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With the 2018 FIFA World Cup™ underway, the exclusive Spanish-language broadcaster, Telemundo Deportes, announced that it has been honored with four prestigious international awards for excellence in promotion, marketing and design to promote the tournament in North America.

Targetspot announced an expansion of its MultiCultural Platform with a new office in Los Angeles and appoints Rudy Balderrama as West Coast Senior Sales Executive.

Companies that harness creativity and data in tandem have growth rates twice as high as companies that don’t. Here’s how they do it.

The Miami Super Bowl 2020 Host Committee has selected Miami-based advertising and communications agency Republica as its agency partner.  Republica will provide marketing services to Miami Super Bowl 2020 including branding, advertising and channel strategy.

Casanova//McCann announced today the addition of Jonathan Lackey to its staff in the newly created position of Director of Digital Services.

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

• Advertising is under fire.
• As a business, as an industry, as a cultural agent.
• Our relevance and our legitimacy as creators and guardians of the canon and its values is called into question literally 24/7.
• In the age of social media, everything we “create” is scrutinized and torn apart ipso facto by some troll with too much time in his or her hands.
• Everything our creatives come up with seems to be tin-eared, flat-footed or offensive in some way or other.
• Fair enough.
• Question is, do we really “create” in the ad business.

Dallas-based executive search firm, DCAProSearch, announced the rebranding of its firm to represent all diverse markets in the areas of advertising and marketing professionals in this new digital age.

Around the globe, few things are as ubiquitous as the sport of fútbol, le foot, calcio, or, as it’s called in the U.S., soccer.  While Americans have their own special moniker for it, the sport has certainly made its own imprint in the U.S. Soccer’s influence and power in the world of televised sports is no exception.  Behind this driving force are U.S. Hispanic viewers, whose consumption habits give televised soccer a unique and powerful profile.

Gen Zers and Millennials are the most optimistic compared to the other generations while Boomers are significantly less optimistic on how they view their finances for 2018. Additionally, U.S. Born are significantly more optimistic than the larger base of Foreign Born and those born in Puerto Rico and moved to the U.S. 

2018 has been a record year for the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global brands. Following a 21 percent brand value increase – equivalent to the GDP of Switzerland – the total value of the BrandZ Global Top 100 has reached a staggering $4.4 trillion. It is no surprise that tech and tech-related brands such as Google, Amazon and PayPal lead the way, but this year the ranking holds a mirror to world events as we see a growing battle for dominance between the East and West as the number of Chinese brands in the ranking increased and dominated the list of fastest risers.  by Guest Contributor Doreen Wang

There has never been a more dynamic and challenging time to be a marketer. Since the advent of the internet, fueled by available high-speed access and ignited by the proliferation of powerful new devices, marketers have more access to consumers than ever before. We’re awash in data and should be living in a nirvana of actionable insights.  By Brett House, VP Product Marketing and Strategy

The U.S. product placement marketplace is poised to top $10 billion this year, thanks largely to increasing demand for higher-value integrations between brands and programmers, including content on over-the-top streaming services that don’t accept conventional forms of advertising.

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming businesses and will contribute to economic growth via contributions to productivity. They will also help address “moonshot” societal challenges in areas from health to climate change.

The Culture Marketing Council (CMC) believes that the addition of the citizenship question will decrease census participation, causing the census to yield inaccurate results.

Most companies take an internally oriented approach to organizing around products, processes and functions such as risk management and marketing. But a few pioneering companies have begun to organize around how customers experience their products and services. They have decided that the well-developed metrics and processes for product and functional management don’t provide a reliable compass for tracking the overall experience.

Empowerment of customers has required almost every business to transform, whether they know it or not, and customer journeys need to be ex-examined if true CX transformation is to be achieved.

Soccer is not only one of the most popular sports in the world, but it’s one that has become an integral part of describing our culture in most of the countries in Latin America. We have all experienced and talked about memorable moments of happiness, excitement, surprise and disappointment. Our passion for soccer unites us and helps us, for a moment, to take our mind off of difficult times our countries may be facing.  By: Claudia Gioia, Hill+Knowlton Strategies President, CEO Latin America & the Caribbean

Live TV isn’t dead yet but it’s taken a major hit across all viewing audiences, according to a new study released by ThinkNow, a technology driven cultural insights agency.

Entravision Communications Corporation announced it has acquired Smadex, a digital advertising technology company. 

U.S. Marketers are quickly shifting growth priorities among multicultural (MC) segments, especially since the White Non-Hispanic (WNH) segment has been declining since 2016. The MC economic outlook for 2018 looks remarkably powerful for several reasons