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Expounding on a new media-based agency campaign under the Unlimited Passion banner, Constanza spoke to HispanicAd.com in favor of her agency’s “combination of scientific media methodology with culturally-nuanced art-of-the-media plan-buy conception.”

In June, K2 Intelligence issued their report, commissioned by ANA, titled, “An Independent Study of Media Transparency in the U.S. Advertising Industry.” K2 found substantial evidence of non-transparent business practices in the U.S. market in the form of rebates as well as substantial evidence of potentially problematic agency conduct concealed by principal transactions.  ANA and Ebiquity/FirmDecisions have issued the much anticipated follow-up report titled, “Media Transparency: Prescriptions, Principles, and Processes for Advertisers,” which offer a number of recommendations.  By Bill Duggan, Group EVP, ANA

The long-standing digital divide in internet use between Latinos and whites is now at its narrowest point since 2009 as immigrant Latinos and Spanish-dominant Latinos make big strides in going online

Help the 4A’s address the critical issue of Gender and Diversity in the advertising industry.  Please take just a few minutes to share your thoughts and experiences on this important topic.

Options for funding entrepreneurial ventures are increasing in the U.S., particularly with the growth of crowdfunding and the prevalence of informal investors, but entrepreneurs still depend on bootstrapping and support from family and friends to finance startups—this according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2015 U.S. Report issued by Babson College and Baruch College.

Fantástico, which rolled out in June by multicultural marketing and promotions firm Schramm Marketing Group, will be rolling out an extensive out-of-home and experiential marketing campaign in parts of New York City next week.  By Adam R Jacobson

In this opinion piece, the author speculates on the future of advertising. Arguing that the challenge of predicting the future lies mainly in the lack of an acceptable definition of the field, the author solves that problem by developing a set of postulates to create boundaries for the theory and practice of the discipline.  By Don Schultz – Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Joash Brunet and artist and designer Kedgar Volta announced hey have launched Castaño Group, a new content production company specializing in immersive, interactive and multicultural audience experiences in a variety of broadcast, digital and physical formats.

Enjoy a video interview of Rick Marroquin with Tony Hernadez of the Immigrant Archive Project and a video by David Chitel dedicating a song to Rick.  What a great way to remember Rick.

Have you ever heard an acronym but you didn’t know what it meant? It can really throw you off your game in a conversation. I usually try to write it down discreetly or, if I have a laptop, look it up online without anyone seeing.  But industry-specific acronyms can have multiple meanings, and sometimes Wikipedia doesn’t do them justice.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers during a marketing campaign for the video game Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, by failing to adequately disclose that it paid online “influencers,” including the wildly popular “PewDiePie,” thousands of dollars to post positive gameplay videos on YouTube and social media.

As the ANA report generates increased discussion in the industry, and it will, those debates will also drive more transparency. The discussion is important – and it should be leveraged to put steps in place to help organizations get the most from their media investments.

As automation technologies such as machine learning and robotics play an increasingly great role in everyday life, their potential effect on the workplace has, unsurprisingly, become a major focus of research and public concern. The discussion tends toward a Manichean guessing game: which jobs will or won’t be replaced by machines?

Ebiquity’s subsidiary Firm Decisions has been summoned into court by Group M, WPP’s media buying agency.

There is a way for black women executives to increase their numbers in business leadership positions if conscientious and intentional steps are taken to recognize and reward their talents and contributions to business success.

Fantástico announced it has secured a corporate partnership with the New York Cosmos for the 2016 North American Soccer League Fall season.

Summer has officially kicked into high gear, which means the search is on for the perfect beach read. Of course, this always presents a problem—how to relax without looking mindless, and how to keep up with your industry without ruining a restful day at the shore?

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced that Isaac Lee has been named to the newly created position of Chief News, Entertainment & Digital Officer.

Few industries have been affected by the digital or information age as much as newspapers and other traditional publishing industries (books, magazines, etc.).

By Gonzalo López Martí / Creative director, etc / LMMIAMI.COM

• To spot the solutionist in the room, look for the dude or dudette who’s stealthily trying to play the team like a guitar, confounding the audience with esoteric BS while doing away with its hard-earned marketing & advertising budget.
• Solutionists, aka solutionistas, tend to be pathological meddlers and micromanagers.
• Their stock in trade is muddying the waters to make them seem deeper than they actually are.