Digital
Hispanic Consumers Overindex on Streaming Consumption Versus Rest of U.S. [REPORT]
Hispanic consumers are leading the way when it comes to consumption of streaming content, a new Nielsen report finds. In fact, streaming drives 55.8% of total TV time for Hispanic viewers, surpassing the 46% for the rest of the U.S. Furthermore, Hispanic audiences outpaced general U.S. viewership of streaming services YouTube, Netflix and Disney, that same report found.
2025 State of AI in Social Media Study, Unveiling 96% of Professionals Use AI Daily
Metricool, a global social media management platform, released its 2025 State of AI in Social Media Study, revealing that 96% of social media professionals now use AI tools in their social media workflows, with 72.5% relying on them daily. The findings underscore how AI has become a core tool in the day-to-day work of social media managers, marketers, creators, and agencies.
Brian Fisher Elevated to Chief Revenue Officer at MediaCo
MediaCo Holding Inc.announced the promotion of Brian Fisher to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this role, Fisher will lead revenue-generating functions across the portfolio, including national and local sales for linear, audio, events, and digital.
Canela Media’s Data Science Team Takes Home Digiday Technology Award
Canela Media, a leading technology and innovation multicultural media company, announced that its Data Science Team has been recognized in the category of Best Data Team in the 2025 Digiday Technology Awards. The Digiday Technology Awards reflect the rapid evolution of digital marketing, where AI-powered personalization, omnichannel programmatic strategies and privacy-first approaches are driving innovation.
AI Is a Growth Engine, Not a Cost Cutter
Generative AI has the potential to transform marketing—not just by making existing processes faster or cheaper, but by enabling entirely new kinds of creativity, deeper connections, and new services for consumers that were never before possible. But if AI is viewed only as a way to cut costs and reduce headcount, we will choke off the far greater opportunity: to fuel growth, creativity, and innovation that benefit both sides of the client/agency partnership.
The State of GenAI Adoption 2025
Ultimately, when it comes to AI, the tech is the easy part. Leadership and change management are the hard bits. Navigating these tidal waves of AI requires strong leadership and a focused approach to change management to foster a culture of experimentation, manage risk, and redefine the agency’s value proposition for the AI era.
AI and the future of multicultural market segmentation
Are AI tools inclusive? We're halfway through 2025 and one thing is undeniable: AI is no longer on the horizon, it is in the room. For the market research industry, this has come faster than most expected. What felt like an existential threat just a year ago is now transforming how researchers approach everything from segmentation to recruitment to data analysis. By Mario X. Carrasco
AI vs. mani-pedis
By Gonzalo López Martí - Creative Director I was hanging out with a group of colleagues. Naturally, we ended up playing the #1 parlor game of 2025: what jobs will survive the march of AI? “Manicurist”, pondered half-jokingly a friend with a decade-long career in the market research realm. She’s onto something.
Content Creators vs Influencers – Similarities and Differences
Although it seems like anybody with a smartphone can be an influencer or a content creator, it takes a lot of time and talent to promote brands online. And, by the way, content creators and influencers are actually two different things.
AI Is Giving Spanish a New Voice — A Creative Experiment by Four Cats.
Creative team Four Cats, founded by Alena and Vicent Llopis, introduces “The Sound of Spanish Through AI”, an AI-generated video that captures the emotional richness of Spanish as spoken across different countries, cultures, and accents.
Search advertising claims nearly a quarter (22%) of media budgets and expands reach to social and video platforms
The search landscape is evolving beyond traditional search engines to social and video platforms, and is outpacing AI search. According to WARC Media, search advertising now accounts for nearly a quarter (22%) of all media budgets, and forecasts global search advertising spend to reach $248.6bn this year, rising to $265.5bn in 2026.
In the Age of AI, Ethical Data Is a Brand’s Most Valuable Currency
As technology evolves and AI continues to move at the speed of light, major advertising holding companies are acquiring AI firms and developing proprietary platforms at a rapid pace. Data-driven insights, campaign automation, and predictive targeting are being turbocharged by these acquisitions. In this way, holding companies are beginning to look and act more like platforms and are reshaping the infrastructure of modern marketing.
Streaming Surpasses Linear – But TV Is Not Dead Yet
For the first time in the four-year history of Nielsen’s monthly TV consumption report, The Gauge, streaming has officially overtaken cable and broadcast combined. In May’s dataset, streaming captured 44.8% of total U.S. TV usage, while cable and broadcast together accounted for 44.2%, down significantly from their positions at the report’s launch in May 2021. That shift is the headline, and it’s deserved. Streaming is now the single largest format in American television consumption.
83% of U.S. adults use streaming services, far fewer subscribe to cable or satellite TV
Is streaming king? Most Americans (83%) say they watch streaming services, with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video being especially common. Far fewer – 36% – say they currently subscribe to cable or satellite TV at home, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
How Brands Should Navigate Recession Anxiety on Social Media
For brands, 2025 has posed a critical moment. Economic uncertainty has become a constant backdrop to consumer life, and it's showing up online as recession anxiety, shaping what people post, how they shop, and whom they trust. From the return of "victory gardens" as emblems of resilience to the continuing spread of #recessioncore memes on TikTok, social media is where collective anxiety is meeting cultural expression.
Grupo Garnier Expands Operations to Miami with the Launch of SHIFT U.S. by Grupo Garnier
Grupo Garnier, a holding company with a diverse portfolio of leading agency brands across a wide range of marketing disciplines and a presence in the Caribbean, as well as North, Central, and South America, announces the opening of its new office in Miami, Florida: SHIFT U.S. by Grupo Garnier, as part of its international expansion strategy.
Fixing the System We Built: Driving Toward Transparency
Albert Einstein is famously alleged to have said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." For decades, the digital advertising industry has thrived on a promise: precision targeting through advanced analytics. The right person, at the right time, with the right message. That vision helped fuel an ecosystem in which digital media spending in the U.S. reached $259 billion in 2024.
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.
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.
What Web Browsing Data Tells Us About How AI Appears Online [REPORT]
An analysis of one month of browsing data finds that around six-in-ten respondents visited a search page with an AI-generated summary. But visits to more in-depth content about AI were relatively rare.
