These days, it’s the rare CEO who doesn’t know that businesses must become analytics-driven. Many business leaders have, to their credit, been charging ahead with bold investments in analytics resources and artificial intelligence (AI). Many CEOs have dedicated a lot of their own time to implementing analytics programs, appointed chief analytics officers (CAOs) or chief data officers (CDOs), and hired all sorts of data specialists.
With the prominence of social media in this day in age, it’s easy to keep up with celebrities in real time. In addition to following celebrities and brands on social media, people are also following their favorite influencers. Whether you’re interested in fashion, makeup, fitness, or gaming, there is a community of influencers out there that may interest you. Influencers often post about their favorite products, trends and brands that they can’t live without. The influencer market is booming, so what does that mean for brands? By: CMC Research Chair Nancy Tellet
The promise of digital marketing is very exciting: delivering the right message to the right person in the right place and at the right time. In marketers’ quest for this holy grail, much attention and budget has been focused on the media side of the equation (i.e., the person, time, and place).
Audience attention is precious and elusive. What role does video play in the overall entertainment experience? What are the emerging forms of revenue for content providers? How do viewers discover, purchase, download and stream videos and movies? Which devices are used to access content?
The scenario: two agencies in the same niche; both equally capable of producing quality creative. One of them has a great new business close rate and the other has a mediocre close rate. The one with a better close rate is able to be more selective about which clients they choose, is steadily growing their bottom line, and has a less stressful working environment. What’s the difference? Very likely they are much better at qualifying prospects. by Mark Duval – Duval Partnership
When most people think of radio formats of appeal to Hispanic consumers, their minds may drift to regional Mexican, or perhaps the ever-popular “trap” music and Latin Urban reggaetón-infused sounds making waves from L.A. to Miami. There may be another big opportunity to drive growth with Latino radio listeners you’ve not yet considered. And, it may not even involve a format change.
The year 2030 marks an important demographic turning point in U.S. history according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017 National Population Projections. By 2030, all baby boomers will be older than age 65. This will expand the size of the older population so that 1 in every 5 residents will be retirement age.
Set under the stars on a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles, the Hispanic Public Relations Association, Los Angeles Chapter (HPRA-LA) will be awarding next week scholarships and recognizing a national organization, an actress from Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, and a Pulitzer prize-winning Hispanic journalist, all who are using their platforms to educate and uplift the Latino community.
The first rule of “Culture Club” is that we always talk about “Culture Club!” No, we’re not talking about rock bands, music videos or cult movies. “Culture Club” refers to any platform, digital or traditional with in-culture specific content for a multicultural segment. Whether it’s a specific site, app or even in-culture content in “mainstream” places, it’s this in-culture digital content that is hitting homeruns out of the park among multicultural consumers! Digital Lives 2018, a study by the Culture Marketing Council: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing (CMC) found that culture drives digital behavior across all multicultural segments, but even authentically diverse ads done correctly in the mainstream can increase engagement with multicultural and some millennial non-Hispanic whites (NHW)! By Nancy Tellet – CMC Research Chair
Marketer optimism in the overall economy dipped slightly. The same holds true when comparing to the previous quarter. Superior product quality and customer service remain the top two overall customer priorities. In general, product company customers prioritize quality and innovation while service company customers prioritize trusting relationships.
The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) announced the appointment of Ramiro Cavazos as its next President and Chief Executive Officer.
Lilly Rocha, founder of the Sabor Latino Food Industry Trade show, will now lead the nation’s first national association representing Latinos involved in every aspect of the food industry.
Attorneys do it. So do accountants, consultants, architects and engineers. By AARM | Advertising Audit & Risk Management, Marketing Math Blog
Miami Ad School continues to expand its footprint, this time near another beautiful Caribbean beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The mission: make Miami Ad School Punta Cana the epicenter of creativity and innovation for Central America and the Caribbean.
The digital landscape is primed with opportunities to reach the growing multicultural segment, but are today’s targeting methods evolving with these audiences?
By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc / LMMiami.com
Social media wasn’t the realm of any one person, department or organization. It was owned by everyone and no one. The only thing early adopters of social media had in common was the desire to create change.
The advent of digital advertising forever changed how media is bought and sold, with advances in programmatic technology leading the way. The appeal of programmatic buying is easy to see, addressing many of the challenges associated with traditional ad sales. To name just a few of the staple ways in which programmatic technology improves advertising transactions, it lets buyers use audience data for targeting; grants access to premium but often challenging-to-buy inventory; and automates complex buying workflows.
The mission is to create a system that puts content in front of a consumer at just the right moment. But all your work stands or falls on what happens then, and success is no accident. It’s the result of delivering content that communicates exactly the right message, for that particular consumer, at that moment in time. Helping to set the stage for this is your messaging framework.
With Labor Day just around the corner, The Conference Board’s latest survey on job satisfaction finds that 51 percent of U.S. employees feel overall satisfied with their job. The results also show that, over the last seven years, employee attitudes about wages and job security experienced the biggest improvements. However, workers feel quite disappointed with their job’s professional development aspects – a warning signal for any organization looking to attract and retain talent in today’s tight labor market.
