Are You Ready for Some Fútbol?
Mike Sievert – Chief Marketing Officer / T-Mobile
This week, the 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Brazil, and we’re helping to bring this awesome global spectacle to your living room – and your phone – in typical Un-carrier style.
The World Cup is an amazing, incredible quadrennial event, and T-Mobile’s Simple Choice plan is hands-down the best option for the hundreds of thousands of Americans travelling to the games – with unlimited data and texting and low-cost calls while in Brazil.
In today’s economy, jobs that were once abundant are now a scarce commodity. Many young people who grew up with high hopes of landing their dream jobs once they finish college have found their options to be severely limited. So what does it mean to be successful in a world where the elements that defined it to past generations-money, success, power-are so much harder to come by?
Fatherhood. It’s an institution that’s as old as the human race, but as a topic of discussion and research, it’s, quite frankly, novel. Dynamic changes in our culture during the sexual revolution and Great Society seemed to diminish the role of fathers drastically, but fatherhood is coming back in a strong way. By Henry Gomez – Senior Director of Strategic Planning at Marca
A new report, English-Speaking Ability of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2012, uses statistics from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to focus on the relationships between English-speaking ability and place of birth, level of education and years spent living in the United States.
Trust in programmatic buying has a long way to go, based on April 2014 polling by STRATA. According to the study, just 12% of US senior ad agency executives said they trusted programmatic buying to properly or accurately execute their ad orders. Though only 5% said they didn’t trust the tactic, 58% remained undecided, and one-quarter of respondents weren’t using programmatic buying at all.
The “Bedtime Stories” campaign is the latest in a series of highly lauded work Grupo Gallegos has produced in its 9-year relationship with the California Milk Processor Board. The agency won a Silver Effie in the Beverage (Non-Alcoholic) category for a previous iteration of the campaign in 2011. This year’s win came in the Hispanic category and was the only Hispanic work awarded Gold in the 2014 competition.
Airing in every single country on the planet, 3.2 billion watched the 2010 FIFA World Cup. One billion people tuned in to the finals alone — nearly 8X the number of people who saw last year’s Super Bowl! To gain some perspective on the power of the world’s most watched sporting event, here’s an exclusive Dieste video from our very own Director of Marketing Intelligence, Alex Martinez. HispanicAd.com will bring our readers priority access to Provoke 59 content from Dieste prior to it being available from any other platform. 
Long considered an up-and-coming sport to both watch and play, the popularity of soccer has been growing steadily since the rise of the soccer mom. In fact, advertisers and programmers looking for a unique opportunity to connect with fans outside well-established American sports, such as football or basketball, take note: the World Cup could be that space. After all, the sport’s fans are dedicated to the teams they root for, avid spenders and quite social when it comes to digital dialogue. Soccer’s fans are also a pretty diverse lot, which isn’t surprising considering it’s the preeminent sport throughout much of the world.
A broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws has been debated and discussed among policy makers for a dozen years, but Congress has yet to pass a bill. Last month, several Hispanic advocacy leaders criticized the president for policies that have contributed to the more than three million immigrants deported since 2004. Yet now, some Latino leaders are wondering if immigration reform is perhaps “crowding out other issues facing the Latino community.”Immigration is not top priority for Hispanics
Meredith Hispanic Media (MHM), publisher of Siempre Mujer and Ser Padres magazines, released findings from its Pharmaceutical Trend Report detailing the healthcare spending habits and attitudes of the modern Latina.
This report explores how CMOs from around the world are rising to the challenge of ‘going global.’ We invited 45 CMOs and senior marketing executives responsible for many of the world’s leading brands to reflect on the issues they have faced leading brand internationalization projects.
Querying sports enthusiasts from 11 markets – Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom, as well as the United States – who have smartphones and plan to follow the tournament, the survey reveals that 48 percent overall plan to use their phones to follow the World Cup, second only to TV (63%) when it comes to media channels for keeping up with the game.
Generation X has a gripe with pulse takers, zeitgeist keepers and population counters. We keep squeezing them out of the frame.
Women tend to be more likely than men to celebrate the dads in their family, particularly when it comes to sending cards (44% of women vs. 23% of men), taking the dads out for brunch/lunch/dinner (32% vs. 25%), calling (31% vs. 22%) or giving them some other type of gift (29% vs. 10%) for Father’s Day.
PepsiCo’s Global Snacks Group is launching its biggest worldwide, integrated marketing campaign ever. The campaign will feature international football superstar, Leo Messi, on millions of Lay’s packages, including 50 million bags in India, as part of a multi-dimensional effort that includes television advertising, and out-of-home, digital, in-store and point-of-sale executions.
Our findings in the, like other studies on Hispanic Millennials, are captivating marketers to focus on this key demographic today. The present focus of most companies is on how to better market to Hispanic Millennials to get them to buy their products and services. However, after having pored through the detailed data underpinning the project, I realized there is more to this research than some supporting data points on the how to better market to Hispanic Millennials today. Hidden in the data is a fascinating glimpse into a future marketplace where organizations have to fundamentally change their approach to the Hispanic market. By Jose Villa / Sensis
From the pre-tournament build up, through the final whistle, the LISTERINE Brand will react to the news of the day, recap the biggest matches and connect with sports and brand enthusiasts through its social channels and the hashtag #PowertoYourMouth. 
As the world suits up for the largest sporting event this year, Hyundai kicks off the 2014 FIFA World Cup with a complete 360˚ integrated marketing platform that celebrates fan passion.
