ImpreMedia to provide Spanish translation & live streaming of the Presidential Candidate Dialogue

ImpreMedia has been selected as the official Spanish-language communicator for the ongoing series of Presidential Dialogue events hosted by MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, and MTV, the leading global youth brand. ImpreMedia’s Hispanic youth-oriented, entertainment magazine and website, LaVibra.com, will stream the live, candid conversations between each leading presidential candidate and America’s Spanish-speaking youth.

The second in the groundbreaking series of Presidential Dialogues will feature Sen. Barack Obama, on Monday, Oct. 29, at 1:30 pm ET/10:30 am PT and will be streamed in English on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/election2008) and MTV’s Choose or Lose (http://www.chooseorlose.com). The live Spanish translation will be available on ImpreMedia’s online channel, LaVibra.com, which targets urban U.S. Hispanics between the ages of 18 – 34. Archived, translated video the first Presidential Candidate Dialogue with former Senator John Edwards, can be found on LaVibra.com.

“ImpreMedia Digital is using the Internet in a unique way to inform and educate our readers, and U.S. Hispanics alike, in the political process of the country in which they live, work and progress,” said Arturo Duran, CEO of ImpreMedia Digital, LLC.

The dialogue with Sen. Obama will take place on the campus of Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA. MTV News Correspondents Gideon Yago and Sway Calloway, as well as WashingtonPost.com political reporter Chris Cillizza, will serve as moderators. Industry-leading pollsters John McLaughlin and Geoffrey Garin will return to oversee the real-time polling data and questions submitted via MySpaceIM and Think.MTV.com. The event will feature an audience comprised entirely of the university’s students, who will have the opportunity to question the Senator on issues that concern them most.

The Presidential Dialogue series marks the first time in history where at home viewers will be able to submit questions in real-time to the candidates. As the world’s fastest growing instant messaging client, MySpaceIM will provide the platform for users to submit questions throughout the duration of the event on MySpace, Choose or Lose and in Spanish on LaVibra.com. Each event is an hour in length and held on college campuses nationwide. The Presidential Dialogue series will feature frontrunner candidates from both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Online viewers can watch the archived Dialogues in Spanish on Lavibra.com. Impremedia’s properties nation-wide, including its most recognizable brands, La Opinión Newspaper in Los Angeles, the largest Spanish-language daily news and information publication in the U.S.; and El Diario La Prensa in New York, the country’s oldest Spanish-language daily, will publicize the dialogues to readers through in-paper and online advertising.