Media

As teens are changing their media habits, moving away from traditional TV viewing to spending more time with other entertainment formats—namely YouTube, Instagram, and Tumblr—their interest in traditional celebrities has waned.

The expansion will result in viewers receiving an additional 150 minutes of local breaking news coverage and up-to-the-minute weather reports each week in their markets.

Amador Bustos and Jay Meyers, Adelante’s CEO, visited the Seattle and Eastern Washington staff to announce the transfer of its nine radio stations to their former owner; Bustos Media.

Castalia Communications Corporation has signed an agreement with Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (RTVE) to represent the Spanish broadcaster’s channels and programming throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada.

IMAGINA US and Juan Camilo Ferrand jointly announced the launch of THE STORY NEST, a new company that will develop scripted content in Spanish for the U.S. and Latin America.

The project is a move to transform La Opinión into a multimedia brand that will serve the Hispanic community of California through all platforms – from print to mobile – with new and revamped content offerings, an improved look and a greatly enhanced reader experience for this iconic brand.

Spanish-language broadcast network MundoFox announced that it is now available to Time Warner Cable digital subscribers in the New York metro area.

Tiesto, Skrillex, Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Afrojack and Avicii are not household names to anyone 35 years old and over. Skrillex and Afrojack may sound like appliance names or an over the counter hair gel to older folks. But to Millennials (generally defined as Americans born between 1982 and sometime in the early 2000′s), these Electronic Dance Music (EDM) DJs are celebrities producing music that is defining and giving an identity to their generation.

The digital marketing world has been abuzz for months about Facebook’s dialing-down of organic brand content in the average user’s newsfeed—and the declining importance of the “like” or page follow in its wake.

Comcast and Univision Communications Inc. announced they have reached a long-term agreement for Comcast to distribute Univision Deportes Network (UDN) to XFINITY TV customers who subscribe to its Digital Preferred or XFINITY Latino levels of service.

Telemundo announced multiplatform sponsorship initiatives with Toyota, Revlon and T-Mobile that will be part of its new reality competition series, “Yo Soy El Artista.” Hosted by international star Lucero, the revolutionary program will debut on Sunday, September 14 at 8PM/7C.

Expectations where high and discussions among colleagues were all about predicting if Telemundo and Latin We’s social media experiment #YoSoyElInfluencer Summit combined with the new reality show “Yo Soy el Artista” would become a brilliant idea with a flawless execution or a total disaster. The task was not an easy one, and I was told it was in the making for an entire year.  By Lynn Ponder / WebCityGirls

YouTube is booming. A recent analysis from Jefferies valued the company at up to $40 billion—more than Twitter. And marketers have taken note, using the platform to share content as digital video continues to rise in popularity.

Cowboy Mining follows the crew at Globexplore Drilling as they drill thousands of feet below the earth’s surface to hit apple-sized targets delivering valuable mineral samples of gold, silver, copper and other high-value minerals so that the next “world-class” discovery can be made.

From a purely observational context, it strikes me that we’re at an interesting cross-roads in generational marketing. So much of what our sports fan and participant research focused on during the first decade of this century was meeting the needs of a maturing Boomer generation that did not always follow the leads of prior generations reaching a similar life stage. Fast-forward to the present day and it seems that everyone is trying to unlock the secret sauce that resonates with Millennials. And on the surface level this makes sense.

Erik Morales, Mexican boxing legend and eight-time champion, joins FOX Deportes as a boxing analyst it was announced by Carlos Sanchez, Executive Vice President and General Manager, FOX Deportes.    

We all live increasingly on our smartphones. In the U.S.—where 171.5 million people (71%) own such a device—smartphones have become the staple of everyday life and the on-the-go tool of choice for consumers looking to catch up on emails, tap their social networks or even tweet about a recent sports game.

The latest Nielsen Audio Today Report  profiles the impact of Network Radio among Hispanics, and the nearly 30 million listeners that are reached by Network Radio each week in hundreds of markets around the country.

Social networking is a majority activity in the US: eMarketer expects 54.3% of the population, or 68.5% of internet users, to log on to a social site at least once per month in 2014.

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced the official sponsors for its highly anticipated singing reality competition, “Va Por Ti” (This One’s For You) , a co-production of Televisa and Univision.