Digital

The report provides a year in review of the major shifts in digital consumer behavior that occurred in various online sectors, including mobile, social media, video, advertising, search and e-commerce. Furthermore, it examines what insights can be gathered from these trends and what that means looking forward to the year ahead.

America’s seniors have historically been late adopters to the world of technology compared to their younger compatriots, but their movement into digital life continues to deepen, according to newly released data from the Pew Research Center. In this report, we take advantage of a particularly large survey to conduct a unique exploration not only of technology use between Americans ages 65 or older and the rest of the population, but within the senior population as well.

Spending on ads served to internet-connected devices including desktop and laptop computers, mobile phones and tablets will reach $137.53 billion this year, according to eMarketer’s latest estimates of worldwide paid media spending.

Entravision Communications Corporation announced the launch of Todobebé across an integrated media platform, including digital and mobile media, television, radio and point-of-sale marketing services.  

Pulpo Media announced that Rosy Marin has joined their rapidly growing organization as its new Head of Sales.

The paper illustrates in-image advertising’s effectiveness through five case studies with major brand advertisers including Activision, Cat’s Pride, Garnier, Mazda and the Northwest Dealer Group (NDG), each showing increases in key areas, such as brand lift, click-through rates, engagement, time spent, and more.

Video is undoubtedly the new king of brand awareness online.

According to 2013 data from Visible Measures, branded video ad views worldwide totaled 19.04 billion between 2009 and the end of 2013. At 8.3 billion, views last year accounted for a huge chunk of this total—nearly 44%.

Lopez Negrete Communications, Inc. unveiled a new Social Media Intelligence Center at its Houston headquarters. The new state of the art command center will be utilized by the agency’s digital and social media teams to monitor, analyze and engage real-time social conversations for its premier list of clients.

Consumers have come to expect brands to interact with them—not simply talk at them. However, November 2013 polling by Google Think Insights and Advertising Age found that marketers were struggling to actually manage online engagement.

Telemundo Media and Chevrolet announced that they have teamed up to create a unique new digital sports reality series, “La Cueva de la Fiera,” available on www.Telemundo.com/lacuevadelafiera.   Supported by a 360° degree promotional campaign and produced in partnership with Chevrolet, the weekly webisodes, which launched in February, offer fans an exclusive look inside Mexican professional soccer’s Club Leon.

TV is dead. Or is it?   That’s what some people might expect to hear from the tech glitterati that has been descending on Austin, TX for South by Southwest (SXSW) these past few days.  by Kevin Conroy / Univision Insights

Imagine being able to receive real-time data about the type of content an online ad is being displayed next to. Or learning within seconds key demographic information on who is viewing and engaging with it. Then having the ability to use those metrics to make immediate adjustments in order to optimize a campaign.  by Captura Group

Sherwin-Williams announced the launch of its online Spanish platform www.SWLatino.com focusing on Hispanic homeowners, contractors and designers.

This report is the latest research report in a sustained effort throughout 2014 by the Pew Research Center to mark the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He wrote a paper on March 12, 1989 proposing an “information management” system that became the conceptual and architectural structure for the Web.  He eventually released the code for his system  — for free — to the world on Christmas Day in 1990. It became a milestone in easing the way for ordinary people to access documents and interact over the Internet — a system that linked computers and that had been around for years.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today released an updated version, the first since 2009, of its “Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metric Definitions” for public comment. Developed by the IAB Digital Video Committee, these definitions of commonly used analytic terms provide uniform language for the serving of in-stream digital video ads. This update incorporates terminology from the IAB Digital Video Suite (VSuite), which simplifies the technical execution of video advertising and enhances digital video advertising experiences.

Hoy announced the hiring of Andres Lombana as Executive Producer of Video Content, effective immediately. Lombana’s appointment showcases Hoy’s commitment to growing its video presence, in an effort to go beyond traditional reporting and analysis by using multiple platforms to tell stories that matter most to a diverse Hispanic audience.

In today’s digital and social media-driven world, consumers have the world at their fingertips, but are men and women’s fingers doing the same thing? A closer look into today’s rapidly evolving digital behaviors highlights the differences between what engages men and women—as well as how they react (or don’t) along the way.

Hispanic consumers are not only the fastest-growing demographic in the U.S., they’re also trendsetters in digital, leading the growth in device ownership and online usage.

If you’re headed to South by Southwest Interactive this weekend, as I am, there’s a very good chance that you’re complaining about it. It’s too big and corporate. It’s full of — shocker! — marketers instead of geeks now. It’s been impossible to get housing downtown unless you’re willing to sell a kidney on Craigslist. The Driskill Hotel won’t be fun for late-night drinks anymore because some sports marketers have taken over the whole place. You know the drill.  I’ve been going to SXSWi for years, and I agree that some of those complaints are legit. I don’t like waiting in line for breakfast tacos, and I don’t like booking insanely overpriced hotel rooms that are a 10-minute drive from the Convention Center, either. Still, I’ll confess: I like the fact that the chaos makes us think about attention. There are some lessons for us all to learn about confronting the inconveniences of representing a brand in a chaotic space. (And why not learn these things when there are open bars everywhere?)