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Media sales veteran Rosy Marin will depart her post as Chief Revenue Officer at Pulpo Media, ten months after assuming the post.

According to ZenithOptimedia’s new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, global adspend will grow 4.9% to reach US$545 billion in 2015. The global economy is expected to improve (the IMF predicts 3.8% global GDP growth in 2015, up from 3.3% in 2014), but advertising faces a tough year-on-year comparison after the Winter Olympics, World Cup and US mid-term elections in 2014. Adspend growth will therefore be slightly below 2014’s 5.1%.  2016 will be a quadrennial year – with the Summer Olympics, US Presidential elections and the UEFA European Football Championship – and we expect these events to propel adspend to 5.6% growth that year, before it slips back to 5.2% in 2017 in their absence.

At its quarterly board meeting in New York City, AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing announced it has elected two new members to its Board of Directors: Carla Trum Mercado, Partner, CommonGroundMGS and Marco Lopez, Executive Vice President – Partner, elemento L2. As new board members, both will work closely with AHAA’s governing bodies and Executive Director Horacio Gavilan to support the organization’s advocacy initiatives and thought leadership strategies designed to increase corporate investment in Hispanic and multicultural marketing.

By Gonzalo López Martí / LMMIAMI.COM

• When judges make mistakes they lock them up.
• When surgeons make mistakes they bury them.
• When ad people make mistakes they run them on national TV, tweet them and post them on Facebook.

Now that we’re past Thanksgiving and holiday parties are already upon us, it’s time to think about 2015. While I don’t mind making predictions — it’s fun, and I’m always trying to understand what might be coming next — I thought I would be a bit contrarian today and write about what won’t happen next year.

The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) released the results of its 2014 HACR Corporate Inclusion Index (HACR CII).

Double-digit growth was expected to continue through 2018, when native ad investments in the US were forecast to reach $8.8 billion following a gain of 23.9% that year.

The rewards of corporate leadership accrue faster for men. Not only do women hold just one in nine of the executive and board positions in California’s top 400 public companies, an annual University of California, Davis, study shows that the women in top executive roles are not being promoted to the highest levels, and earn less than their male counterparts.

One recurring theme in the Pew Research Center’s journalism research over the last two years has been that of newsroom collaborations. In its examinations of nonprofit news outlets, newspaper innovations, statehouse reporting and digital startups, The center has encountered news providers teaming up in new ways. Legacy media outlets are looking more than ever for ways to augment what they can produce with a depleted staff, and news startups are eager to place their work before a wider audience and figure out roads to sustainability.

Like other shopper groups, Hispanics vary tremendously in terms of such demographics as income, age, country of origin, life style, and the use of digital, social and mobile communication platforms and how that impacts their path-to-purchase. However, unique to the Hispanic population is variation based on level of acculturation. Some Hispanics continue to prefer Spanish-language media, speak mostly Spanish and live in tight-knit Hispanic communities. At the other end of the continuum are the many Hispanics who are completely integrated into American culture and lifestyles.

The report looked at which online channels Hispanics use to shop, what motivates them to complete a purchase and how marketers can increase conversion rates for this segment. These fresh insights on Hispanic shoppers will be of value to marketers in the midst of their holiday campaigns.

Tecate and Tecate Light, cervezas con caracter, announce the digital launch of Manfidence, a witty and bold campaign that was executed in partnership with Facebook’s multicultural team and Creative Shop.

Exhibit space blew sponsorship sales out of the water when it came to revenue share, though, accounting for half of total event revenues. Meanwhile, dollars from sponsorships added up to represent 16% of total revenues, with attendee revenues landing in second.

HispanicAd.com is proud to be the leading trade journal offering daily news, research and resources to the US Hispanic advertising,marketing and media executives.

As part of our daily commitment besides our publication HispanicAd.com, we are very proud of the work we do in marketing and creating content for our readers with our partnerships with Adam Jacobson,  Advertising Age and Broadcasting & Cable . Multichannel News.

To celebrate our partnerships we are promoting our work and you can download :

The Advertising Age 2014 Hispanic Fact Pack

The 2014 Hispanic Market Overview

The B&C / 2014 Hispanic Post Upfront Guide

The 2014 Hispanic CMO

Expect more from us in 2015

This holiday season Hispanic shoppers will make the difference between a ‘Feliz’ (happy) and ‘Feria’ (fair) ‘Navidad’ for retailers, according to 2,417 Hispanic consumers who participated in the Brand Keys 20th annual Holiday Shopping Survey.

Once the last piece of pumpkin pie is eaten, Thanksgiving thoughts that used to turn to naptimes now switch to navigating mall traffic. After all, this year some retailers are planning to open so early, they’ll never really shut down on Turkey Day in the first place. And many shoppers are looking forward to two of the biggest shopping days of the year—Black Friday and Cyber Monday—eager for deals in-store and online.

Steadily improving economic fundamentals should moderately boost holiday sales in the stores and online this year, according to Deloitte’s annual holiday sales forecast.

Televisa Publishing + Digital announced  its shift in management at their Miami-based corporate office.  Sergio Carrera, General Manager of the U.S. Hispanic market, has been replaced by Televisa Publishing’s own Christian Rojas, effective immediately.

Over the last several years the Festival Iberoamericano de la Publicidad (FIAP) has encountered a shrinking fan base and competition from other more important and targeted creative awards programs in Latin America and the US Hispanic Market. 

Beverage companies spent $866 million to advertise unhealthy drinks in 2013, and children and teens remained key target audiences for that advertising, according to a new report released by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The report, Sugary Drink FACTS 2014, highlights some progress regarding beverage marketing to young people, but also shows that companies still have a long way to go to improve their marketing practices and the nutritional quality of their products to support young people’s health.