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Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced the promotion of Roberto Ruiz to executive vice president, Strategy and Insights, effective immediately.

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) has appointed Sameer Deen to the position of senior vice president, Univision Digital.

By Gonzalo López Martí  –  LMMIAMI.COM

• In the not-so-distant 90s telcos made their money on long distance calls for business & residential land lines.
• That’s where the gravy was at.
• Remember the fax?
• The race to reinvent themselves as internet service providers & mobile operators left many a corpse belly-up by the road.
• Three letters: MCI.
• They got complacent.
• They didn’t see it coming?

$25 billion worth of media reviews has been announced  in the last few months. So is this a statistical anomaly, or a sign that after 20 years of endless talk about change, clients are finally making demands that agencies do so?

eMarketer estimates that US programmatic digital display ad spending will leap 48.9% this year to hit $14.88 billion, or 55.0% of total digital display ad spend. While the majority of those dollars will likely focus on direct-response efforts, April 2015 research by Econsultancy in association with Quantcast finds that programmatic branding adoption is relatively high, and spending will rise in the coming years.

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced the appointment of Jessica R. Herrera-Flanigan to executive vice president, Government Relations and Public Policy, effective immediately.

In a gesture of generosity, Daisy Expósito-Ulla shares her Award of Agency of the Year with all Hispanic and Multicultural agencies in the U.S.

After more than a decade of digital disruption across the entertainment & media (E&M) industry, the distinction between digital and traditional media is deemed irrelevant in the minds and wallets of consumers, according to PwC’s annual Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2015-2019. The E&M industry is now a multifaceted ecosystem – with new digital offerings creating a bigger, more diverse content universe and with digital accelerating delivery across platforms – whereby consumer choice is paramount.

Constellation Brands announced that internationally-renowned soccer player Miguel Layún will serve as brand ambassador for Modelo Especial. The brand has partnered with Layún as part of its summer marketing campaign, which centers around the sport of soccer.

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI)announced the promotion of Chiqui Cartagena  to the position of senior vice president in the Political and Advocacy Group, effective immediately.

For all the talk of fragmentation in media, isn’t it funny how similar the digital media business is to the old TV business?  Take a second and think about it from the perspective of a mainstream advertiser.

Rudy Ferrer, President & COO of Delta Media inducted intoOutdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) Hall of Fame Rudy Ferrer, President and COO of Delta Media, was inducted into the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) Hall of Fame on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.

According to the Media Consumption Forecasts, a new report by ZenithOptimedia, people will spend an average of 492 minutes a day consuming media in 2015, up 1.4% from 485 minutes a day in 2014. This increase will be driven by the rapid growth in internet use, which will increase by 11.8%.

By Gonzalo López Martí  –  LMMIAMI.COM

• What kind of innovation can come out of an organization that buries its talent under layers of hierarchy, paperwork, processes and reporting duties?
• So you are a writer, an art director, a designer, a web dev?
• You spend 10 hours a day in a cubicle working for a multinational corporation?
• And you call yourself a creative?

Challenges to growth are nothing new. But these challenges are now changing with shifts in culture. We have now entered a “post-ownership age”, with rapidly changing consumer behaviours and attitudes. Consumers’ perception of needs have transformed as the burden of ownership has developed in response to the recession. People see ownership as adding layers of responsibility and worry to their already busy lives.

Marketers in the TV entertainment industry used to dance to a nice, predictable cadence. Programming was synced with the school year and punctuated by regularly recurring ratings periods like the just-completed May Sweeps. Three major networks had a captive audience that obligingly showed up at appointed times and watched programs from end to end.

Four sports marketing executives and a broadcaster from the U.S. and South America were charged with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies along with nine leaders of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), soccer’s governing body, in a 47-count indictment unsealed early this morning. Many of the defendants were rounded up in a luxury hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, where they were gathered for FIFA’s annual meeting.

By Gonzalo López Martí  –  LMMIAMI.COM

• If, like yours truly, you run a more or less conventional advertising operation you might be quite aware by now of the fact that there’s an awful lot of excess capacity out there.
• Brainpower for hire.
• Free agents.
• Galore.
• They are hungry.
• They are equipped.
• They are MILLENNIALS.

At a time of stagnating markets, technological disruption, and rapid changes in consumer behavior, where can big brands find growth? One popular path is through brand extension: stretching a brand into an adjacent market where its value proposition is still relevant to consumers. Classic cases include Colgate’s sideways move from toothpaste to toothbrushes, Nivea’s from body care to hair care, and Gillette’s from razor blades to shaving foam.

The media community is allocating more budgets and more inventory to programmatic buying, according to Wave Three of the new Programmatic Advertising Report released by Advertiser Perceptions. And while buyers are focusing their efforts on better performance and a stronger ROI, sellers are looking for easier to use products, improved audiences and more premium inventory.