Gustavo Martínez. Mauricio Sabogal. What were they thinking? What should we think?
By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc – LMMIAMI.COM
- As you might have read in Adweek, Adage, the New York Post, etc, etc, Gustavo Martínez, JWT’s worldwide chairman & CEO, is in trouble.
- Big trouble.
- The accusations are simply too serious.
- If you ask me his career in the rarefied stratosphere of the ad racket is over.
- Deservingly or not.
- Even if he manages to prove his innocence and win in court, the whole snafu is so toxic that he will have to step down sooner rather than later.
Our job is not always easy, since many times we need to manage the public relations process in the US Hispanic Market, which is solely Business to Consumer (B2C) driven. By Gene Bryan / Hispanic Media Sales, Inc.
PR campaigns targeted specifically at a business audience, known as B2B PR, differ from most consumer PR campaigns because you must sell the company first and the product or service second.
It takes a special kind of person to be successful in business-to-business (B2B) public relations. They need to be ambitious, excited at the prospect of understanding how companies operate, detail-oriented, creative and (in agencies at least) highly organised and efficient. By Heather Baker, @TopLineFounder
CMOs traditionally have focused on the big picture. They understand powerful consumer insights and seek to harness their agency partners to turn them into effective communications. There’s expectation and trust in this process. They sign off on the purchase of a box of 20 pralines but all too often what they get are three coffee creams.
Perspectives on Media Transparency from All SidesIn the past two decades, inventions and innovations have shifted how we consume media. From print to television to desktops to mobile, we’re now connected to publishers, advertisers and one another in an instant, from any place in the world. Just in the past four years, digital engagement by consumers has more than doubled, led primarily by the massive growth in mobile.
More adults make restaurant and retail purchases on the weekends than do so during the week, research found.
MundoMax, the U.S.-based Spanish-language broadcast network wholly owned and operated by media conglomerate RCN Television Group, announced the appointment of Jose I. Molina to Interim President
Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, introduced a new Spanish-language video about imposter scams at the Legislative Summit hosted by the National Association of Hispanic Publishers and the National Newspaper Publications Association.
Fernando Sánchez Servitje, grandson of Grupo Bimbo Co-Founder Don Roberto Servitje Sendra, has advanced his professional career by joining Legion Advertising LLC as an esteemed Partner and Director.
Among women in the typical age range with children younger than 18, most use the internet, smartphones and so on.
This software-advertising company, headquartered in Silicon Valley, is offering a full suite of enterprise applications available to US Hispanic market.
Many customer-experience transformations stall because leaders can’t show how these efforts create value. Patiently building a business case can fund them, secure buy-in, and build momentum.
The sharing economy is booming. Some of the most highly valued tech companies in the past decade have been spawned from this new economic model, tapping into the collective for services rather than a single entity. With sky rocketing valuations comes tremendous pressure to consistently increase revenue for investors in order to set themselves up for an eventual IPO.
“The Self Made Economy is more than a marketing mantra, bigger than a trend. It is a bona-fide phenomenon, a revolutionary call to action and a fundamental reboot of the way Americans are rising to the challenge of innovation in an information age society where disruption and change are the norm,” says Guy Garcia, President of New Mainstream Initiatives at EthniFacts. “Along with multicultural Americans, particularly immigrants; and millennials and young adults; women are the vanguard of the Self Made revolution, gaining and leading as entrepreneurs, heads of households and commanding more than $11 trillion in investable assets.”
A paper titled ’Positive Effects of Negative Publicity: When Negative Reviews Increase Sales’ by Jonah Berger, Alan T. Sorensen, Scott J. Rasmussen and published in Marketing Science finds that bad publicity can have positive effects, but only when the subject of the publicity is little-known.
Every time I speak with someone about Hispanic marketing, it is clear there is a huge disconnect between understanding the importance of reaching Hispanics and actually doing so. Marketers see the huge potential of this consumer group, so where is the disconnect? By Holly Pavlika, SVP of strategy, Collective Bias
Two things caught my eye last week here on Mediapost. One article summarized an ANA study suggesting that a growing number of marketers are taking programmatic in-house because… fraud and transparency: ). The other article stated that, according to research by Technology Business Research, of every dollar spent on programmatic only 40 cents reaches actual consumers!
