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ANA New Marketing Ethics Code Essential to Consumer Trust
Self-regulation and ethical marketing is critical to the success of the marketing and advertising industry as it hinges on building consumer trust over the long term. Best practices lead to solid growth over time, while unethical marketing leads to broken reputations and loss. We have all seen poor practices by marketers. The Center reviews hundreds of consumer complaints about marketing each year — and most are easily remedied through best practices and common solutions.
What Marketers Need to Know When Their Agencies Act as ‘Principals’
Principal-based trading is ‘everywhere,’ industry observers say. Marketers need to define their comfort level with the practice. Agencies that secure ad space for marketers are increasingly buying inventory and taking ownership of the media they then resell to those clients, versus buying it on behalf of that marketer as an agent.
Using Principal Media Requires a Keen Eye
Brands need to push for transparency if they buy media from their agency partners, per a new study
Outlook of an Eternal Optimist: Status Report of an Unsinkable Industry
The first half of 2024 has been nothing short of a whirlwind. Ad industry conversations have centered around many exciting opportunities, like using Generative AI as a tool to elevate all steps of the creative storytelling process, from research to insights to a much broader scale of personalized content. At the same time, we are having substantive discussions around major barriers that can thwart our clients’ ability to evolve at the pace of the changing consumer landscape. One would be the mounting attempts at undoing DEIB practices and protocols, which can – and has – had a direct impact on the priority placed and budgets allocated to Multicultural Marketing. Another is the legislative agenda to strip any consumer data related to race, ethnicity and other identity-related demographic information from critical data sources, which can severely limit our ability to identify, study, reach and engage the multicultural consumer segments with the most relevant content and brand solutions. By Louis Maldonado
NFL Selects MEL to Rally U.S. Latinos to Make Their Voices Heard and Score Votes This Election Season
This year, the NFL partnered with the Hispanic integrated communications agency MEL to launch a non-partisan "Latino Votes" national campaign encouraging U.S. Latinos to vote for their country’s future as part of the NFL Votes initiative. The initiative focuses on three components of the electoral process, voter education, registration, and activation, and encourages eligible voters to actively engage in the upcoming election cycle by helping them prepare for election day.
Is the Ad Agency Model Broken? [PODCAST]
Agency-client relations are seldom easy, even for companies that have been partners for years. However, in the last few years — amid the unrelenting wave of online marketing and digital media — agency-client relations have become even more problematic.
Advertising Ethics in the Age of AI
A deluge of personal and societal threats — from economic inflation to misinformation online to climate change — have left consumers feeling vulnerable. And when consumers feel vulnerable, trusting the brands they engage with becomes even more important.
Differentiating skills in the AI era
AI is taking centre stage and change is in the air. The challenge for marketers is to understand what needs to change and what should stay the same.
Latinas Leading Survey [WE need your participation]
We need less than 5 minutes of your time to answer this survey. Let’s get an XR and understand the leading roles of female professionals in the US Hispanic advertising, marketing, media, public relations and research industries.
Building a Thriving In-House Agency Environment
Often, corporate purpose and values define what a company prioritizes, but the company's culture stems from its employees' attitudes, behaviors, and interactions. When it comes to culture, it's not about talking the talk but walking the walk.
Latinas Leading Survey [WE need your participation]
We need less than 5 minutes of your time to answer this survey. Let’s get an XR and understand the leading roles of female professionals in the US Hispanic advertising, marketing, media, public relations and research industries.
Spotlight: Uncovering agency use of generative AI [VIDEO]
WFA research reveals that only 3% of brands are fully aware of how their partners, including media and creative agencies, are using generative AI on their behalf. However, only 8% have developed policies to guide their partners’ use of the technology. As a result, certain brands are placing restrictions (and in some cases, total bans) on partners’ use of AI, reflecting mounting concerns around the reputational and legal risks associated with its use.
What CMOs Need to Know About Agencies [VIDEO]
Razorfish’s Chief Strategy Officer Nic Chidiac spoke with Steve Olenski for The CMO Whisperer podcast to discuss the ins and outs of an agency relationship, how to effectively use AI, and what the changing role of a CMO means.
Agencies Should Always Act in the Clients’ Best Interest
Client/agency relationships were once predicated on the concept of a principal-agent relationship, where the agency had a fiduciary duty to act in their clients' best interest. When this concept was the accepted practice, most client/ agency agreements reinforced this expectation.
2023 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. Additionally, we are celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Association of National Advertiser's - ANA Multicultural Conference.
Casanova//McCann Named One of the Best Places to Work in Orange County
The awards program was created in 2009 and is a project of the Orange County Business Journal in partnership with Workforce Research Group.
Out-of-Work CMOs Crash Cannes Events – Claim They Lost Their Jobs Due to Hispanic Marketing Negligence
Out-of-work CMOs crashed the steps at the Palais, a Forbes CMO luncheon, an Advertising Week rooftop gathering and all along La Croisette. They were dressed in business casual suits, some carrying boxes with their office belongings, others with signs saying, “Available CMO after sleeping on the $3.4 trillion Hispanic marketing opportunity.” This was all part of the scene throughout the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, where the Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) made a bold statement for marketers to prioritize the U.S. Hispanic Market as part of its #STOPLATINOCOATING campaign.
Fixing the Ad Agency Model
Rachel Barek, CEO and co-founder of creative agency Said Differently, says advertising agencies have failed to evolve. "Companies have innovated in terms of the types of work that they do," she says. "But no agency was purpose-built from the ground up for all the needs of a modern CMO."
FREEDOM by: Jackie Bird
Editor’s Note: The passing of Jackie Bird last week had an enormous impact in our industry. As a tribute to the well-known advertising personality, HispanicAd.com invites you to read a piece she wrote in April 11, 2019. I found among her posts from RedBean Society at the time. It captures and conveys Jackie’s spirit, her ability to create, to re-invent herself, her love for advertising and marketing, and her contagious zest for life. In no small part, it also shows her daringness to take risks. I don’t think there is a better way to remember our dear Jackie Bird! —Gene Bryan, Publisher
