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2025 Hispanic Market Thought Leaders – Available for DOWNLOAD for FREE

HispanicAd offers its annual report on key industry trends and honors the Top Marketing Executives with US Hispanic & Multicultural area. This report offers an depth analysis of the executives and their companies setting the standard of excellence for the US Hispanic Marketing industry.
Strategic Reset.

Strategy is “future competitive advantage”. What will the people we sell to need in the future? Who will we be competing with in the future? Given these people needs and competitors what advantage will we provide? A case can be made that every organization and every individual who has not updated their strategy in the past three years must do so with urgency because we are seeing the contours of the future shift dramatically. By Rishad Tobaccowala
Cross-media ad strategies are evolving—Here’s what’s missing in your ROI equation

With consumers engaging with content across more channels than ever before, optimizing spend is critical to ensure you’re reaching your audience where they are. Yet a significant hurdle remains: the fragmented nature of media investments and the resulting measurement challenges. This fragmentation makes it harder to get a unified view of return on investment (ROI), leaving many advertisers struggling to understand the true impact of their campaigns.
The State of the Hispanic-American Consumer 2025 [REPORT]

As the Hispanic population continues to shape the America's cultural and economic landscape, understanding their evolving attitudes and behaviors is more important than ever.
TV DECONSTRUCTED: INSIDE HISPANIC TV VIEWING [REPORT]

The ARF DASH TV Universe Study captures in detail how American households connect to and consume TV across platforms and devices. Hispanic Heritage Month and the release of the first wave of DASH 2025 offer a timely opportunity to look into the TV habits of Hispanics, a segment that now represents more than 15% of US households.
And the best part: I get to do it with Argentine Beef — my dream account.

This new work from BBQ Agency feels a little more personal. It’s inspired by comments I often get from fellow Argentines ever since I got used to eating my beef less done. By Pablo Buffagni
So why does digital still lag traditional media from a marketing effectiveness POV?

It feels like all we do is spend time with digital media - social, apps, online browsing, streaming etc. So why does digital still lag traditional media from a marketing effectiveness POV? By Kevin Goodwin - SVP of Strategy & Growth @ New Engen
CFOs and B2B Marketers Are Aligned on Growth, But Not on Brand

In B2B companies, CFOs and marketers are often at odds over brand. Marketing leaders push for investment in awareness, storytelling, and reputation-building, while finance executives question the tangible return on those dollars.
2024 New Foreign-Born Population by Generation Data Tables

The Census Bureau released new data tables from the 2024 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC). These tables provide information on employment status, education, occupation, household income, poverty status, race, age and sex, and other social and economic statistics for the foreign-born population by generation.
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Chairman Urges Google CEO to Address YT Issues Impacting U.S. Hispanic Audiences

Given the ongoing carriage dispute between NBCUniversal and YouTube TV, Telemundo, a division of NBCUniversal, faces the possibility of being removed from the platform. This would deprive millions of Latino and Hispanic viewers of access to essential news, sports, and entertainment.
2025 Outlook Study September Update: A Snapshot of the Latest Ad Spend Trends, Opportunities, and Strategies for Growth [REPORT]

The IAB 2025 Outlook Study: September Update is a follow-up to the initial January 2025 release, providing an updated snapshot of projected ad spend, opportunities, and challenges for 2025. It provides revised market- and channel-level forecasts for 2025, plus insights into how buyers expect the imposed/proposed tariffs to affect ad spend.
Most sponsorship proposals fail because they’re sales decks, not stories.

Too many rightsholders still lead their proposals with what they have to sell — logo placements, hospitality, social media slots. But brands don’t buy assets. They buy outcomes.
THE LATINO ROI in 3.5 hours of authenticity, passion & CULTURE:

Amazon reported gains of over 250,000 new Prime subscriptions following the global livestream of Bad Bunny's final concert in his Puerto Rico residency on September 20, 2025. By Jennifer Wynns, M.A. - Vice President of Digital & Multimedia Sales, US| Data Driven| Solutions Catalyst| Consultant| DEI Advocate
Radio Pumps Up Marketing Effectiveness

The pressure is on almost every marketer. A whopping 95 percent of marketing leaders say their teams are under more pressure than ever to prove marketing's value, according to "CMSWire's 2025 State of the CMO Report." Equally worrisome, the report, based on the responses from 515 marketing leaders, found that 69 percent of marketers feel the gravity of responsibility to deliver quantifiable ROI, up from 59 percent in 2023. Using audio media platforms to amplify brand-building efforts — and drive full-funnel results — could be the solution to relieve the pressure.
Incrementality vendors love to tell you: “Run another test. Validate another model.”

Incrementality vendors love to tell you: “Run another test. Validate another model.” But at what point have you run enough tests to actually make a decision? And the moment you finish that validation cycle, the environment has already shifted. Economic conditions change. Consumer behavior changes. Competitors change. So is your Chicago holdout test really the right answer for your national strategy? Is that
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗕𝗲 𝗢𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗣𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗸? (Based on What Has Worked for Successful Startups)

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗕𝗲 𝗢𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗣𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗸? (Based on What Has Worked for Successful Startups). Every founder I coach asks me this question at least once.
Gen Z Sees AI Automating 20% of Their Future Full-Time Jobs but Are Confident in Ability to Adapt to AI Advancements in Their Field

Half of Generation Z (Gen Z) interns expect 20% of their jobs to be automated by AI when they start full-time roles, but 92% are confident in their ability to adapt to AI advancements in their fields, according to a new survey from KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm.
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2024

The U.S. Census Bureau today announced that real median household income was $83,730 in 2024, not statistically different from the 2023 estimate of $82,690. The official poverty rate fell 0.4 percentage points to 10.6% in 2024. The following 2024 findings were all not statistically different from 2023.
Social Media and News Fact Sheet

Digital sources have become an important part of Americans’ news diets – with social media playing a crucial role, particularly for younger adults. Overall, about half of U.S. adults (53%) say they at least sometimes get news from social media, roughly stable over the last few years.