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Debates over who is Hispanic and who is not have fueled conversations about identity among Americans who trace their heritage to Latin America or Spain. The question surfaced during U.S. presidential debates and the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. More recently, it bubbled up after a singer from Spain won the “Best Latin” award at the 2019 Video Music Awards.

In 2019, the poverty rate for the United States was 10.5%, the lowest since estimates were first released for 1959.

No more than half of U.S. adults feel confident in the news media or think other Americans feel this wayIn a year filled with major news stories – from impeachment to a contentious election, from a global pandemic to nationwide protests over racial injustice – Americans continue to have a complicated relationship with the news media.

With Latinos poised to become the largest ethnic minority group in the electorate this November, Telemundo released an in-depth study examining a wide range of political and social views of young Latinos, the driving force behind Hispanic voter growth. In partnership with BuzzFeed News, the report titled “Young Latinos: A Generation of Change” includes a national online survey of registered Latino voters aged 18 to 34 and provides a detailed look at one of the country’s fastest-growing and most dynamic voting groups in this year’s historic election.

Allow me to state the obvious: 2020 has been – and continues to be – messy for many retailers and those who support them. In addition to worrying about the fundamental health and safety of our employees, families and loved ones, the pandemic has tested our abilities to adjust, adapt, reimagine… and survive in real time. On-premise businesses have become highly creative in how they sell, what they sell and to whom they sell.

Recreational fishing has reached new diversity milestones, according to a new industry study from the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF).

Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) has been conducting LGBTQ consumer research for over 25 years.

The number of persons age 2 and older in U.S. TV Households is estimated to be 307.9 million, which represents a 0.2% increase from last year. Increases in U.S. Hispanic (+1.9%), Black (+0.9%) and Asian (+2.7%) TV households were also seen, due to estimated increases in population growth.

Latinos wield formidable economic clout.

“The Anatomy of a Video Experience: A Multicultural Study” explores how audiences consume content across multiple devices and their motivations around viewing habits. Understanding these subtleties is key for advertisers and brands looking to reach receptive audiences and better inform their planning efforts

The past several weeks have been some of the most difficult in American history.  By Mario Xavier Carrasco – Co-Founder & Principal / ThinkNow

On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico, causing widespread devastation.  This disaster not only impacted residents of the island, resulting in increased net out-migration from Puerto Rico to other parts of the United States, but also the quality of data typically used to measure migration patterns.

Recently while reviewing an audio media plan with a major client we noted that while they were using a vast array of AM/FM radio programming content, they were not buying Spanish radio. The response was, “We get the audience with a general market buy.”  Was that really true? Can a general market buy with only English language stations do an effective job of reaching Hispanics and Spanish speakers? We turned to Oliver Marquis, VP Media Analytics at Nielsen, for assistance.  By Pierre Bouvard / Westwood One

In recent years, television measurement has been done through two distinct approaches. The first, adopted by more traditional television marketers, relies on gross rating points (GRPs) to evaluate and buy inventory to meet marketing goals. The second, brought on by the evolution of streaming behavior, evaluates based on the standard for digital audience measurement: impressions.

Brand growth is the mantra of marketers. Today the number of new tools available to help marketers achieve brand growth is multiplying annually. The new focus is on large scale databases, data science, artificial intelligence, biometrics, and the beginnings of a true marketing science. However, all of this is competing for attention within the context of established marketing processes, advertiser-agency relationship structures, and higher order degrees of complexity of communication. The result is that  “good enough” often substitutes for adoption of proven innovations.

Earlier this year, the pandemic thrust many Americans into a new lifestyle. We worked, learned, parented and cooked at home, shifting how and where we ate, watched TV and listened to music. It even altered our sleeping habits. But a funny thing happened on the road to re-emergence: Consumers, used to choosing when, where and how much content they connect with, found that by working from home they actually had a newfound choice when it came to their jobs, thereby giving employees a chance to achieve a better work/life balance.

The good thing about change is that it opens a dialogue about what needs to happen next. So I wonder, as data gets bigger, will it become more inclusive or has Hispanics and other minority populations, yet again, been left out of the conversation?  by Mario Carrasco

While the market research industry has mostly embraced the Black Lives Matter Movement, I urge fellow researchers to go beyond issuing a powerful statement.

Today’s charged sociopolitical climate has underscored the importance of multicultural media for Black and Hispanic audiences, a new study from Horowitz Research finds. Three-quarters of Black (74%) and Hispanic (73%) consumers are at least occasional consumers of Black or Hispanic targeted media and 44% and 42% are frequent consumers, according to Horowitz’s State of Consumer Engagement 2020 study. The study, which was fielded in May 2020, also found that six in 10 Asians are at least occasional consumers of media targeted to them.

Pan-ethnic labels describing the U.S. population of people tracing their roots to Latin America and Spain have been introduced over the decades, rising and falling in popularity. Today, the two dominant labels in use are Hispanic and Latino, with origins in the 1970s and 1990s respectively.  More recently, a new, gender-neutral, pan-ethnic label, Latinx, has emerged as an alternative that is used by some news and entertainment outlets, corporations, local governments and universities to describe the nation’s Hispanic population.