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Ad spending rose 3.3 percent year-over-year, from January to September 2012, according to Nielsen’s quarterly Global AdView Pulse report. Though advertisers continue to spend the most on television ads, Internet and cinema ad spend grew the most during the period at 7.7 percent and 9.2 percent, respectively.

A Pew nationwide survey finds that Hispanic identity continues to be most rooted in family country of origin while the terms Latino and Hispanic are not as top of mind. The United States government uses the terms “Hispanic” or “Latino” to categorize Americans who trace their roots to Spanish-speaking countries. In its classification system, the federal government recognizes just one ethnic group, Hispanic/Latino, which it defines as follows: “A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.” By Insight Tr3s

The integrated campaign seeks to broaden the awareness and understanding of the Aflac brand in the Hispanic marketplace, which is significantly lower than in English-speaking market segments. It will include two attention-grabbing television commercials along with radio and digital activations. In Press Conference, viewers are directed to MejoratePato.com (GetWellDuck.com), where they will find a wealth of information in Spanish about Aflac, its products, and the Aflac Duck.

From April 29th to May 1st, AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing will bring together the best of Hispanic marketing and creativity as part of the “Thinking Under the Influence” conference taking place at the Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel in Miami. Attendees will be treated to content highlighting the Hispanic influence that is currently driving much of America’s evolving culture and therefore the marketing industry as a whole.

Nine out of 10 (89 percent) of consumer package goods (CPG) executives Deloitte surveyed expect their company’s sales through the warehouse club channel to increase during that time. This channel is outpacing grocery in CPG companies’ focus, as less than half (49 percent) expect grocery sales to increase during that three-year period, while one in six (18 percent) expect sales in the grocery channel to decline.

A little brand loyalty goes a long way. More than half (60%) of digital consumers around the world prefer to buy new products from a familiar brand than switch to a new brand, according to a new global study from Nielsen.

Marketers in the $1.3 trillion global telecommunications industry are being both challenged and enabled by free over-the-top (OTT) communications service providers, such as Google, Skype and Facebook.

Urban consumers in China, Brazil and Singapore are proving to be the world’s most voracious users of digital media, powered by the rapid uptake of smartphones and tablets according to the KPMG International 2013 Digital Debate.

Less than one in five respondents in the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer believes a business or governmental leader will actually tell the truth when confronted with a difficult issue. This lack of confidence in traditional authority figures was continually reinforced in 2012 against the backdrop of high-profile scandals involving CEO and government officials, including former McKinsey managing partner Rajat Gupta, former Chinese government official Bo Xilai and Lance Armstrong, former chairman of the Livestrong Foundation. Available on HispanicPRpro.com

Digital and Direct Marketers are beginning the new year with a slight pick-up in the pace of new job growth, according to Bernhart Associates’ Quarterly Digital and Direct Marketing Hiring Report for the first quarter of 2013.

Walgreens and Televisa Consumer Products are offering a line of over-the-counter and personal care products focused on Hispanic consumers at select stores in the United States. Products include haircare, skincare, cough/cold, and pain/sleep items. Walgreens has recently expanded the availability of these products based on product performance in designated test stores.

The number of doctors and teachers who left Puerto Rico for the U.S. mainland in quadrupled in a year, according to Census Bureau figures that shed stark light on the so-called “brain drain” from the island. Courtesy of Caribbean Business

MAGNA GLOBAL forecasts media owners advertising revenues to grow by +3.1% in 2013. This is 1.4% less than our previous forecast published in June 2012 (+4.5%). The revision is mostly caused by a slow-down in economic growth and continued economic uncertainty in Europe and the US, as well as the cautionary marketing spend that took place in the second half of this year.

Orlando, Miami, and New York were among the top 10 destinations for Hispanic travelers last year, according to 2012 booking data from Hotels.com.

Latin America clocks the third-smallest total ad expenditures of any region in the world, and its digital outlays are similarly depressed, ahead of only the Middle East and Africa. As a result, digital ad spending in Latin America will make up among the smallest share of total media ad spending of any region throughout the forecast period, according to eMarketer’s worldwide ad spending forecast.

Today’s kids aren’t the first to come of age with the internet and digital devices. But they are the first to grow up in households where usage is a routine part of family life, according to a new eMarketer report, “Kids Online: Digital Natives in Digital Homes.”

There has been a lot of concern and confusion in the Hispanic ad agency world this week as a result of Univision’s announcement of the launch of their internal ad agency called “The Univision Agency. By Jose Villa is the President of Sensis.

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