By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director / LMMiami.com
- Throughout my decades-long career in advertising I have strongly advocated once and again for the use of casts of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
- Not because I am a progressive beacon of inclusivity (which I am, of course).
- I want my clients to sell more products and services.
- I want to make their cash registers ring.
- If the demographic composition of the markets where they peddle their wares shows that non-euro centric complexions are the majority, then let’s cast talent with non-euro centric complexions, right?
- Don’t be too sure.
Brands such as Noosa, Bai and Halo Top didn’t exist 10 years ago, but within a decade, they’ve changed the competitive landscape and become a major thorn in the side of big consumer products companies by capturing a disproportionate share of growth and, in some cases, radically disrupting profit pools.
The spread of mobile devices and rapid mobile data networks has transformed global media consumption in recent years. 24% of all media consumption across the world will be mobile this year, up from just 5% in 2011, according to Zenith’s Media Consumption Forecasts 2018, published today. By 2020 we expect this proportion to reach 28% as the mobile internet takes share from almost all other media. The rise of mobile is also forcing brands to transform the way they plan their communications across media, focusing less on channels and more on consumer mind-set as the distinctions between channels are eroded.
For younger workers, the gap is widening between what responsible companies should achieve and what businesses’ actual priorities are. The good news, according to the 2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey : Business leaders have an opportunity to turn things around—and win back millennials’ loyalty.
Today, access to information is unprecedented, consumers are empowered to make smarter buying decisions and marketers have amassed immense quantities of data about consumers. Technology has transformed many industries permanently, but perhaps none as much as marketing.
Until recently, Facebook had dominated the social media landscape among America’s youth – but is no longer the most popular online platform among teens, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Today, roughly half (51%) of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 say they use Facebook, notably lower than the shares who use YouTube, Instagram or Snapchat.
Every entrepreneur has his or her reasons for starting a business.
Mastercard is taking another significant step in its commitment to help combat childhood hunger and malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Pity the modern CMO, out there every day trying to break down silos and align internal teams and external partners.
Did you know that 94% of CFOs would increase digital marketing budgets if there were clear evidence the investment resulted in sales? And yet, marketers are still struggling to prove and to communicate how digital marketing efforts affect the bottom line of their businesses. That’s just one symptom of the longstanding disconnect between marketing and finance – but it’s one that can be overcome.
Retailers still trying to unlock the question of millennial spending patterns, take note: Millennials are sagging under a heavier debt load than Gen Xers faced at this point in their economic lives.
The report tracks the value of the world’s most valuable brands and provides insights on the potential of strong brands. The total brand value of the 2018 BrandZ Top 100 is $4.4 trillion following a record 21% growth – equating to a rise of nearly $750 billion.
Five the key themes firmly set on the CMO agenda: revenue generation, customer experience, data, content and processes.
NGL Collective announced an exclusive partnership with YoAmo Media, a Latina media platform,in Spanish. NGL will be exclusively representing YoAmo in the U.S. Hispanic market, where it will serve as the centerpiece of NGL’s newly launched ELLA (Exclusive Latina Lifestyle Access) platform, dually leveraging NGL’s massive video scale and award-winning in-house production studio to U.S. advertisers. 
Entravision Communications Corporation, an official radio affiliate partner of Fútbol de Primera for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, announced new exclusive promotional events and content in support of its coverage of the FIFA World Cup across its radio stations in 16 markets.
While agencies have adapted to consulting firms’ disruption of the media landscape and their role as auditors in the client-agency partnership, we feel strongly that Accenture Interactive’s new Programmatic Services unit is a clear conflict of interest, positioning Accenture to engage in media trading and then also be responsible for auditing the trading results and processes of its competitors.
A new study from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and Deloitte, surveying close to 200 chief marketers worldwide, revealed many CMOs are still focused on the traditional storytelling aspect of their position and are less comfortable with aspects associated with driving growth, including acting as revenue science practitioners and customer experience architects.
Amid widening gaps in politics and demographics, Americans in urban, suburban and rural areas share many aspects of community life
