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Miami based Schwartz Media Strategies has named Katherine Doble as Director of Digital Media and Branding. 

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has revealed the recipients of the eleventh annual IAB MIXX Awards at a dinner reception and celebration attended by leaders of the digital marketing and media world.

It’s not enough to just sell a product or service—companies must truly engage with their customers. Here’s how to embed experience design in your organization.

A few lucky brands and agencies own a place in popular culture forever because of their ability to find that one big idea. But that era is gone and the effort to get it back creates frustration between clients and agencies.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and its Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence today released “Generation Z & Young Millennials: Mobile First on Campus,” a study conducted with Qriously that shows that smartphone screens should be the primary medium for reaching today’s college students – the first of Generation Z and last of the Millennial generation to enter young adulthood on campus.

You’re more likely to survive a plane crash than you are to click a banner ad. And you can research and buy virtually any product, at any time, from any touch point. This fundamental capability overrides the marketing funnel and reorders the priorities of media.

Jägermeister announced the continuation of it’s first-ever campaign developed to reach America’s fastest growing population, Hispanics. “Sin Igual,” which translates to “Like No Other,” is a unique campaign that parallels the shared passion, authenticity and cultural roots that both the iconic herbal liqueur and Latinos proudly share.

As managing director, strategy/creative, Velez will oversee the operations and staff of the Miami office while generating and nurturing new business leads and converting qualified leads to client partner relationships.

Aaron’s, Inc. is partnering with Univision Network’s “Despierta America” for its first “Despierta En Tu Nuevo Hogar” (Wake Up in Your New Home) contest that includes a grand prize package which will fill the winner’s home full of furniture, electronics and appliances valued at more than $24,000.

comScore, Inc. and Rentrak Corporation announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which the companies will combine in a stock-for-stock merger.

Asian immigrants are projected to make up a larger share of all immigrants, becoming the largest immigrant group by 2055 and making up 38% of the foreign-born population by 2065. (Hispanics will remain a larger share of the nation’s overall population.)

Being Mexican American is tough. Anglos jump all over you if you don’t speak English perfectly. Mexicans jump all over you if you don’t speak Spanish perfectly.  BY David R. Morse – President & CEO / New American Dimensions

If we didn’t  already, now we know for sure that consumers don’t love our brands and ads so much. Apparently, they’re prepared to pay to ban intrusive and non-relevant advertising from their lives. People love the ability to block marketing efforts, whether it’s ad blocking for $2.99 or an ad-free subscription with Hulu, Netflix or Amazon.

Ad campaigns on Instagram can generate significant lift in ad recall and direct response engagement. With 80 million photos posted a day, the popular app attracts many audiences. One key audience on the platform is Millennials, which includes many subgroups such as young, maturing, multicultural affinities, parents, and others.

By Gonzalo López Martí / LMMIAMI.COM

• Once upon a time, strategic planners were market research experts with deep knowledge of consumer behavior, motivations and insights.
• No wonder clients loved them.
• They still love’em hard.
• Sometimes more so than they do us creatives.
• Kudos.
• Well deserved.
• Strategic planners managed to add credibility to creativity.
• Of course, an awful lot of strategic planners are just psychobabbling creative wannabes.

In collaboration with NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, the partnership will utilize their digital and social audiences to distribute the content and create exclusive sponsorship opportunities.

You know how you can get all this amazing free stuff on the Internet? You can read anything you want, learn anything you want, watch anything you want? Well, that’s the secret: It isn’t actually free.

Gender inequality is not only a pressing moral and social issue but also a critical economic challenge. If women—who account for half the world’s working-age population—do not achieve their full economic potential, the global economy will suffer.

While Hispanic Millennials do skew towards English, it’s important to note that more than half of them consume some or all of their Television content in Spanish. The reason for this appears to be that broadcast is still where a lot of the content they want to see is aired. Additionally, there’s evidence that suggests that Spanish language advertising is better at connecting with bilingual Hispanics so it may also be the better option for advertisers looking to reach Hispanic Millennials.

Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. and Grupo Gallegos announced the launch of a new advertising campaign that will specifically target US Hispanic consumers, titled “Destino,” which is Spanish for both destination and destiny.