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We will be back on Tuesday May 28, 2013

This past week, we spent considerable time at the Hispanicize event in Miami Beach. The Hispanicize team needs to be commended for their ability to bring together Hispanic female bloggers from their owned and operated blogger network Latina Mom Bloggers.  The ladies were flown in and put up for a couple of days in fabulous Miami Beach for an all expenses paid soiree to create and demonstrate critical mass to entice advertisers.

A record seven-in-ten (69%) Hispanic high school graduates in the class of 2012 enrolled in college that fall, two percentage points higher than the rate (67%) among their white counterparts,1 according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The report from the Census Bureau on the diversifying American electorate in 2012 confirms an historic turnout milestone first noted last December by the Pew Research Center, but undercuts a number of other widely-reported demographic analyses of last year’s presidential vote.

About two in three eligible blacks (66.2 percent) voted in the 2012 presidential election, higher than the 64.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites who did so, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released today. This marks the first time that blacks have voted at a higher rate than whites since the Census Bureau started publishing statistics on voting by the eligible citizen population in 1996.

While students around the country were studying for finals, students from the Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication (HMC) at Florida State University (FSU) were on an eight-hour drive from Tallahassee to Miami to attend this year’s AHAA Thinking Under the Influence conference.

Manuel Delgado – CEO of AGUA Simply put, the American Dream is the only reason why Hispanics are here. The pilgrims came to America as religious refugees, looking for a better place to make their lives. Hispanic immigrants come here as economic refugees, looking for a better place to make a living. We’re here because we can work here. There are as many journeys to the US as there are Hispanics.

Tom Maney – EVP Ad Sales, Fox Hispanic Media was honored by his peers in receiving the 2013 HispanicAd.com ‘Media Executive of the Year’ award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA) annual conference in Miami, FL on Monday April 29, 2013.

Manuel E. Machado – CEO/Co-Chairman of MGSCOMM was honored by his peers in receiving the 2013 HispanicAd.com ‘Advertising Agency Executive of the Year’ award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA) annual conference in Miami, FL on Monday April 29, 2013.

Elena Figueroa – SVP, Communications Planning Director at Starcom MediaVest Group was honored by her peers in receiving the “HispanicAd.com 2013 HispanicAd.com ‘Media Planning Executive of the Year’ award at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA) annual conference in Miami, FL on Monday April 29, 2013.

Winners of the HispanicAd.com 2013 Account Planning Excelencia (HAPE) awards were announced at a luncheon during Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA) annual conference in Miami, FL on Monday April 29, 2013.

HispanicAd.com announced the winners of the 2013 Excelencia Media Planning Awards (HMPE) at a luncheon during Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA) annual conference in Miami, FL on Monday April 29, 2013.

HispanicAd.com and AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing are proud to announce the Judges for the HispanicAd.com 2013 Hispanic Account Planning Awards competition. The awards will be bestowed at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agency (AHAA) Annual Conference in Miami, FL in April 2013.

HispanicAd.com and AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing are proud to announce the Judges for the HispanicAd.com 2013 Media Planning Awards competition. The awards will be bestowed at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agency (AHAA) Annual Conference in Miami, FL in April 2013.

Florida State University’s Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication is celebrating the first anniversary of its undergraduate and graduate Multicultural Marketing Communication Certificates.