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Many Hispanic Adult Millennial workers are employed in retail, sales, food, and construction-fields that they don’t generally see as ideal. They’re working mostly for the money now, but hope to advance into areas like technology, healthcare, education, and creative industries. So when it comes to benefits, what are their current situations offering?

The 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament may not kick off in Brazil until next month, but viewers are already planning on how they’re going to watch the matches. And based on polling conducted by Instant.ly for YuMe, digital devices are reshaping game viewing.

Americans have no shortage of options in every aspect of their lives. The proliferation of devices for consuming content has enabled more choices than most can count. But the “problem” of having too many options—including a growing expanse of content—doesn’t seem to be having an impact on our TV viewing preferences.

The nation’s 65-and-older population is projected to reach 83.7 million in the year 2050, almost double in size from the 2012 level of 43.1 million, according to two reports released from the U.S. Census Bureau. A large part of this growth is due to the aging of baby boomers (individuals born in the United States between mid-1946 and mid-1964), who began turning 65 in 2011 and are now driving growth at the older ages of the population.

Recently the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) released a report that updated research from 2011 on the status of agency remuneration by marketers. Soon there were many articles written about the fact that procurement is now in many instances the lead negotiator with agencies, with marketers playing a secondary role.  Apparently this is bad — really bad. Qualifications like “marketers take back seat” and “pencil and paperclip buyers control agency remuneration” were some of the kinder descriptions.

Amid the squeeze on drug companies due to patent expirations on blockbuster drugs, Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced in April an asset-swapping/joint venture deal, which includes Novartis picking up GSK’s cancer drugs and the two companies forming a joint venture on their respective nonprescription drug consumer units. The venture, GSK Consumer Healthcare, will combine the businesses of Novartis brands including Excedrin and Prevacid with GSK brands including Nicorette, TUMS and Aquafresh. Cheryl Policastro, director of shopper marketing and insights at Novartis Consumer Health, spoke with eMarketer’s Christine Bittar about selling over-the-counter medications and some of the differences between marketing prescription and nonprescription drugs.

The American public is slowly but steadily regaining confidence in corporate America with people now viewing corporate America more positively than they did before the start of the economic decline in 2008, according to the 2014 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient™ (RQ™) study.

The vast majority of brand marketers and advertising agency executives expect original digital video programming to become as important to their businesses as television advertising within the next three to five years, with the bulk of that increased internet spending migrating from television budgets, according to a survey released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), the leading global trade association for the mobile industry, today announced the revealing results of the first-ever Mobile Video Benchmark Study. The study, commissioned by the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and its Mobile Video Committee, sought to provide mobile video performance insights to advertisers, agencies, publishers and third party video servers.

Social media management agency, Emoderation, has opened an office in Miami, to serve brands wanting to reach the US Hispanic and Latin American markets.

Multichannel News is introducing this roster of lawyers who matter, to accompany the three-year-old Financial All-Stars list (the latest edition of which appeared in the Feb. 17 edition).

Fifty-two percent of those in relationships that have joint bank accounts also maintain individual accounts, according to research by TD Bank.

Los Angeles/Buenos Aires-based Nunchaku <director Jony Perel along with director Nico Kasakoff make soccer (fútbol) fans more than ready for World Cup play in a sidesplitting web campaign “The Fan Trainer” for P&G out of Wing Latino, NYC/Miami for the Latin market. 

Círculo Creativo, in partnership with AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing, released the names of the nominees for the Third Annual U.S.H. Idea Awards, which recognize stellar achievement in work created by U.S. Hispanic agencies and directed at Hispanic audiences. Fifteen agencies made the short list of nominations, and the winners will be announced during AHAA’s Annual “Thinking Under the Influence” Conference on April 29 in Miami.

This is an exciting year for the HispanicAd.com Hispanic Account Planning ‘Excelencia ‘ Awards (HAPE), we changed the rules, change the categories and expanded the scope and experience of the Judges to fit the ever changing needs of our competition for analysis, creation, implementation of Insights and the process of Account Planning in the US Hispanic Market.   

HispanicAd.com is  proud to announce the winners of the HispanicAd.com 2014 Media Planning Awards competition.

The Voice of Hispanic Marketing wrapped up three days of creative insights, breaking research and compelling content with the highest caliber of speakers – Rupert Murdoch, Robert Rodriguez, Prince Royce – and an impressive roster of CMOs and top executives from blue-chip brands. It was the most engaged conference with #thinkahaa trending during Mr. Murdoch’s keynote and Prince Royce’s presentation, thanks to his loyal “Roycenaticas.” From attendees following conference activity on their app and interacting with the speakers via Twitter to the presence of the Twitter Mirror to capture attendee selfies, the conference was both informative and fun.

The Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) launched the first phase of a 5-year plan to increase awareness of fishing and boating among Hispanics, and engage the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population in these activities. Starting with a new Spanish-language microsite, VamosAPescar.org, and targeted advertising, the campaign aims to motivate the Hispanic audience to partake in the joys of fishing and boating.

AHAA and Nielsen released a second study, “Upscale Latinos 2.0: A Renewed Outlook for High-End Marketers,” which found that this segment, which contributes nearly 40 percent of the $1.5 trillion Hispanic spending power, leads the overall upscale demographic in optimism, purchase behaviors, and plans to further increase spending.

The April 2014 Audio Today report reveals that the national radio listening audience has hit an all-time high, with over 244 million Americans (age 12 or older) tuning in each week.  We also devote the majority of the report to examining the 40 million Hispanic listeners who happen to be radio’s most engaged listeners.