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Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA)announced that interim leader Sylvia Acevedo has been named permanent CEO of the 105-year-old organization, effective immediately.

Clio Sports recently announced the 2017 Sports Marketing Award winners honoring Austin-based LatinWorks with four awards for their campaign with Major League Baseball (MLB) #PonleAcento (Put An Accent On It).

Uncertainty is causing consumers to engage in money-saving efforts, but they’re still opening their wallets for the right premium products.

The industry road that ad agencies are wandering down is about to narrow. Sooner or later, agencies will find themselves at a fork that is less like a choice and more like an inevitably. The fork will not involve a 50-50 choice. Heads to the left; tails to the right? No; it’s not that kind of fork. The choice will be between the High Road, to the left, and the Low Road to the right.  By Michael Farmer / Madison Avenue Manslaughter Archives

Vincent Cordero and David Torres have launched INVIVO Media Group, a privately-held 360 brand and business amplification company including live music promotion, talent commercial partnerships and strategic media consulting, with a particular focus on the U.S. Latino and the Latin American marketplaces.

A wide-ranging public opinion poll conceived and commissioned by LAVIDGE and Mosaic Multicultural found surprising and insightful consumer sentiments about how people are responding to healthcare marketing messages.

Given we know that most people do not hang around to watch a video to completion it makes me wonder why the 30 second spot is still so popular.  by Nigel Hollis

AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing announced today that Ford Motor Company is the winner of the 2017 AHAA Marketer of the Year Award. Ford joins a prestigious short list of elite brands that have received the award, including McDonald’s, State Farm, Toyota, and Walmart. David Rodriguez, multicultural marketing director for Ford will accept the award and discuss the automaker’s commitment to the Hispanic and multicultural market at AHAA’s 2017 Annual Conference.

Most executives agree that a digital transformation is necessary to remain competitive, keep pace with disruptive technologies and evolve with shifting consumer expectations. Still, many are unsure of how to start the process, or even what it ent

Boost Mobile introduces its new brand campaign, “Project Switch.”

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

• Don’t let the social media echo chamber fool you.
• Haters, aka trolls, tend to be a minority.
• Haters force people to take sides.

Representatives Kevin Yoder (R-KS) and Eliot Engel (D-NY) have sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in support of protecting the current tax deductibility of advertising. This letter is extremely significant for the advertising community and shows wide congressional support for our industry. There were 124 bipartisan members of Congress who signed the letter.

Here are three reasons programmatic is failing

I believe that a brand’s greatest asset is its ability to command the price it chooses, not one that is determined by competitor or retailer pressure. Sure, you have to grow sales, but any fool knows how to do that. Just drop your price. Until that is people learn to expect your brand to be on discount. Then the trouble really starts.  by Nigel Hollis

Niccolò Machiavelli, one of history’s great futurists, might have predicted the Internet of Things (IoT) when he wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

Around the globe, shared service centers (SSCs) have proven their commitment to becoming more efficient and effective, according to Deloitte’s 10th biennial “2017 Global Shared Services Survey.” Providing insight into the reality of the wide-ranging scale of modern business

Ad agencies have had a tough time for the past decade. Reduced retainers. Disappearing AOR relationships, as clients expanded their portfolios of agencies. Inflating Scopes of Work, straining the capabilities of agencies’ downsized and juniorized staffs.  By Michael Farmer – Madison Avenue Manslaughter

The role of public relations is evolving. The ANA partnered with the USC Center for Public Relations at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to understand current client-side marketer perceptions of public relations.  By Bill Duggan, Group EVP, ANA

According to new research, marketers have had concerns about viewability and ad blocking for some time—and these concerns have increased even more over the past year.

But just because you, an advertising professional, possess these behaviors does that mean everyone else in this country does too?