Impress is a highly visible spot, currently airing during World Cup broadcasts in Los Angeles.Lopez Negrete Communications worked with Camilo Lara from the Instituto Mexicano del Sonido (Mexican Institute of Sound) on original music for the ad.
A new report released, “Hispanic Business Growth and the Mobile Future” details how mobile connectivity is fueling the thriving and dynamic Hispanic small business community. The report points to mobile technology’s fundamental role in the management, productivity and growth of Hispanic-owned firms. Hispanic entrepreneurs own more than 3.2 million businesses that together contributed over $468 billion to the American economy last year.
What professions do Hispanic Millennials really respect? And which hold little appeal for them? We’ve shown a lot in this blog about what Hispanic Millennials are doing for jobs, and what they would like to be doing in their own careers. Here, we’re going to take a step back and show how they feel about different types of work in general.
The World Cup is one of the best, real-time and global brand sponsorship opportunities, but it seems a brand doesn’t need to shell out hefty sponsorship fees to FIFA to get the benefit of it. More than a third of consumers identified MasterCard as a sponsor of the 2014 futbol games, even though MasterCard has not been an official sponsor since 2006.
The new study, The Latino Media Gap: The State of Latinos in U.S. Media, was released by Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. The study was created in collaboration with the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA), the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and the National Latino Arts, Education and Media Institute (NLAEMI).
By Gonzalo López Martí@LopezMartiMiami
Amazon came out with a cell-phone.
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Hispanics and Millennials are two of the fastest growing and increasingly important consumer groups in the U.S. So it’s no surprise that marketers are eager to understand how to connect with these populations. But to engage with those who fall in both groups, Hispanic Millennials, it is imperative to understand the impact of language in order to optimize messaging for this demographic that increasingly identifies as bilingual.
Total advertising expenditures increased 5.7 percent in the first quarter of 2014 to $34.9 billion, according to data released by Kantar Media.
A number of research studies – from Pew and others – have confirmed that the incidence of use and frequency of use of the Web among U.S. Latinos rivals – and sometimes even surpasses – the levels of other Americans. Yet survey research data collection via the Web continues to pose challenges when the target is Hispanics. Especially if the survey target includes Spanish-dominant and/or less-acculturated Hispanics, building adequate samples has historically been problematic. By Peter Roslow – President, Roslow Research Group / Adjunct Asst. Professor, Hofstra University
Over the last couple of weeks, we have received calls from industry professionals and media trade outlets alike asking us if Univision Communications Inc. is worth the $20 Billion price tag. By Gene Bryan / CEO – HIspanicAd.com
A clear majority (62%) of American consumers who use social media says it has “no influence at all” on their purchase decisions, according to a new poll of over 18,000 U.S. adults conducted by Gallup. That compares to 30% who said it has “some influence,” and just 5% who said it has a “great deal of influence.”
Week two of the global FIFA World Cup party. So far the event is delivering great entertainment, except when you are Brazil. Brazil’s team is struggling to live up to its unrealistic lofty fan expectations, and there are still daily protests in Brazil against the enormous expense at which this festival comes. The Brazilians love football, but hate FIFA and their own government.
LATCOM announced that they have named Arthur Rockwell as Executive Vice President, US effective June 30, 2014
The study exposes the changes in both marketing and PR professionals’ worlds. In PR, it reveals a move towards digital and social media. In marketing, a struggle to grasp digital media technologies emerging in their space. Along with these notable shifts, it also shines light onto common myths upheld within the industries.
The Big Data (Internet) of Things movement can help clarify the measurement to help everyone make money and build programmatic for brand building and buying. Measurement needs to keep up with the needs of the cross-platform world, and programmatic needs to advance with big data beyond bidding based on price, publisher-perceived quality and viewablity.
There’s no question that the development of better analytical tools and approaches in recent years has given business leaders significant new decision-making firepower. Yet while advanced analytics provide the ability to increase growth and marketing return on investment (MROI), organizations seem almost paralyzed by the choices on offer. As a result, business leaders tend to rely on just one planning and performance-management approach. They quickly find that even the most advanced single methodology has limits.
For the first time in nearly two decades, immigrants do not account for the majority of Hispanic workers in the United States. Meanwhile, most of the job gains made by Hispanics during the economic recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-09 have gone to U.S.-born workers, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data.
Despite a constantly changing audio landscape, broadcast radio controls more than half of the more than four hours a day that Americans spend with all sources of audio. But the audio space is vibrant and changing – and newer sources of audio, from Internet-only services like Pandora and Spotify, to Satellite Radio, and even TV music channels like Music Choice now account for nearly a quarter of all listening.
JWTIntelligence launched Personality Atlas: The World Map Redrawn, a report and interactive website that envisions a world map redrawn according to personality type. Which countries would share borders? In which hemisphere would each reside? What can multinational marketers learn from this reimagined map, especially as they look to expand into new markets and strengthen their presence in others? And with which country does your personality most align?
Targeting older adults has been relegated to “niche” status. Niche markets are assumed to be smaller and extremely well defined. The Senior consumer market, comprised of more than 23 million seniors and another 81 million baby boomers, is more than 100 million strong. It is diverse, in terms of ethnicity and lifestage.
