Marketing
Beyond Hispanic Heritage Month: How Brands Can Support Year-Round Cultural Celebrations
As we enter the second full week of Hispanic Heritage Month, it’s encouraging to see so many in our industry publishing thoughtful opinion pieces on the occasion. The discourse has been rich and diverse, but one message stands out: Brands must engage with Hispanic consumers year-round, not just during Hispanic Heritage Month. By Louis Maldonado
Drip Across America
The Drip is in the Details, NFL Shop is looking to highlight “main character energy” - the energy we all get when we wear clothes that makes us feel like we’re bringing our best. The campaign does this by diving further into the details of not only the style, but the fans sporting the merch!
Moving Beyond Acculturation: How Marketers Are Embracing Cultural Fluidity in Hispanic Audiences
For decades, marketers relied heavily on acculturation models to understand and target the U.S. Hispanic population. The model grouped Hispanics into categories like unacculturated, bicultural, or fully acculturated, based on their assimilation into American culture. This framework has been a long-standing tool to segment the Hispanic audience and tailor marketing messages. However, in today’s world, this approach is rapidly losing its relevance. By Maria Lucia Parra - Bicultural Hispanic marketing/UX researcher with extensive experience in identifying the right approaches to meet clients’ objectives as “one size does not fit all”.
How to Tell a Story That Matters
If you look at any great story, there are elements they all have: a main character, a want or need, a plot, tools the character uses, and most importantly, conflict. Conflict is the engine that drives every story, and the best storytellers not only have compelling conflict but highlight the conflict. The conflict can be internal or external, but it's the most important element in every story. From Darth Vader to the Joker, every great story has that agent of conflict.
Show me the “Money/Dinero” – – The Hispanic Sports Fan – Young, Engaged, Invested and Female
We all know that sports is a big business, and the leadership at L’Attitude has embraced the growth that comes with sports as a business imperative- so satisfy that need this year’s conference launched its inaugural AVANCE Sports track (Association For The Advancement Of Latino Sports) with athletes, owners and marketers to share the importance of “not just welcoming the community but celebrating and uplifting them”. Every Sport was well represented by athletes or owners of MBL, NFL, NHL, NBA, ESPN with mainstage reserved for Diana Flores, NFL Flag Football Ambassador and Karl-Anthony Towns, NBA All Star Minnesota Timberwolves. By Ana Ceppi
Eighty percent of brands have concerns about agency use of GenAI
Nearly two-thirds of brand owners (63%) are already using generative AI in their marketing strategies, according to new research from the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) but many have serious concerns about the technology.
Happy HHM (or not so happy?)
I don’t know about you, but Hispanic Heritage Month is just kicking off this weekend, and I’m already overdosing on all the social media posts and shallow brand celebrations. As far as I’m concerned it feels quite token for brands to opportunistically “show up” during Hispanic Heritage Month! I’m sure this feeling is shared by my African American and Asian American friends when Black History Month or Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month come around, as well as my friends in the LGBTQ+ community when all the Pride brand activations and campaigns pop up out of nowhere. By Luis Miguel Messianu. - Founder-President-Chief Creative Officer MEL
Code-Switching in Marketing: Navigating Language & Culture to Connect with Diverse Audiences
In an increasingly multicultural world, code-switching has emerged as a powerful concept, not only in communication but also in marketing. Traditionally, code-switching refers to the practice of alternating between two or more languages or dialects within a conversation, often to adapt to different cultural contexts or social situations. In marketing, code-switching goes beyond just language—it involves navigating cultural nuances, values, and identity to connect with diverse audiences authentically. By Sylvia Vidal - Senior VP of Insights | Expert in Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and U.S. Hispanic Research | Advocate for Inclusive Insights |Specialist in Latin American & Caribbean Markets | Qualitative & Quantitative Specialist
Latinx Awareness Has Doubled Among U.S. Hispanics Since 2019, but Only 4% Use It [REPORT]
In the long-running debates about which terms to use to describe the U.S. population with roots in Latin America and Spain, “Latinx” has emerged as a gender-neutral alternative to Hispanic and Latino, the two most popular pan-ethnic terms used today.
Median Income of Non-Hispanic White Households Increased While Asian, Black and Hispanic Median Household Income Did Not Change
The report, Income in the United States: 2023, compares median household income by different characteristics, including race and Hispanic origin, and shows that not all groups had an increase in median household incomes from 2022 to 2023.
