NBCUniversal Hispanic Group 2015 Upfront
NBCUniversal Hispanic Group’s annual Upfront presentation was at New York’s Frederick P. Rose Hall and hosted by NBC’s “Today” news anchor Natalie Morales and TELEMUNDO entertainment anchor and “La Voz Kids” host Jorge Bernal. Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales for NBCUniversal’s News and Hispanic Groups, Mike Rosen, unveiled the company’s go-to-market strategy– “All Together. Latino.”– to connect with U.S. Hispanic audiences across all of NBCUniversal’s networks and platforms. Executives also introduced an impressive array of digital opportunities for advertising partners and unveiled the 2015-2016 programming line-ups for TELEMUNDO and NBC UNIVERSO, featuring more than 1,000 hours of original content.
NBC UNIVERSO announced the network’s 2015-16 programming highlights, which were unveiled tonight at NBCUniversal Hispanic Group’s annual Upfront presentation at New York’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.
ESPN Deportes announced at its Upfront in New York City today new initiatives focused on strengthening the network’s digital video offerings, original content lineup and diverse programming. Special guests included Spanish soccer star David Villa, who recently debuted with MLS’s newest team New York City FC, and ESPN Deportes’ on air commentators including Hugo Sanchez, Alejandro Moreno, Antonietta Collins, Alfredo Lomeli and recent Sports Emmy-award winner Ernesto Jerez. The presentation emphasized the importance of multimedia, multiplatform content and live programming to engage and reach the avid Hispanic sport fans, underscoring their power and relevance in sports consumption. The network’s success in delivering the most diverse sports programming will be the groundwork for the brand’s focus on live, diverse programming in 2016, highlighted by the return of the UEFA European Championship.
Estrella TV unveiled an innovative programming strategy for advertisers at its annual Upfront Gala at Bryant Park Grill in Manhattan. From a tented high tech stage setting, clients and advertising agency executives were given a glimpse of the network’s new content curation within the digital and social space.
Bummer for shareholders. And while I’m no stock picker, I’m enamored enough with Twitter’s new product, Partner Audiences, to not only recommend using this tool for hyper-targeting a CPG client’s best shoppers, but to perhaps look at this as a good time to buy an overly devalued stock. Note: Twitter got “perfect-stormed” last week when financial data aggregator, Serenity, ironically tweeted Twitter’s (did I just say that?) lower-than-expected earnings an hour before the planned release after the closing bell.
There is a growing generational gap in how diversity and inclusion is defined in today’s workplaces, according to “The Radical Transformation of Diversity and Inclusion: The Millennial Influence” a new study by Deloitte and the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative (BJKLI). The research shows that Millennials see inclusion as vital to business success and believe cognitive diversity is critical to engagement, empowerment, business growth and competitiveness. In contrast other generations tend to view it through the traditional lenses of demography, representation, and assimilation. 
Big Voice Communications (BVC), a woman-owned, independent public relations agency known for its strategic, multichannel strategies, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this month.
You think you’ve seen digital disruption? You haven’t seen anything yet. It’s just getting started. What’s been vertical disruption is about to go horizontal in a big way.
iHeartMedia announced the return of the iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina Presented by Sprint on Saturday, November 7, 2015. For the first time, the star-studded event will take place at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami and will broadcast on TELEMUNDO.
NBCUniversal’s Hispanic Group, executives from NBCU Hispanic Enterprises and Content announced plans to partner with DEFY Media. The alliance will build upon the combined pioneering expertise of each media company to develop new social and mobile content specifically designed for “Generation M” (Millennial, Mobile, Multicultural). 
English Proficiency Rising Among Latinos as Spanish Use at Home DeclinesA record 33.2 million Hispanics in the U.S. speak English proficiently, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.1 In 2013, this group made up 68% of all Hispanics ages 5 and older, up from 59% in 2000.
This is the third in a series of reports developed from RTDNA’s annual survey of newsrooms across the United States. Topics in the series include story coverage, what’s new online, social media and mobile strategies, television and radio technology, budgets and profits, stations doing news, news director profiles, and our most popular areas of research; newsroom salaries, women and minorities in newsrooms, and broadcast newsroom staffing.
Univision Communications Inc. hosted its annual Upfront presentation to unveil its 2015-16 programming line-up and to highlight how targeting U.S. Hispanics through Univision’s multiplatform portfolio is the way forward for marketers to fuel growth. At the UCI Upfront event, Univision announced that “La Banda,” the music-based, multi-media competition show developed by Simon Cowell’s SYCO Entertainment and Haim Saban’s Saban Brands and co-produced with FremantleMedia Latin America is back for a second season. Simon Cowell as executive producer brings SYCO Entertainment’s trademark talent for finding stars and creating great entertainment to Spanish-language television for the first time this fall. For the second season, “La Banda 2” will scour the U.S. for the ultimate Latina girl super group.
Close to 100 former employees of The Bravo Group, the legendary agency of the 90s, will gather in New York City on Saturday, May 16 right after the upfronts.
By Gonzalo López Martí – LMMIAMI.COM
Changes to the American demographic landscape is absolutely changing the way corporations market to consumers, overall. This new demographic reality has profound implications on a number of business disciplines, especially market research. David Burgos, Senior Vice President at TNS recently published a paper titled, Total Market: Driving Strategy in a Multicultural Nation, in a Multicultural Marketing Special Issue in the Journal of Brand Strategy, published by Henry Stewart Publications. This Special Issue, in addition to The Journal in Cultural Marketing Strategy soon to be published in 2015, were conceived by Jake Beniflah.
Nearly half of top executives say they weren’t effective at earning support for their new ideas when they moved into C-suite roles—and more than one-third say they have not successfully met their objectives during their tenures. But even successful transitions1 didn’t require new executives to have all the answers, and certainly not within their first 100 days in the job. These are among the key findings from a recent McKinsey Global Survey on executive transitions,2 which asked C-level respondents how they managed the business, culture, team, and self-management aspects of their new jobs.
A quarter (24%) of the American adult population, an audience of 59 million strong, is turning to original digital video programming at least once a month, according to the “2015 Original Digital Video Study” from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).
More than ever, marketers are under pressure to demonstrate their business value. In a March 2015 study by Demand Metric and VisionEdge Marketing, 83% of marketing professionals worldwide said the pressure to prove their business contribution had increased.
It seems that the recent hoopla with the end of “Sabado Gigante” has sent ripples across the grid with many alluding that this, in fact, is “the beginning of the end for Univision,” and while I agree that in a way it does symbolize the end of an era/format that is no longer reflective of today’s USH audience, I still don’t hear the fat lady singing. In fact, this is a day they knew would eventually arrive. Univision Will Be Just Fine Says Alma’s Media Director, Jorge Mercado.
