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Alfredo De Villa And Robert Teitel Launch Luchadores Productions
Luchadores Productions, a certified 100% diversity-led and owned full-service creative production studio, co-founded by veteran Director/Executive Producer Alfredo De Villa and Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer Robert Teitel, announces its official launch. With a mission to craft premium, human-centric content, Luchadores Productions partners with brands and agencies to deliver compelling narratives.
TelevisaUnivision Announces Leadership Transition in U.S. Advertising Sales
TelevisaUnivision announced that Donna Speciale will step down from her role as President of U.S. Advertising Sales and Marketing. Tim Natividad has been appointed as her successor and will assume the role effective June 9. Speciale will remain with the company during a transition period to ensure continuity.
The $2 trillion global wellness market gets a millennial and Gen Z glow-up
To millennials and Gen Zers, wellness has become a daily, personalized practice rather than a set of occasional activities or purchases.
Where is your agency in the agency supermarket?
Many agencies forget about a critical element of brand positioning when it comes to their own brand.
Ágora Ñ Launches as the First Spanish-Language Artificial Intelligence Community in Miami
The official launch of Ágora Ñ, the first Spanish-language artificial intelligence (AI) community in Miami, took place at the AI Center of Miami Dade College. The event received a warm reception from professionals, entrepreneurs, and curious minds seeking to understand and leverage the potential of AI in their lives and careers.
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.
From “subscription fatigue” to dynamic pricing.
By Gonzalo López Martí - Creative Director The “subscription economy” grew by nearly 600% in the past decade*. Understandably, consumers are reaching the boiling point. The pervasive, omnipresent subscription model is increasingly regarded as a predatory practice.
2025 CMO Spend Survey Reveals Marketing Budgets Have Flatlined at 7.7% of Overall Company Revenue
CMOs report that their marketing budgets for 2025 remain flat at 7.7% of overall company revenue, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. This is consistent with last year when marketing budgets represented 7.7% of overall company revenue
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”
Six ways to lead in an age of debossification
Companies, brands, and individuals which succeed are ones that differentiate themselves. By Rishad Tobaccowala
Celebrating agency leaders: When Advertising and Theater connect for the Culture.
We all agree we are in the business of storytelling. Well, here’s a story that has a lot to do with our culture and that rich language many of our consumers speak —Spanish, the language of Cervantes, with all its many different accents. “Repertorio Español,” a cradle of great storytelling in Spanish, is celebrating two movers and shakers from our industry: Daisy Expósito-Ulla and Jorge Ulla, the founders of d expósito & Partners (dex). Considered the premier institution historically emblematic of great theater from Spain, Latin America as well as emerging Latinx playwrights, “Repertorio” has made a good choice of honorees on their 57th Anniversary. Yet the two honorees don’t want the celebration to be about them but rather about 20,000 young Latin students that each of us can help access “teatro en español” by helping with a donation to NYC’s “Repertorio Español”
Is Branding the Missing Link for SMB Marketers?
Marcelo Kertész, CMO at MANSCAPED, says SMB marketers need to create content for venues in which their customers want to engage, not just convert. "Diversify your acquisition mix [and] don't rely solely on Meta and Google," he says. "Test into partnerships, affiliates, influencers, and even retail or experiential pop-ups if it makes sense for your brand."
RACE AND ETHNICITY IN COMMUNICATION [REPORT]
The DAA report shows a six-point increase in overall racial diversity among participants, rising to 28% in 2023 from 22% in 2019—driven largely by a three-point gain in Latino representation. With nearly 20% of the U.S. population identifying as Hispanic or Latino, improved representation supports deeper market reach, especially considering that Spanish is the nation's most common non-English language. Still, the modest gains highlight persistent disparities, particularly in leadership, and reinforce the urgent need for structural change to address the all-too-common experience of people of color being 'the only' or 'few' among colleagues. By 2045, more than 50% of the U.S. population will be people of color, a demographic that has driven 100% of the U.S. population growth.
Strategy and the Perils of Implementation.
What is strategy? Strategy is Future Competitive Advantage. By Rishad Tobaccowala
DEI and Multicultural Marketing: Where Do We Go From Here?
We live in serious times. DEI programs are being gutted. At Harvard, DEI offices have been renamed, affinity celebrations canceled, and visible signs of inclusion quietly removed. In Florida and Texas, public universities have been ordered to dismantle equity programs. Teachers are being monitored for uttering words like identity. Libraries are pulling books. And in state after state, lawmakers aren’t just targeting trans rights—they’re erasing the existence of LGBTQ+ families like mine. By David Morse - Chief Insights Officer, New American Dimensions
Financial Structure and Metrics for Agencies: Evolving with Size
I’ve been working with creative agencies for over a decade, and it’s pretty cool to see the patterns of how these creative businesses evolve as they get larger. In fact, the financial structure of an agency has to evolve as you grow, or you’ll hit a wall. Call it a growth ceiling or a scaling plateau, but if you don’t plan for it the org will bog down and stop working. In this article, we’ll go over the outworking of what the financial metrics look like for agencies at different sizes, and how to work around these various sizes so you don’t slow down your growth. By Jason M Blumer - CPA, CEO of Blumer & Associates, CPAs
The Story of Lapiz, the Little ad Agency that Became a Worldwide Sensation – A Pencil and a Deam [DOWNLOAD]
Lápiz, a Leo Burnett Co. multicultural subsidiary, started as a division, and later earned its own identity and independence. With very limited resources and a small group of talent from Latin America, Europe, and the U.S., the agency grew fast and turned into a creative powerhouse, earning awards and recognition all over the world. This book is fully illustrated with Lápiz's best work, and case studies. It's highly motivating for anyone working in advertising, from students to entrepreneurs struggling to win through creativity. By Laurence Klinger
A Love Letter to Our Roots: Buena Vista Social Club on Broadway
There are rare, sacred moments in life when art leaps beyond the stage and cradles your soul. Last night, Buena Vista Social Club on Broadway gifted me one of those moments—a celebration of Cuban culture so tender, so profound, that it moved me to tears and filled my heart with an indescribable pride. By Luis Miguel Messianu
Lopez-Negrete joins AAF’s Hall of Fame.
On Thursday, April 24, 2025, The American Advertising Federation inducted its yearly class and among them was a Hispanic Advertising leader, Alex Lopez Negrete, of Houston's Lopez Negrete Communications. A company he co-founded with his wife and partner Cathy.
