Marketing

More and more US Hispanics are describing themselves as Bilingual, and they are adopting some US behaviors and attitudes – even while still holding on to key Hispanic values.

There’s no doubt Baby Boomers have changed how endemic categories (e.g., health and finance) view and speak to older consumers, which has resulted in more authentic and youthful ad campaigns that resonate on a deeper level. And, it’s also true that Boomers’ unrivaled spending power has caused mainstream brands to at least question the wisdom of ignoring consumers once they turn 50. Despite this progress, however, the question of how to convince more mainstream brands to target consumers 50+ with any regularity persists.

Prosumer, city-sumer, sellsumers, JOMO and FOMO. Marketers and brand managers are constantly bombarded with fancy terms and buzzwords hailing the next big consumer trend. This can be overwhelming and brands often find it challenging to tap into every trend out there. The trick lies in knowing which ones are most relevant to their business.

Millennial males are, in theory, elusive creatures. They’re commonly thought of as cord cutters who can’t be—and don’t want to be—reached. But many marketers remain eager to connect with this young, digitally-savvy group.

Consumers are voting at an accelerated rate for brands that enable customization.

Marketing today is radically different from the way it was just 10 years ago, because marketers today depend on two things that were never so important before: data and content.

Once the most straightforward of markets, the United States has become a frustrating puzzle for executives of consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Changes in consumer behavior, the emergence of smaller competitors, and the proliferation of retail formats — the grocery channel has lost share to club, dollar, and convenience stores — have created a much more complex environment. Adding to the challenge is the fact that U.S. population growth — a core element of CPG companies’ past success in the country — is expected to remain low for at least the next decade.

Taking advantage of digital trends can give consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies the edge they need to appeal to consumers’ desires to have relevant, real-time and one-on-one interactions with your brands.

Advertising budgets are shifting to a multi-screen campaign approach as consumers move across more screens. As a result digital brand advertising growth is accelerating. However, the lack of relevant digital metrics threatens to halt its continued growth. Screen-agnostic metrics are critical for marketers to evaluate and optimize their campaigns for success.

Coca-Cola’s Hispanic holiday campaign “Haz a Alguien Feliz” aims to tug at heartstrings and create a chain of acts of kindness. The nationwide campaign, launched on Dec. 4, encourages the Hispanic community to do a small act of kindness for someone in their life.  The acts are meant to be small, yet meaningful: helping a neighbor carry their groceries, bringing galleticas to the office, or watching mom’s favorite novela with her. The campaign encourages participants to post pictures of their small acts of kindness to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook using the hashtag #HazAlguienFeliz to create awareness and motivate others to participate.  By Alba Adamo, Group Director of Hispanic Marketing Coca-Cola

More than 60% of nonprofit professionals in North America polled in August 2014 by Content Marketing Institute (CMI) and Blackbaud said their organizations used content marketing. And they’re not doing it to raise money.

The Story

Recently, a 30-second AT&T television ad, “Vivir Sin Compromisos,” caught my attention. It shows young, appealing, Latinos talking about themselves and reacting to the company’s cellular service.

What makes this ad stand out is that the actors speak in English, Spanish and mix of the two — Spanglish.

Because of that, we wanted to understand how the ad resonated with Spanish-Preferred Hispanics, English-Preferred Hispanics and Bicultural Hispanics, so we tested it.  By Mario Carrasco / partner, ThinkNow Research

For a very long time, marketers developed strategies to achieve marketing objectives like awareness, perception and efficiency.  The pendulum shifted recently, with marketers now starting to take a more significant seat at the C-level table, realizing that marketing metrics are not necessarily as important as standard business metrics — though marketing measures do provide a bridge to meet standard ones. And now the ultimate accountability for marketing is revenue and sales. Today’s marketers understand addressability and accountability, and if they don’t then they’re destined to be replaced.

As with many seemingly overnight sensations, the Internet of Things (IoT) —  the digitization of everyday objects —  has been a long time coming. More than three decades ago, thirsty students at Carnegie Mellon University famously connected a Coke machine to the Internet, in order to see whether it had drinks in stock, making it one of the first popular examples of the IoT in action.

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

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As the holiday shopping season shifts into high gear, your customers are going to be sending you a veritable blizzard of signals as they interact with you via email, websites, social networks, mobile apps and customer support.

Claure, the first foreign-born Latino CEO in the history of the U.S. to lead a telecommunications company, is very committed to engaging and connecting with the Hispanic consumer, and this is the focus of the brand’s next advertising campaign set to hit the air during the Latrin Grammys.

An industry-wide initiative, led by the trade group AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing, seeks to get more granular into advertisers ROI measures of the Hispanic market.  A new study, Refining Hispanic ROI, released today by AHAA finds that the rapid shifts in the Hispanic market coupled with the emergence of the Total Market Approach, demand that sales data and television measurement methods evolve or new models emerge to give marketers an accurate read on their Hispanic ROI.

Mothers are a highly digital cohort by multiple measures—internet penetration, smartphone ownership, social network usage, etc. It helps them accomplish the multitudinous tasks of motherhood while also giving them some escape from those demands. But all this digital usage (and the multitasking it often entails) can sometimes aggravate as well as reduce the pressures of their day, according to a new eMarketer report, “Mothers and Digital Media: Useful, Yes; a Panacea, No.”

Through Custom 360 Integrations, MetroPCS is a Brand Partner in Estrella TV’s Tengo Talento.   This season long partnership with Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento will be highlighted through three primary elements:  The MetroPCS Call Home Segment, MetroPCS Lounge and MetroPCS as Voting Partner.