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In the latest episode of “Behind the Numbers,” eMarketer’s Karin von Abrams and GlobalWebIndex’s chief research officer, Jason Mander, highlight key data from the new Global Media Intelligence report.

When the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect earlier this year, it codified what marketers have known all along: accountability matters, and it’s the defining quality by which consumers measure their relationships with the companies that access their data. The resulting shift in the way companies collect, process, analyze, and share data is not a switch that can be easily flipped. Establishing accountability to comply with regulations like the GDPR is a complex, multistep process that involves multiple teams.

Roughly 65 million fire emojis are used every day throughout social media.  While most of the time this popular emoji is used to add spice to a light-hearted tweet, Coral Gables based Alma wanted to take that energy and use it to help those affected by the very real fires happening in California. They responded to tweets that include the fire emoji, driving Twitter users towards our donation page that is seeking $10,000 for the wildfire relief fund, California Community Foundation. Help us by spreading awareness to our #FightFireWithFire donation campaign.

Increasingly, brands are opting to buy digital media through programmatic means, and the sharp uptick in adoption of this model is causing disruption among brands and agencies alike.

LBI Media, Inc. (LBI)  announced it is pursuing a financial restructuring.  To implement the restructuring, LBI and certain of its affiliates have filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

The Immigrant Archive Project (IAP) a 501-C3 nonprofit organization, whose mission it is to record, preserve and share the stories of immigrants in America, is celebrating its 10 year anniversary with the announcement of a college scholarship fund drive.  The IAP college scholarships will be awarded to gifted immigrants and the children of immigrants who are the first in their family to attend college.

As the dust settles on the 2018 midterm elections, a few things have come into focus. One is that while this was maybe not a fully blue wave (depends on which historical perspective you use as a benchmark), the Democrats harnessed voter anger against the current administration into a solid win by capturing the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises announced a new business initiative by launching an e-commerce platform to expand and incentivize the Telemundo fandom experience, generate insights and additional revenue. The ShopTelemundo.com site includes a wealth of Telemundo and Universo branded items, and an ever expanding collection of show-specific product line

BOTTOM LINE: We are refining expectations for US advertising growth. We now call for +6.5% underlying expansion this year vs. our previously published +4.8% forecast. Our new 2019 forecast now calls for +4.0% growth, higher vs. our prior expectation.

The Culture Marketing Council: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing (CMC) announced its 2018 Hispanic Market Guide is now available to download.

HispanicAd.com in association with Adam R Jacobson are proud to announce the availability of the 2018 Hispanic Market Overview.  

To download click on image or CLICK HERE.

More than 7 in 10 (71 percent) holiday shoppers plan to head to the stores and online over the Thanksgiving weekend (Thanksgiving Thursday – Cyber Monday)

When we were kids, most of us dreamed of becoming a millionaire. Fast forward to current day and suddenly that million doesn’t seem like enough, when it comes to playing the lottery that is.

The Board of Directors of Nielsen Holdings plc announced that David Kenny will join the company as Chief Executive Officer effective December 3, 2018. David will also join Nielsen’s Board of Directors.

Uforia Music Series took over Los Angeles this weekend with an all-female concert. The “Las Que Mandan” Uforia Concert brought fans the hottest Latina legends and rising stars. The celebration took place November 17 at The Forum in Los Angeles.

I have been fortunate enough to attend a few industry conferences over the last month in short succession, so I’ve been listening to marketers, media owners, agency heads and other assorted marketing ecosystem players.  by Maarten Albarda

Two-thirds of all money spent on advertising in digital media in 2019 (65%) will be traded programmatically, according to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts. Advertisers will spend $84 billion programmatically next year — projected to reach $98 billion in 2020, when 68% of digital media expenditure will be earmarked for programmatic trading.

  By Gonzalo López Martí  – Creative director, etc    /    LMMiami.com

• Full disclosure: I worked for Senator Bill Nelson’s (D-Florida) reelection campaign.
• As you might’ve read, after a nail-biting recount, he lost for the slimmest of margins: 10,033 votes out of the 8.2 million total ballots cast in the state.
• Let me rephrase: we lost.

Univision Creator Network (UCN) announced the signing of YouTube beauty creator Kathleen Fuentes, KathleenLights.

Carrie Stimmel has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Lifestyle and Hispanic Advertising Sales, NBCUniversal.  She will lead the sales teams responsible for national advertising and marketing partnerships on Bravo, E!, Oxygen, Telemundo, Universal Kids and UNIVERSO.