Meet today’s American Consumer
Compared with the rest of the world, Americans are feeling pretty good about their finances. While many consumers in other countries are living paycheck to paycheck and worrying about becoming unemployed, American consumers are comparatively unconcerned about their household’s financial future. This isn’t to say that US consumers are exuding confidence: financial-market volatility and the political uncertainty surrounding the upcoming presidential election are stoking fears of another downturn. By Max Magni, Anne Martinez, and Rukhshana Motiwala

Over the last 30 years, business intelligence evolved from a cottage industry—whose main tool was a desktop computer—to a mature business using centralized, enterprise-wide analytic platforms underpinned by an enterprise data warehouse. By Ian Dudley, Enterprise Architect
Univision News has launched an English-language section within its digital platform, UnivisionNoticias.com titled “Univision News.”
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
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
Orcí hired Luiz Salles as Senior Vice President, Head of Strategic Planning and Susan Page as Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships.
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























