Marketing
The HMC 2025 Hispanic Market Guide challenges marketers to follow the growth and prioritize cultural COMPETENCY for brand success [DOWNLOAD for FREE]
The Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) has released its highly anticipated 2025 Hispanic Market Guide as a roadmap to help marketers effectively and authentically connect with the top U.S. growth market: Latinos. The guide features business-building cultural insights, economic and sector data plus reports on media consumption, purchase behavior and Hispanic creativity.
2025 Hispanic Market Overview Report – DOWNLOAD for FREE
HispanicAd in association with Adam R Jacobson are proud to announce the availability of the 2025 Hispanic Market Overview – titled “VOZ of The American Influencer”
Speaking Their Language: The ROI of Inclusive Marketing [PODCAST]
Inclusive marketing isn't just about doing the right thing—it’s about doing what works. When companies fail to speak the cultural language of their audiences, they risk more than lost market share. Brands lose trust, relevance, and relationships. But when inclusion is rooted in strategy rather than performative gestures, it becomes a powerful business driver for long-term growth.
It Happened in Mobile First: How Mobile Advertising Anticipated the Industry’s Biggest Challenges
The challenges facing today's digital advertising ecosystem — signal loss, privacy constraints, platform consolidation — first emerged in mobile.
Reconnecting with LGBTQ+ audiences
Joining in Pride celebrations each June is one opportunity for marketers to build their connections with LGBTQ+ communities. But building brand trust and loyalty with LGBTQ+ consumers requires support beyond Pride Month.
ADVERTISING PROVES RESILIENT AMIDST ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY
MAGNA was always anticipating a deceleration in the global advertising market’s growth for 2025, following the exceptional performance of 2024. Analysis of first-quarter financial reports confirmed weaker ad sales among traditional media owners (TMOs) amidst growing economic uncertainty. TMO ad revenues (radio and television broadcasters, newspaper and magazine publishers, out-of-home, and cinema) decreased by -1% year-over-year globally, with key markets experiencing declines of -2% to -4% (Germany, UK, France, Canada). In contrast, digital pure players (DPPs) demonstrated remarkable resilience, with first-quarter ad sales increasing by +12% globally and +13% in the US.
NEW STUDY SHOWS US LATINOS ARE RISING IN SELF-AWARENESS, BUT FEEL INCREASINGLY IGNORED BY BRANDS AND MEDIA
A new study launched today at Cannes Lions reveals U.S. Latinos, one of the largest and fastest-growing consumer groups, are more empowered and brand-aware than ever, but feel increasingly underrecognized by brands and media.
For Alex López Negrete, It All Started With Radio
For more than four decades, Alex López Negrete, Co-Founder and CEO of López Negrete Communications, has been a driving force in multicultural marketing. He is also a passionate advocate for the power of radio.
Radio Fills the Engagement Gap Across Demos
Current advertisers not using radio are willingly leaving consumers on the table - but they don't have to. Radio offers brands new opportunities for connecting with under-engaged media consumers, those that have little to no meaningful interaction with internet and TV and are therefore likely missed by ad campaigns. Katz's new analysis of national Nielsen Scarborough data explores radio engagement among these overlooked consumers in the bottom two usage quintiles for internet and TV.
Why market research needs government-funded university research to thrive
The market research industry is built on innovation. Whether it’s new ways of collecting data, developing predictive models or finding more accurate ways to understand human behavior, much of what we use daily as market researchers can be traced back to one powerful engine of innovation: government-funded university research.
Genuine effort trumps artificial intelligence? Ozempic & costly signaling.
By Gonzalo López Martí - Creative Director Let’s say you received an invitation to a wedding by email or by text message three days before the event. What would your reaction be?
SBS annouces groundbreaking partnership with Roku Channel for livestreaming of La Musica TV
Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (SBS), the largest Hispanic-controlled media and entertainment company in the United States, today announced that LaMusica, its top-ranked audiovisual entertainment app, will begin livestreaming as LaMusica TV on The Roku Channel.
The Customer Journey Is Cross-Brand, but Our Infrastructure Isn’t
Marketers have spent years chasing the consumer across devices, platforms, and channels. Omnichannel strategies, identity graphs, and measurement frameworks all aim to capture what we call "the journey" — a sequence of media-consumption experiences that signals interest or intent and, ideally, ends in a transaction.
Hispanic Influence and Representation in American Entertainment and Consumer Culture
The United States population is made up of individuals from a variety of cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. With this, Hispanics are a growing part of this diverse population and make up "over 622 million people" in the United States (Korzenny et al., 2024, p.1). They are not only a major part of what makes up our country, but are also key consumers in America. Being such a large part of the population, they hold significant buying power and have an influence over style, trends, and media. However, Hispanic consumers not only influence these elements of our society, but also the American entertainment industry as a whole. Through music, television, and fashion, Hispanics are helping to reshape mainstream culture with their values, ideas, and creative contributions. Yet despite this growing cultural and economic influence, Hispanic consumers and their values have been overlooked, particularly in media and marketing. This essay will explore the growing influence Hispanic consumers have on American entertainment and culture, and why it is essential for media and marketers to recognize and reflect the cultural values they have previously neglected. By Meghan Bannister Florida State University
Inside the Science of Building Brand Trust Through Storytelling
In this episode of The New Mainstream podcast, Kate Smiley, Head of Global Employer Brand at GE Healthcare, emphasizes that in an era of skepticism, trust is essential. By combining storytelling, research, inclusivity, and emerging technologies like AI, brands can build authentic relationships and achieve real business results.
What Happens When Brands Stop Advertising?
It's no secret: marketers are under intense pressure to justify their investments and to prove the incremental effect those investments have on business performance. To be fair, finance teams likely feel they are doing their job in this regard, but when the marketing team can't properly measure results, they run the risk of having budgets cut significantly.
Neurodiversity Is DEI: Why We Must Speak Up Now
The national conversation around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has become increasingly polarized, and dangerously so. What began as a long-overdue effort to recognize and protect marginalized identities—based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, and more—has turned into a political battleground. Conservative lawmakers in multiple states have pushed to defund DEI initiatives in public education, corporate training programs, and even health systems, arguing that they are divisive or ideological. But make no mistake: the people hurt most by these rollbacks are not ideologies. They are people. And among the most vulnerable are neurodivergent individuals.
Generational Marketing: Why marketers should not discount age in today’s media landscape
Marketers today have access to various sophisticated tools to segment audiences based on intricate behaviors and interests, aiming for sharper focus on audiences. Yet, even with this drive for granular segmentation, age remains a fundamental and powerful lens for understanding media consumption. The rarity of a video, meme, or trend that genuinely captivates everyone from teenagers to older generations speaks volumes about the enduring power of age in shaping our shared experiences and platform preferences—a reality that makes generational marketing an indispensable strategy.
Programmatic Transparency Benchmark: Q1 2025 Benchmark Findings [REPORT]
Launched in 2024, the ANA Programmatic Transparency Benchmark is a joint initiative by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), TAG TrustNet, and Fiducia. It was created in response to the ANA's 2023 Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study, which revealed that 25 percent of open web ad spending could be better allocated. Q1 2025 Findings: Progress and Opportunity
ANA/4As Client-Agency AOR Relationship Tenure [REPORT]
In a rapidly evolving advertising landscape, the dynamics of client-agency relationships are more critical than ever. What defines a "long-term" partnership in today's industry? How has the average client-agency relationship tenure changed?
