On Tuesday Oct. 17, the US reached a milestone: Its population grew to 300 million.
Today, the US population has a median age of 36.2 and a life expectancy of 77.8, according to the US Census Bureau. Well over half (59%) of women are in the workforce and 85.2% of people ages 25 and older have at least a high school diploma.
To commemorate this milestone, eMarketer reviews its estimates of the current demographic makeup of the US Internet population.
New study estimates 12.6 million immigrants are sending home more money more frequently
Latin American migrants working in the United States will send around $45 billion to their homelands this year, up from some $30 billion in 2004, according to a report released today by the Inter-American Development Bank.
Ronald J. Gordon was elected as the new President of the Independent Spanish Broadcasters Association (ISBA). Mr. Gordon is the founder and majority shareholder of ZGS Communications, Inc., a Hispanic-owned Spanish-language communications company with interest in television and radio stations, including the largest independent group of television stations affiliated with the Telemundo network.
Christopher Campos, General Manager and Executive Vice President of GlobalHue New York announced the recent addition of senior account management and creative staff to the growing New York staff.
A new white paper by the National Council of La Raza-California State University Long Beach Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation, and Leadership Training (NCLR-CSULB Center for Latino Health), Redefining HIV/AIDS for Latinos: A Promising New Paradigm for Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Hispanic Community, notes that HIV/AIDS is a health issue affecting virtually every segment of the Latino population and calls for a “new paradigm” to address the issue.
The San Jose Network (SJN) adds Atlanta’s only full-service Hispanic agency, PM Publicidad, as a new affiliate. This marks the latest addition to the network, which already consists of 24 agencies in 25 countries.
PMG, Inc. announced the launch of two new divisions — dinámica Hispanic Market Consultants and PMG Retail & Entertainment.
English, Spanish, or both? It depends. Hispanic consumers come in different colors, shapes, and sizes. They also come with varying levels of language. Some speak only Spanish, some speak only English, and yet some eat and breathe ‘Spanglish.’ When marketing to Hispanic consumers, it is extremely important for marketers to understand where they stand on the language spectrum, as well as how they would like to be marketed to.
Scarborough Research and Arbitron have announced a new audience metric that provides more precise measurements of the American mall shopper.
del Rivero Messianu DDB, was chosen to build the brand image for Movietraxx, a new Latin American cable channel, that focuses on what is behind movie making through behind the scenes interviews and making of’s.
In almost any division, department, or office, there’s a weak link — someone whom everyone has to work around, someone who makes everyone’s life a little more difficult, someone who holds back the rest of the group. It’s a simple fact: Not everyone can do the job. It’s been thirty-six years since Laurence J. Peter introduced the Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” That is, workers keep getting promoted until their new job demands more than they can give, and then they stay in that job pretty much forever.
