Ad Agency

Eddie Gonzalez has departed his post as Chairman CEO Latin America and The Bravo Group at Young & Rubicam.

The Axis Agency announced the promotion of Wally Sabria to Executive Vice President of Digital and Social Media.

LatinWorks has been selected to create a campaign introducing Montejo, Anheuser-Busch’s first Mexican beer to the U.S. market.

Dallas-based agency Richards/Lerma has hired Quim Gil, as head of brand planning, effective immediately.

República unveiled its newly redesigned website www.republica.soy  .SOY is a new domain by Google, catering to the growing digital needs of the US Hispanic market. .SOY offers Hispanic consumers, brands, and publishers, a place to build, create and share culturally relevant web content.

McCann XBC announced that Joel Rodriguez has joined as Executive Creative Director.

The ad industry has always been consumed with the latest trends. This should be no surprise, given that marketers and their agencies spend the better part of their days trying to create them. But nothing in advertising has generated more buzz in recent months than programmatic buying. Buying ad inventory more efficiently by applying rules to technology-enabled, automated purchases has marketers salivating. And they’re putting their money where their mouths are, with some of the world’s largest advertisers reportedly planning to shift as much as 75% of their digital spend to programmatic buying over the next year.  By Chris Louie, VP Product Leadership

Newlink America and Chandler Chicco Companies announced the expansion of their alliance with the official launch of SALUTEAM.

República was recognized by the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) and presented with a 2014 National ¡BRAVO! Award, singling out the agency’s initiative for client Goya Foods, “Goya’s World of Flavor,” as the best “Integrated Marketing Campaign of the Year.”

Grupo Gallegos announce dthe hiring of Jennifer Rusin-Mull as Chief Marketing Officer.

Industry trailblazers, Al Garcia-Serra, Chairman/Co-Founder, MGCCOMM; Ahmad Islam, Co-Founder/Managing Partner, commonground; Manuel E. Machado, CEO/Co-Founder, MGSCOMM; Manny Vidal, President/CEO, The Vidal Partnership and Sherman Wright, Co-Founder/Managing Partner, commonground – announced the formation of the industry’s first wholly minority-owned holding company, phase one of a multi-phase rollout. This unique model, a holding company without walls, leverages each of their expertise in multicultural and millennial consumer groups to help client partners meet marketing and business objectives.

So what are the benefits of these deals for clients of the respective agency groups? Well, if you believe the glowing joint press releases, the agencies get access to bespoke research, unique data directly from the fire hose, new and exclusive ad formats and all sorts of other goodies only they will be able to pass on to their clients.

Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) launched a national advertising campaign aimed at U.S. Hispanics. The campaign, conceived by Grupo Gallegos, will target Hispanic consumers with advertising in TV, print and digital and will run through March 2015.

Casanova Pendrill will be part of the organization and judging panel in the fourth edition of “La Noche de los Cortos” which will take place in Los Angeles, California starting November first.

Casanova Pendrill (CP) announced the promotion of Alejandro Ortiz to Vice President, Creative Director. Mr. Ortiz manages all creative developed by the New York office. In addition, Jonathan Jauregui was promoted to associate Creative Director, reporting to Mr. Ortiz.

DirecToHispanic (DTH) announced that former Galavision and Univision.com President, Javier Saralegui, has joined DTH as a strategic advisor.

DishLATINO has secured Mexican actor and director Eugenio Derbez to star in its new multifaceted advertising creative, part of the brand’s overall “Me Conviene” campaign.

The campaign, entitled “Together,” includes both broad market and a new Hispanic initiative, the latter created by Louisville-based ad agency Creative Alliance.

Laura Termini, actress, entrepreneur and founder of CHICANOL.com a platform with 6 years developing digital campaigns for the general market , and Rory Lassanske creator of MamaContemporanea , has finalized a strategic alliance with Dospuntouno digital agency, with extensive experience of digital strategies in Latin America, to create SOMOSmedia, a joint venture of SOMOSentertainment and Dospuntouno

Haworth, an independent and employee-owned marketing and media agency based in Minneapolis, has announced a strategic partnership with GroupM, the media investment management division of WPP.