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Are Cultural Competency Gaps Driving Shortsighted Decisions [INSIGHT]

Much talk has surfaced lately about the whether it makes sense to have a total market strategy. Some contend that the intent of a “total market” strategy, which is to recognize target consumers’ needs, culture and behavioral characteristics in the formulation of a company’s marketing strategy is more often misunderstood or not understood at all. This has resulted in “total market” strategies which homogenize how organizations communicate with consumers and which under emphasize and even ignore cultural nuances that work to powerfully connect consumers and brands.  By Terry Soto is President and CEO of About Marketing Solutions, Inc.

Shopper Marketing Is Hit Or Miss With Millennials [INSIGHT]

Virtually every brand we work with is trying to win Millennials and it’s not surprising why. Eighty million shoppers with one trillion dollars in buying power are hard to ignore. But equally hard to ignore are recent stats that show when it comes to shopper marketing, Millennials know what they want.

Growth of Time Spent on Mobile Devices Slows

Not surprisingly, Americans are spending an increasing share of their time on their mobile devices. But according to the latest eMarketer forecast, the channel’s growth rate is slowing considerably.

If You Rebrand Advertising, Would Creatives Or Consumers Be Impressed? [INSIGHT]

Sir Martin Sorrell has a strong point of view on the names of things. Here he is on linking his own company with the term “advertising”: “We need to rename it because it encourages people to think that creativity is the preserve or reserve of that creative department, of that creative director in that so-called ad agency,” said the WPP Group chief executive at an Advertising Week event.

Lines Among Content Creators, Distributors and Brands Have Blurred for Consumers [INSIGHT]

Edelman revealed the results from its ninth annual entertainment study, which found that when it comes to creating entertaining content, consumers equally trust content creators, distributors and brands (72 percent trust traditional cable networks; 73 percent trust traditional broadcast networks; 74 percent trust online video streaming platforms; 75 percent trust companies whose products they buy).

Hispanic CMO 2015 – – Coming on Monday November 9, 2015

Hispanic Media Sales, Inc., publishers of HispanicAd.com, will be publishing this year;s edition on November 9, 2015.  We will be adding more “Thought Leadership” once again to this year’s edition.  We will interview the Top Hispanic CMOs with dedicated budgets and resources targeting the US Hispanic Consumer.    Gilbert Davila, a recognized and admired Hispanic Market expert, will curate the supplement.  Adam Jacobson, a respected writer and US Hispanic media expert will conduct the interviews and write the supplement.

A User’s Guide to Cross-Channel Concepting [INSIGHT]

Our industry trades on ideas. Oftentimes, we compete to win or lose based on the quality of those ideas. Creative ideas. Media ideas. Social ideas. But the typical path to get to big ideas has been to perfect something for one channel, then think of the extensions that amplify it in the store, on the web and everywhere in between.

What Is the Visual Web?

The visual web is many things to many people—and marketers. According to September 2015 polling, most US brand marketers can’t put just one definition to the term: It includes design, advertising and even anthropological phenomena. What is clear is that it’s important.

Is market research still necessary in the age of social media? Part 2

By Gonzalo López Martí / LMMIAMI.COM

  • Many a garden variety strategic planner will bump into a lame remark from some nobody or other on the twitterwebs and quote it like gospel.
  • This is happening now.
  • A lot.
  • Social media is increasingly replacing market research in our line of business, whether we like it or not.
  • However, as any statistician fresh out of college can tell you, a sample survey is not statistically accurate if it’s not harvested randomly.
  • That’s why social media is pretty fuzzy from a scientific POV.
  • Even fuzzier than those darned focus groups.

Millennials demand more from Brands In Live, Digital Music Experiences [INSIGHT]

Music marketing and brand experience agency Momentum Worldwide has conducted a research study aimed specifically at identifying the connection between live and digital music behaviors. Among the findings is that millennials, defined as people ages 18-34, want to see brands in the music space and enjoy seeing them there.

Teens, Technology and Romantic Relationships [REPORT]

Adolescence is a time of incredibly physical, social and emotional growth, and peer relationships – especially romantic ones – are a major social focus for many youth. Understanding the role social and digital media play in these romantic relationships is critical, given how deeply enmeshed these technology tools are in lives of American youth and how rapidly these platforms and devices change.

Both Head and Heart [REPORT]

“Both Head and Heart” looks at marketing strategies designed to broadly connect with diverse audiences and the subsequent emergence of “Total Market.”

Optimistic outlooks are highest among Black and Hispanic Americans

The roughly one in four Americans expecting the economy to improve in the coming year is all but unchanged from June (26%, vs. 25% in June). However, pessimism continues to grow, with three in ten Americans expecting the economy to get worse in that time (30%, up from 27% in June and 21% at the beginning of the year).

Hey, What About Metrics For Brand Marketers?

For decades, brand marketers have relied on survey-based methodologies to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns.  Survey-based measurement can certainly be executed correctly within a margin of error, but the results are heavily dependent upon sampling methods that pose a number of challenges:

Fernandez – VP Corporate Affairs at Cargill to be honored with HPRA Pioneer Award

Mike Fernandez, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Cargill was selected as the first-ever recipient of the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) National Pioneer of the Year Award. He will be recognized amongst colleagues during the 2015 HPRA National BRAVO Awards ceremony on October 8, 2015 at The New York Palace Hotel.

Fiore joins Fox Sports

Fernando Fiore makes his English-language debut next month as he joins FOX Sports’ coverage of the CONCACAF Cup, the winner-take-all playoff match between the U.S. Men’s National Team and Mexico for a berth in the prestigious 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

“ARMIDA Y LA FLAKA” radio show in Los Angeles

Media Latino Communications (MLC) announced that its midday show, “El Pajarete con Armida y La Flaka” has been picked up by Entravision’s popular station “Jose” in Los Angeles, with multiple frequencies, KDLD 103.1 FM / KDLE 103.1 FM and KLYY 97.5 FM, in the largest radio market in the U.S. 

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