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Since 2001, the ANA has made it an annual tradition to honor marketers and agencies that produce outstanding multicultural advertising campaigns with the ANA Multicultural Excellence Awards. Each year we hear that the quality of the advertising gets better and better! A true testament to the work that goes into creating extraordinary, and quite often, emotional ads that make a brand memorable. One of the most impactful ads I’ve seen is “#HowWeFamily” by Johnson & Johnson – the 2015 Grand Prize Winner of the Total Market category! I recently caught up with Vivian Nasamu-Odior (pictured), Brand Manager of Communications OTC Pain Brands at Johnson & Johnson, who worked on this wonderful representation of Total Market to find out what the impact of winning the award has had on J&J.  By Janine Martella, Director of Committees and Conferences at the ANA
 

Ad spending on paid digital media by the US automotive industry will hit $8.71 billion in 2016, up 17.3% year over year. This figure will climb to $14.14 billion by 2020, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.7% from 2015 to 2020.

The 2016 report shows how brands that are leading in innovation have disrupted conventional ways of doing business. Some innovative brands have risen to the top of the ranking and others have just made the list. We also demonstrate how strong brand value helps brands stay in the Top 100 year after year.

Latinos have become considerably more upbeat about their personal finances and optimistic about their financial future since the Great Recession, according to newly released results from a national survey of Latino adults. The survey also shows that Latinos have pulled even with the general U.S. population in their views of their personal finances and continue to outpace them on optimism about the future.

Univision and Eventus announced the dates and lineup of the artists who will headline the 2016 Premios Juventud VIP Tour (PJ VIP Tour), with Unilever as official sponsor, a series of private concerts with performances by today’s leading Latin music stars, including past Premios Juventud nominees and winners.

There’s no denying that the balance of power in the consumer industry has tilted. Retailers have the advantage over consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) manufacturers—and retail buyers are deftly using their leverage at the negotiating table. Retail buyers are more sophisticated, more analytical, and more demanding than ever.  By Kari Alldredge, Brandon Brown, and Max Magni

The email arrives and your jaw clenches: It’s planning time again and there’s nothing you can do about it. No matter what else is on your plate, you know that the next month or so will be dominated by filling out templates and sitting through endless planning sessions. The irony is that you have some strategic ideas you’re really excited about but you figure you’ll have to work the back channels to get them in front of the right people. Previous experience has taught you that your company’s formal planning process is where the best ideas go to die.  By Mark Judah, Dunigan O’Keeffe, David Zehner and Lucy Cummings

When a disruptor invades a market, a predictable ritual ensues. The invader makes threatening, exaggerated claims. This is the chest-thumping, attention-seeking stage. And the attention it seeks is media attention. Which duly follows. The prey will either publicly shrug it off, pointing out to the same media the strategic changes they’d made recently to address the very shortcoming being exploited (guaranteeing more media attention), or they’ll play the insouciance card, pretending to ignore the interloper, while working desperately undercover to determine if the problem is real.

The highly coveted millennials. The next wave of influencers. The ones who will define luxury, style, culture and even politics. No generation has a more sophisticated or developed sense of storytelling and film making. They’ve grown up with editing software at their fingertips, 1080p HD video cameras on their phones and high-production value everything.

PACO Collective announced it will be providing public relations, strategy, content development and community relations to the Chicago Bears to help drive Hispanic fan avidity and engagement within the Hispanic community.

Numerous non-transparent business practices, including cash rebates to media agencies, were found to be pervasive in a sample of the U.S. media ad-buying ecosystem, according to a study commissioned by the ANA (Association of National Advertisers).  DOWNLOAD REPORT HERE.

“Whistle” launches tonight with a fully integrated effort for both the General and Hispanic markets, including an epic :90 online version just in time to kick off the Copa America tournament. Or – as we soccer aficionados call it – “let’s use all our personal days month.”

Millennials are the most diverse adult generation in U.S. history. They are only 56 percent white compared to about three-quarters of Baby Boomers.  This truly substantial change is being driven by Hispanics, who comprise 11 percent of the Baby Boomer population, but nearly a quarter of Millennials.  By David Morse / New America Dimensions

Business-to-business marketing executives must combine strong leadership skills with deep marketing experience to clearly establish their companies’ competitive advantage, which will allow them to increase their influence and play key roles in driving sales, boosting brand awareness, and increasing customer loyalty.

Thanks to media multitasking, US adults will squeeze an average of 12 hours, 5 minutes per day of media usage into their waking hours this year—nearly an hour more than the average in 2011. But the daily figure is now rising slowly and is expected to grow by just 3 minutes between 2016 and 2018.

By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc – LMMIAMI.COM

• A friend and colleague of mine who founded and runs a fairly successful advertising agency, whose name I cannot reveal lest he hates me forever, recently told me, and I quote: “Most Latinos working in marketing and advertising on the client side are a bunch of malinches and groupies. They systematically turn their backs on us to throw themselves, and the brands they run, into the arms of multinational advertising conglomerates who charge them an arm and a leg for a culturally tin-eared, flat-footed, grossly overpriced, subpar service”.

The annual Internet Trends report by Mary Meeker is considered one of the report to read regarding the tech industry.

Ooyala’s new report shows that everyone is a producer now—and that speed and mobility loom larger than ever in the digital future

Media consumers who prefer native digital content now make up nearly half the audience for entertainment in developed markets and more than a third of the audience for publishing and online services.

About 6-in-10 Americans get news from social media A majority of U.S. adults – 62% – get news on social media, and 18% do so often, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center, conducted in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.