Celebrating the Centennial of a Giant
A very special moment happened over the weekend; one that only happens every 100 years, if one should be so lucky. Members of our Hispanic marketing and advertising industry convened to celebrate the 100th birthday of Roberto Madan. Don Roberto, as he is respectfully and affectionally called, was one of the McDonald’s early Latino owner/operators who was known for his dedication to uplifting and building communities by actively supporting entrepreneurship, the pursuit of education and other important causes.
Latinos in Sports: Powerhouse Fans [REPORT]
Sports organizations are constantly searching for innovative ways to expand their fanbases and stay ahead of the competition. The answer may lie in the rapidly growing and passionate Latino sports fan demographic.
2024 Hispanic Content Report – Available for download for FREE
HispanicAd offers its annual report on key Content, Data & Social usage strategies, along with the importance of using Data strategies to engage the US Hispanic Consumer.
¡LISTO! Baseball’s ‘COPA DE LA DIVERSIÓN’ comes to ESTRELLATV and the ESTRELLATV APP
Estrella MediaCo, in cooperation with Bally’s Interactive, and Minor League Baseball (MiLB), is bringing the professional AAA baseball series “Copa de la Diversión™" or "Fun Cup™" to the EstrellaTV app, the free Spanish language streaming app and EstrellaTV.
Inclusion is the future for brand growth
Keen to avoid the gaze of the manufactured outrage machine, marketers have been timid about investing in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the past year. Kantar’s research, and that of our partners, however, indicates brand inclusion and fairness inside and outside businesses are the keys to brand growth. There is a strategic imperative to put inclusion back at the core of their brands.
SeeHer in Sports
This year’s Olympics was a pivotal moment in history with female athletes seizing the spotlight like never before. The Paris Games were the first to have gender parity, with equal numbers of women and men competing. However, parity doesn’t mean equality. Women still lag behind men in most areas of sports, including sponsorship deals, media exposure, pay and roles such as coaches, referees, commentators, and executive leadership.
No Messi, No Problem: How Leagues Cup 2024 Thrived on Social Media Without the GOAT
This North American soccer post is not about the GOAT but rather his absence. It’s about how an analytics-based, strategy-first, fine organic content-focused social media project was able to exponentially grow all Leagues Cup platforms in the last 30 days, despite facing the biggest challenge a brand-new sports property can encounter — missing its franchise star. And we’re talking about one of the biggest superstars of all time. By Marcos Peres - Social Media, Digital Content, Livestream & Communications Consultant | Leagues Cup Social Media Project Leader
What the data says about immigrants in the U.S. [US Hispanic Markets HOTBED for 2022 immigrantion]
In 2022, more than 29 million immigrants – 63% of the nation’s foreign-born population – lived in just 20 major metropolitan areas. The largest populations were in the New York, Los Angeles and Miami metro areas. Most of the nation’s unauthorized immigrant population (60%) lived in these metro areas as well.
The Re-Birth of the Spanish Dominant Hispanic Consumer in The US
Interesting title, since we are being challenges every year by sources that state that the Spanish Dominant Hispanic Consumer is not growing, and that mainstream and digital media are imposing attrition to our US Hispanic Spanish Dominant media that serve the US Hispanic Consumer. I have yet to hear our media companies, our ad agencies and other sources bringing forth the notion of what has happened in the last four years to the growth of the US Hispanic Market due to recent immigration patterns. In 2010 there were 50.2 Million Hispanic in the US. In on decade, the 2020 Census detailed the that US Hispanic population grew by 11.9 Million or + 24%. In just four years since the 2020 Census, the possibility that the US Hispanic Consumer base grew by 10-12 Million is in the realm of possibility or by a 19%, due to recent immigrant growth. I am not here to discuss the political issue surrounding the influx of immigrants into the US, but I am here to highlight:
- Our Hispanic Consumer base could have a growth of +15-20 Million in 4 years and projected out to average growth over 10 years in the 2030 Census could reach +30% or 80-85 Million US Hispanic Consumers. That’s clout.
- Close to 100% of the US Hispanic Consumer Base growth is Spanish Dominant Hispanics in the last 4 years.
- Hispanic TV, Radio and other media are going to enjoy a real bonanza of new viewers, listeners and readers
- With this growth, the hierarchy of US Hispanic Market and their relationship to mainstream markets will be impacted dramatically, since a good portions of this new immigrant consumers group is congregating in the largest US Hispanic Markets in the US.
- The Hispanic composition of our top markets will grow. LA, NY, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, etc have become much larger and important markets, due to US Hispanic Consumers.
- The Hispanic composition of markets besides the Top 5 will grow and change not only the US Hispanic Market ranking but re-organize mainstream markets into a new ranking order.
- The US Hispanic Market is leading the growth opportunity in the US.
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