By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc. / LMMiami.com
- Our limbs are ours because we can feel them.
- We can feel WITH and THROUGH them.
- We can sense the sand and the water embracing our toes in the warm summer surf.
- We can touch the sleek texture of the screen as we frantically scroll down through myriad messages on our inseparable mobile devices.

Attention. Human-viewable. Audience. Fraud-free. Sales.
When you first start out in your career, you might fall back on a mental habit from your early educational experience: distinguishing between days to work hard and learn, and days to relax and have fun. But if you want to get ahead in the advertising world, you’ll quickly discover that the only way to hone your skills and stand out is to approach every day—and every stage of your career—as a school day.
Are the marketers and advertisers that the Executive Director of the Culture Marketing Council (CMC) speaks to every day aware of the power of Hispanic radio? Are they actively using Spanish-language radio stations to reach an important consumer segment?
No, no and no. Stop. Niet. Nein. Stay away! Don’t even think about it. Leave it to me! I do this for a living, seriously. It’s how I pay for my frijoles! Yankee go home!
As a Millennial marketer, it’s a weird feeling to listen to panels and read articles from current CMOs, CEOs and Marketing Directors explaining how to reach the “elusive Millennial.” Hello! We are right here in the audience; just ask us. Millennials, born between 1980 and 1995, have experienced the launch and rebranding of social media sites, search engines and online shopping sites. We are aware that our data is being collected and now influencing advertising creative and what ads are personally delivered to us. In my opinion, this very recognition and insight makes Millennials the very opposite of elusive.
If I had received Wall Street analyst Brian Wieser’s most recent note to investors a day earlier, I would have thought it was an April Fool’s prank, but the fact that it is datelined April 2nd, affirms that it starts off with Wieser’s perennial sense of humor: A mock exchange between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explaining his infamous “dumb as f***s” quip to a Senators at a Congressional hearing on consumer data privacy slated for later this month. by Joe Mandese
National advertisers are so enamored with influencer marketing that a full 75 percent of their companies currently employ the discipline and almost half (43 percent) are planning to increase their spending on it in the next 12 months.























