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Burson-Marsteller announced the launch of the Burson-Marsteller Cuba Specialty Team

  Depending on when you met Danny Villanueva he was either a professional football player, first rate television broadcaster, pioneer of Hispanic media, private equity magnate or a philanthropist.  To those who knew him best, Danny was a mentor, cheerleader, role model and somebody always looking for ways to help his community advance.  By Roberto Orci

Maren Lau is the CMO at IMS Internet Media Services, a digital marketing and communications company that helps brands enter and grow in the Latin America digital market. She spoke with eMarketer’s Daiane Bobka about the biggest digital trends in the region.

Through Emojiball, Tampico, known as the “blend master of refreshing exotic fruit flavors,” aims to celebrate the fun-loving nature of its brand by combining the cross-cultural mobile language of emojis with the excitement of a mastermind-esque guessing-game.

Eight hundred billion dollars in global consumer buying influence. Two hundred billion in the U.S. You wouldn’t expect those figures to be linked to teenagers. But study after study shows that this is the reality. In my opinion, it earns teens a seat at the table and their due respect as significant players in our marketplace. So, as marketers, how do we reach them and how do we make it stick? Teens are subdivided into more lifestyle groups than just about any other demographic.

For decades, Hollywood studios thought of the world in terms of two screens: the big ones in movie theaters, and the smaller TV screens in people’s homes, the latter serving to let people know which shoot ’em up or romantic comedy they could go see at the theater each weekend. But now, technology has advanced to the point where the average person has three, four or even five screens in their lives, with the primary one small enough to fit in their pocket.

Univision Holdings, Inc.  announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its Class A common stock.

Univision Holdings, Inc. and Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. announced that, together with Univision’s major shareholders, they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) and that certain subsidiaries of Univision and Televisa entered into an amendment to their existing Program Licensing Agreement (the “PLA Amendment”).

When it comes to hot topics in the media realm, it doesn’t get much bigger than cross-platform audience measurement.

Marketers today are drowning in a pool of data.  With so much data being created and captured from hundreds of sources and channels, being able to properly identify it across online and offline channels, and linking it to your customer will be key to personalizing and increasing customer engagement.

Grupo Gallegos and Comcast’s XFINITY have launched “Perfect for Me” for Bicultural Hispanics as a follow-up to their acclaimed “Because I Can” campaign.

Coinciding with the beginning of summer and the vacation season, the latest GfK study examined satisfaction levels with amounts of leisure time around the world – and United States consumers ranked as happiest with their time off.  

After much waiting and preparation, the time has come to go to market with a new product or marketing campaign to boost awareness, and your company needs to build a campaign plan that will produce favorable results.   With all the marketing possibilities available these days, it takes some thought out strategic planning to come up with the best marketing plan for a specific product.

In part-one, we went over 5 tips discussing the actual creation of a campaign, and what you should think about before you launch.    In part two, we’ll review what you can do from an operational perspective to ensure stronger ROI and reporting.

Engagement is at the heart of content marketing. April 2015 research by Pulsepoint and Digiday found that brand engagement was the No. 1 marketing objective supported by content marketing, cited by 66.8% of UK and US agency and brand professionals.

Total U.S. advertising expenditures declined 4.0 percent in the first quarter of 2015 to $37.4 billion, according to data released by Kantar Media.

The Pew Research Center’s unit studying the internet and society began systematically measuring internet adoption among Americans in 2000.

Despite struggles, marketers remain focused on improving big data, and those putting money toward such efforts are reaping the benefits.

Bilingual multicultural marketing communications professional Lissette M. Rodriguez announced the launch of Chic Influence, a new public relations agency specializing in building influence with the powerful U.S. Hispanic market while simultaneously bringing client stories to the mainstream forefront.

By Gonzalo López Martí    LMMIAMI.COM

• I was watching the award-winners at the Cannes Festival last week.
• Sifting through the usual parade of bogus entries one thing piqued my attention.
• Honda (the car maker) steadily creates beautiful campaigns in the UK.
• Over there, it seems, they are trying to “build the brand”.
• Here in America, not so much.
• Why?