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Latin3 will will develop the 2015 digital brand strategy and manage all its social media channels.

This will be the first mass & social major marketing push in Europe by Miami-based DDM Brands to build awareness and momentum for Yezz, its fast-growing brand of mobile devices with various operating systems: Billy (Windows), Andy (Android), Foxy (Firefox).

Hispanic marketing agency G ADMarketing Communications has now become Semilla AD, a multicultural agency specializing in the evolving Hispanic segment, led by Gabriela Alcántara-Diaz and Shirley Attia.

Sprint has named Interpublic’s Deutsch L.A. as its new insight and creative agency of record.  In recents weeks, Deutsch L.A also hired a Montse Barrena – EVP Group Account Director and Juan Pablo Oubina – Executive Creative Director.  The Hispanic portion of the accounts seems to also be in play.

Havas announced the acquisition of Formula, an integrated communications and experiential marketing agency. With 100 staff members across offices in New York, Los Angeles, and San Diego, the new entity, Havas Formula, will be a full-service agency with practice areas in strategic communications, public relations, experiential, Latino, and experiential marketing.

Tampico Has selected Macias Advertising and Roar Media in the U.S, including General, Total and Hispanic markets.

Lapiz, a Chicago-based advertising agency for emerging cultures, promoted Lizette Morazzani to creative director.

NBCUniversal’s Hispanic Enterprises and Content announced that it has added República to its agency roster. República will report into Jacqueline Hernandez, Chief Marketing Officer, Hispanic Enterprises and Content, NBCUniversal.

ANA (Association of National Advertisers) recommends that clients generally not indemnify agencies for patent claims. Rather, agencies should assume the liability for their work product, including liability for patent infringement. Accordingly, client/agency contracts should include “indemnity clauses” which require that the agency step in and defend the client in the event of a patent infringement claim.

Wheeler joins la comunidad from Grey New York where he led the Volvo North America business as Executive Creative Director.

República has been named Best Agency Using Social Media to Reach Latinos by LATISM (Latinos in Tech Innovation and Social Media), the national organization for Hispanic professionals in technology and social media.

Carlos Calancha has joined MediaCom as the new CEO for its operation in Puerto Rico. He joins after several years working for Grey, first in Puerto Rico, followed by regional roles and most recently over three years as COO of Grey Peru.

Dallas Thompson joins integrated cross-cultural advertising agency, Sensis in Washington.

Pablo Buffagni announced the launch of his new shop, BBQ Agency Inc. The services will include traditional and non-traditional advertising, social media, media integrations and content.

Multidisciplinary brand culture and communications firm (add)ventures  is expanding its Miami office with the addition of Sue Tremblay as vice president of insights/analytics and Joel Velez as director of strategy/creative.

Publicis will acquire digital agency Sapiente for an estimated $3.7 billion, thus will also get La Comunidad as well to add to its roster.

I recently had a conversation with Mike Welch, who heads AT&T’s advertising business, and we very quickly found ourselves doubling back on our discussion to define the term “programmatic TV.” Impressed by the clarity of Mike’s take on the subject, and assuming that this “definition conversation” is happening in boardrooms and across lunch tables throughout the industry, I am herewith offering up a definition of programmatic advertising — particularly programmatic TV — in the public interest.

Digital place-based (DPB) media is establishing a spot in media plans. In July 2014 polling by the Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA), nearly 90% of US agency planners said they had included DPB media in their executed plans, and the majority of that group (48.5% of respondents overall) used the tactic in 20% or more of their approved and executed plans—up from 45.4% who did so in 2013. Meanwhile, the percentage of agency planners who didn’t include DPB media in their plans fell from 13.1% to 10.9% year over year.

This year, República won one Gold and 10 Silver Daveys for exceptional work on behalf of clients BankUnited, Baptist Health South Florida, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Goya Foods and Pernod Ricard Americas Travel Retail.

As far as industrial metaphors go, the notion of “buying time” has become a little ironic — and some might say, quite prophetic — for Madison Avenue. In its most common use, the term simply means to keep something going beyond its current functional capacity. In the ad industry, of course, it means something else: to buy time on media that consumers are spending their time with. But the way media-buying has historically worked, the term has actually been a misnomer. Advertisers and agencies have never really bought time. They have only bought proxies for moments in time when they assumed consumers might be present to look at their ads, considered their offers and be wowed by the awesomeness of their big creative ideas.