Moderate growth is still growth.
The economic slowdown will eventually take its toll on total US media ad spending, but not in the immediate future. Spending increases in 2008 across all media will bounce back from last year’s flat growth to a 3.3% gain. Much of those increases will be in TV advertising, especially with the national election and the summer Olympics.
The Intelligence Group, publisher of the popular Cassandra Report, the industry’s foremost comprehensive lifestyle study of 14-34-year-old mainstream consumers and trendsetters, has published its third annual Latino Intelligence Report. The lifestyle study focuses on the Hispanic youth market and provides a critical forecasting tool for marketers looking to understand the 14-34-year-old Latino consumer.
Rapidly increasing amounts of debt, high job losses, skyrocketing gas and food prices, and a tidal wave of foreclosures are driving many American families to the edge of financial ruin. Although all U.S. households are hurt in the economic slowdown, Hispanic and African-American households are more vulnerable; they are likely to suffer first and to suffer more.
As I’ve said before, I don’t watch a lot of TV. Call me old fashioned, but I’m a newspaper and magazine junkie. Oh yeah, I do love reading the Wall Street Journal and the NY Post ONLINE. But I’d like to think that I know great TV when it pops up the tube. Jaime Bayly is the perfect example. CLICK above on El Blog to read.
Recent graduates embarking on their careers may find there are some things college didn’t prepare them for, a new survey suggests. About four in 10 (42 percent) advertising and marketing executives polled by The Creative Group said acclimating to a firm’s corporate culture poses the greatest challenge for professionals starting a new job in the creative field. Learning new business protocols ranked second, with 30 percent of the response.
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The nation’s Hispanic population increased 1.4 million to reach 45.5 million on July 1, 2007, or 15.1 percent of the estimated total U.S. population of 301.6 million.
Despite controversy surrounding hip-hop music, it has become part of mainstream American culture. This newly updated report from Packaged Facts, The Young Urban Consumer Market in the U.S., finds that Young Urban Consumers form a highly influential consumer segment that plays a major part in setting trends and determining fashion.
Watch a school of fish swim. They have no leader. No one is telling them what to do. Instead they are paying close attention to the fish next to them, in order to move at exactly the same time in exactly the same direction. This type of swarm behavior defies convention. Animal groups moving together as one without ever being told what to do. The comparison of swarm behavior to human interaction has become increasingly relevant as human instincts and social technologies have merged to create an unprecedented collective intelligence.
