Agency

The agency vrtccom (Vertice Communication Corp), based out of Torrance, CA will manage the
communication of the Spanish book fair in Los Angeles, LéaLA as informed by Eduardo Torres, CEO of
vrtccom.

Boy that did not take long. It was just a few short weeks ago that Televisa and Univision made up, and now we are starting to see that Emilio not only picked up his Univision ownership at pennies on the dollar, but he also got himself a few extra perks. The first being the keys to the Univision news division, not a bad perk by any standards. By Jose Cancela.

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d expósito & Partners together with Amway, announced the official launch of Fábrica de Sueños presented by Amway, a one hour special that will take viewers through a Latino celebrity’s journey to stardom.

Telmar announced the release of Telmar Matterhorn ROI, a new cross media planning tool developed with ROI research firm Marketing Evolution, to allow Impact Reach Exposure Planning (IREP). For the first time, media buyers will be able to create plans based on the true value of exposing specific, targeted consumers to one or more impressions during each stage of the path to purchase cycle and measure the ROI.

Omni Direct, Inc. announced its strategic alliance with FHS and its Creative Director, Fausto Sanchez, who will help lead the charge of the company’s creative efforts.

Don Browne and Joe Uva prove what I’ve said all along: You don’t have to be Hispanic to succeed with Hispanics, but you do have to get Hispanics. More importantly, you have to sincerely care about the things Hispanics want, so you can deliver against it.

I’m glad Comcast recognized that a couple of weeks ago when it announced its executive lineup. They kept Browne at the helm of Telemundo.

Pampers announced the start of a robust campaign focused on the belief that every baby is a little miracle and should be celebrated, supported and protected. The campaign provides new resources and support for Latina moms and their babies in their communities, celebrating the joy every little baby brings into the world.

Marketers are recognizing the value of magnetic content over traditional disruptive forms of advertising, according to research from the Custom Content Council in partnership with branded-content newsletter ContentWise.

Overall, 68% of companies said they were shifting from traditional forms of marketing to more emphasis on branded content, including 61% who reported a moderate shift and 7% who said their shift was “aggressive.”

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“The key result of this update is the continued rise of developing markets and digital media, and their central role in driving global growth,” said Steve King, ZenithOptimedia’s worldwide CEO. “In fact the importance of the internet is underrepresented in these figures. Advertisers are investing a lot more in owned and earned media, where their activities do not count as ad expenditure in the traditional sense.”

As economies started to recover from the collapse of real estate-fueled bubbles in much of the world,2010 brought a period of relative stability — and in many instances improvement-compared to the upheavals experienced during 2009. While painful adjustments to a state of equilibrium will take many years for some economies, especially Greece and Ireland, other nations such as China and India continued to rocket ahead as if the global financial crisis never occurred. In 2011, countries posting growth will more than compensate for the relatively small number of laggards. DOWNLOAD REPORT HERE.

DAISY EXPÓSITO-ULLA Chairman and chief executive, D Expósito & Partners, an ad agency based in New York

I WAS born outside Havana in an apartment upstairs from my father‚s hardware store. He‚d taken it over from his father, who had moved from Spain in 1920.

My first few years were the last few years of the Batista dictatorship. Like many other middle-class business people, my father supported Fidel Castro. After the revolution in 1959 was the happiest time I can remember. But when Castro declared Cuba a socialist state and himself a Marxist-Leninist, my father felt so betrayed.

Published: NY Times – December 4, 2010

Global advertising spending in measured media is expected to exceed $500 billion for the first time ever next year following an economic recovery that also sparked significant ad spending increases in 2010, according to a revised report from GroupM.

The Association Of National Advertisers is offering links to videos of the major presentation during the 2010 ANA Multicultural event FREE of charge.