Advertisers Blend Digital and TV for Well-Rounded Campaigns

TV ad spending will grow at a fairly steady single-digit pace over the next several years. The growth rates are not exciting, but they are impressive given the sheer size of the market, according to a new eMarketer report, “US TV Ad Spending: Factors Shaping Today’s Television Market.”

Hispanic Adult Millennials and Drinking [INSIGHT]

St. Patrick’s Day, one of America’s booziest holidays, is next week. When it comes to drinking, what are Hispanic young adults’ preferences and habits? Tr3s has delved into its soon-to-be-released study of Hispanic Adult Millennials (ages 19-34), as well as Simmons data, to learn more about how they’re consuming alcohol.

Latinum Network launches VEO App

Veo, a new app for the U.S. Hispanic audience, provides a direct channel for major brands to engage with thousands of consumers.

Digital Life in 2025 [REPORT]

This report is the latest research report in a sustained effort throughout 2014 by the Pew Research Center to mark the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He wrote a paper on March 12, 1989 proposing an “information management” system that became the conceptual and architectural structure for the Web.  He eventually released the code for his system  — for free — to the world on Christmas Day in 1990. It became a milestone in easing the way for ordinary people to access documents and interact over the Internet — a system that linked computers and that had been around for years.

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. & AIRE Radio Networks champion SXAmericas 2014

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (SBS) & AIRE Radio Networks and SXSW join forces to launch SXAmericas a new program focused on harnessing the collective talent, idea pool and opportunities for U.S. and LATAM audiences. Officially launched March 11, SXAmericas will offer U.S. Latino and Latin American SXSW goers a deeper networking opportunity to discuss and address the latest industry opportunities for the Americas.

Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metrics Definitions [REPORT]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today released an updated version, the first since 2009, of its “Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metric Definitions” for public comment. Developed by the IAB Digital Video Committee, these definitions of commonly used analytic terms provide uniform language for the serving of in-stream digital video ads. This update incorporates terminology from the IAB Digital Video Suite (VSuite), which simplifies the technical execution of video advertising and enhances digital video advertising experiences.

Círculo Creativo and AHAA annouce Judges for the 2014 USH IDEA AWARDS

Agencies across the U.S. will have the opportunity to showcase the best of their Hispanic work in front of a who’s who collective of the best and most revered creative directors in the U.S. and Latin America. Círculo Creativo, in partnership with AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing, revealed a powerful list of judges for its Third Annual U.S.H. Idea Awards, which is accepting submissions through April 1st, 2014. The award, which recognizes the best creativity in U.S. Hispanic advertising, has added three new categories: public relations; branded content and entertainment; and integrated campaigns.

Day of the Day Craft Beer Are Beer Brewed & Owned by Mexicans

Austin Specialty Foods is leading the mission to bring authentic “real Mexican beer,” defined as brewed and owned by Mexicans rather than multi-national European beer, back to the U.S. market starting with the launch of the Company’s premium authentic brewed-in-Mexico beer brands, Mexicali Cerveza and Day of the Dead Craft Beer, in Austin.

Marketers use Influencer Marketing to launch Products, Share Content

Influencer marketing, considered by some to be a buzzword, is proving to be a beneficial relationship for both the marketers doing it and the influencers who participate, according to a January 2014 study by Augure—which defined an influencer as someone who is able to mobilize opinions, creates reactions when talking about a specific topic, has a large audience or base of followers and has a high degree of participation in a conversation on a given subject.

Millennials Prefer Cities to Suburbs, Subways to Driveways [INSIGHT]

Millennials are the social generation, both online and in-person. As the founders of the social media movement, they’re never more than a few clicks away from friends and family. And offline, they prefer to live in dense, diverse urban villages where social interaction is just outside their front doors.

Millennials in Adulthood [REPORT]

Graphic shows that among Millennials, Gen Xers, Boomers, and Silents, Millennials are more politically independent and more religiously unaffiliated.The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood. Now ranging in age from 18 to 33, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry— and optimistic about the future.

Women’s college enrollment gains leave men behind [INSIGHT]

College enrollment for women and men, by genderEven though college enrollment rates among young people have risen in recent decades, a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data shows that females outpace males in college enrollment, especially among Hispanics and blacks.

The Female/Male Digital Divide [INSIGHT]

In today’s digital and social media-driven world, consumers have the world at their fingertips, but are men and women’s fingers doing the same thing? A closer look into today’s rapidly evolving digital behaviors highlights the differences between what engages men and women—as well as how they react (or don’t) along the way.

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