life, so do they exhibit consistent behavior as a group?

Don’t Blame The Agency [INSIGHT]

It should come as no surprise that agencies have these kinds of practices around rebates and credits in place.  Every person who has ever worked in an agency environment knows this to be the case — it’s not much of a shock, although the press is treating it as such.  

Uncertainty Is The Key To Eroding Consumer Confidence [INSIGHT]

Previously, I’ve argued that consumer confidence is almost always determined by national economic conditions, rather than by global events, or events in one or more other countries. The one exception to that rule in recent memory was the 2009 financial crisis that originated in the U.S.  Because the U.S. makes up one-quarter of global GDP, the effects on confidence were felt worldwide.  By Louise Keely, president, Demand Institute, and SVP, Nielsen

Rebtel rebrands for Miami Hispanic market

Rebtel announced a total company rebranding in March and are working with Latino Tech Expert Ariel Coro of Tu Tecnologia to share the latest company programs with the Latino community in Miami.

Lessons from Latin America’s leading consumer-goods companies [INSIGHT]

The Latin American economy has seen better days. Over the past few years, Latin American countries have experienced slowdowns in both GDP and private-consumption growth, a rise in inflation rates, and devaluations in currency. In this difficult environment, consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) manufacturers must make careful choices and deliberately weigh trade-offs.  By Bruno Furtado, Felipe Ize, Antonio Rocha, and Miguel Suadi

Hispanic American Auto Buyers [REPORT]

Viant partnered with Millward Brown to publish a study focusing on U.S. shopping and media consumption habits among Hispanic Americans. The report, which drew on trends across verticals and device types, produced some interesting auto-related consumer behavior findings.

How to Use Influencers to Drive WOM [REPORT]

When it comes to the conversations that drive your brand’s sales – the back and forth of ideas and information between consumers – the person with the most influence isn’t likely a famous celebrity with a large following on Instagram – it’s your next door neighbor, your work colleague, perhaps even your teenager or your grandmother.

How America Views Homeownership [REPORT]

This study represents the third wave of the Homeownership Survey (benchmark study was conducted June 2014), gaining insight on the attitudes, opinions, beliefs and misperceptions that Americans have towards owning a home

Are Branded Communities Right For CPGs?

CPG brands have had a bifurcated relationship with consumers: marketers connect through consumer-facing advertising and rely on the retailer, as intermediary, for direct interaction and sales.

The entrepreneurial spirit of creatives. Or lack thereof.

By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc / LMMIAMI.COM

  • What is it with your average creative that he -or she- whines, kicks, screams and throws tantrums yet he -or she- rarely has the rocks to start his or her own agency?
  • How many agencies in America were founded by creatives?
  • How many agencies in the US Hispanic market were founded by creatives?

Hispanic Millennials Love Digital Shopping [INSIGHT]

There’s been a lot of talk about brands, specifically CPG brands, targeting online Hispanics, and for good reason. A 2015 Google study aimed to find out how much more engaged Hispanics are with digital marketing versus their non-Hispanic counterparts, and the findings were illuminating.  By: Lee Vann, Chief Strategy Officer, Captura Group

State of the News Media 2016 [REPORT]

Eight years after the Great Recession sent the U.S. newspaper industry into a tailspin, the pressures facing America’s newsrooms have intensified to nothing less than a reorganization of the industry itself, one that impacts the experiences of even those news consumers unaware of the tectonic shifts taking place.

Global Advertising Revenue Forecast to grow +5.4% in 2016

This year’s events (US elections, UEFA Euro 2016 , Summer Olympics in Brazil, and Copa America in the US) will generate incremental advertising spending and thus boost media owner advertising revenues compared to 2015 (when no such events took place.) Neutralizing the impact of those cyclical events in 2015, 2016 and 2017, the global advertising market would grow by approximately +4% in both 2015 and 2016, which suggests no significant acceleration in the underlying ad demand beyond the cyclical drivers, as the economic environment remains uncertain.

The ANA Report Considered

It’s been about a week since the ANA’s report into transparency hit the best seller lists. Lest we forget (and judging from some of the less temperate comments flying around some seem to have forgotten) the report was titled “An Independent Study of Media Transparency in the U.S. Advertising Industry.” It was not titled “Why Advertisers Hate the Holding Companies” nor “We Name the Guilty Parties.”  By Brian Jacobs The Cog Blog

ANA Alliance for Family Entertainment launches #SeeHer

Despite the strides made in recent decades to accurately portray women and women’s issues in the media, an unconscious bias persists against women and girls in advertising, media, and programming. In response, the Association of National Advertisers Alliance for Family Entertainment (ANA AFE) is spearheading an initiative to address it, #SeeHer.

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