By Gonzalo López Martí- Creative director, etc / LMMiami.com
- It was founded with fanfare by two former Google employees, Paul McDonald and Ashwath Rajan, and is getting tons of pretty negative coverage in the media.
- The business plan: replacing actual bodegas with some sort of novelty vending machines.
- “Turning bodegas into a thing of the past,” to quote the founders.

The Univision Creator Network (UCN) launched five digital shows for the new Facebook platform for shows, Watch, featuring hugely popular Hispanic creators in scripted comedy series.
How a data-based approach to anticipating consumer behavior will change marketing forever
With the explosion of digital media and data over the past 20 years, however, and the technical challenges it introduced, the entire marketing ecosystem veered away from people-based principles. Marketers, caught up in the excitement over opportunities created by the always-connected consumer, lost sight of the fact that they were no longer marketing to people, but to approximations of people — cookies, mobile IDs, and a host of other digital identifiers.
Nobody knows your company quite like those on the front lines. Junior producers, account execs, senior planners – they have visibility on details upper management can never have. These people see firsthand where resources are mismanaged and opportunities are missed.
Advertising is facing challenges on many fronts, especially within the two largest media, digital and television. Among the large packaged goods marketers and big brands who dominate television, we have market-share losses to smaller brands driving reduced spending for many who budget for advertising as a percentage of revenue and zero-based budgeting tactics for others.






















