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The growth of mobile advertising is slowing spending directed toward desktop ad formats faster than expected, according to new figures from eMarketer, raising the question of whether spending on desktop formats like search and banners will ever grow again.

Father’s Day is this weekend, and to celebrate Tr3s is revealing more of its latest research on today’s young Hispanic parents from its 2012 research study, Hispanic Adult Millennials Living the Next Normal: Age of Uncertainty. Last month in our blog, we showed that young Hispanic parents today are not gatekeepers but fortress keepers. They decide carefully what to keep out of kids’ lives and are very selective about what they let in. And fortress keepers aren’t just moms – young dads are also highly involved in controlling their children’s environments. By Insight Tr3s

The average revenue of media and entertainment (M&E) companies will shortly cross the 50% mark from majority traditional to majority digital, according to a new report, Digital agility now!

Grupo Gallegos announced it has hired Jose Pablo Rodriguez as Group Account Director. Rodriguez will serve as a member of the Grupo Gallegos management team with the primary responsibility of leading the agency’s Comcast account.

The research outcome suggests that a new series of consumer behaviors is forming the next-generation version of the purchase funnel. Six clear pathways emerged, defining the most common types of modern digital shoppers. Each of the six segments represents like-minded consumers who follow a given path of varying depth and duration to reach a marketer’s optimal outcome—a sale.

Amscot Financial launches its first multi-ethnic, bilingual Hispanic campaign. The broadcast campaign, spearheaded by G ADMarketing Communications, will air across the largest Hispanic DMAs in Florida — Miami-Dade, Orlando and Tampa, beginning in early June.

Joe Uva, Chairman of NBCUniversal Hispanic Enterprises and Content, Lia Silkworth, EVP, Managing Director for Tapestry, Starcom MediaVest Group and Marla Skiko, EVP and Director of Digital Innovation for SMG’s Multicultural Division, will be the keynoters for the morning sessions at the 11th Annual Hispanic Television Summit, presented by television industry publications Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on Wednesday, October 2, 2013.

Paulo Castro, Chief Executive Officer of Terra, announced that as part of Terra’s strategic plan, Gerardo Adame will lead the company’s operations in the United States.

“Mi Telemundo” targeted for Spanish dominant Hispanic viewers and “Tu Pulso Latino,” targeted for bilingual, millennial Hispanic viewers, will inform and inspire a deeper understanding of Hispanic viewers’ influences and desires via automatic content recognition (ACR) data combined with survey-based responses, and uncover never before seen consumption trends via SymphonyAM’s patent-pending passive measurement technology that continuously runs in the background of the panelist’s smartphone, tablet or PC.

“The State of Men” examines shifts in male roles, behavior, attitudes and mindsets, focusing on how masculinity is being redefined circa 2013, how men’s role in the home is changing and how men are navigating the new gender order.

McAfee released findings from the company’s 2013 Digital Deception: Exploring the Online Disconnect between Parents and Kids study. The study examines the online habits and interests of preteens, teens, and young adults and finds there is a significant disconnect between what they do online and what their parents believe they do. While youth understand that the Internet is dangerous, they still engage in risky behavior, hiding this activity from their parents in a variety of ways and acknowledging that they (46%) would change their behavior if they knew their parents were paying attention.

Just 9% of CEOs and 6% of CFOs leverage marketing data in this manner. The reason? Marketing dashboards report marketing activity rather than business outcomes, as marketers cling to performance metrics to continuously justify budgets and resource allocations — when instead they should show how marketing moves the needle on top-line growth or profitability.