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Sun Broadcast Group, Inc. announced the appointment of Julio Aponte to Director of Hispanic Sales. Aponte will oversee sales & marketing efforts for all of Sun’s Hispanic products including the recently signed “El Mandril Morning Show”.

The Great Recession put a wide swath of US consumers on the money-saving path, and digital tools helped make bargain hunting all the easier. These are lessons consumers will not soon unlearn, according to a new eMarketer report, “Cheapskates Online: How the ‘New Normal’ Takes Advantage of New Technology.”

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.

In a joint partnership with comScore, BabyCenter has revealed new insights surrounding moms’ adoption and usage of social platforms across all devices. Today, moms are 20% more likely to use social media than the general population. Ninety-one percent of moms now use social media regularly – a 20% increase since 2010. And they expect their friends and family to use it too. In fact, 22% of moms say that if friends or family don’t participate in social media, they are not as much a part of their lives.

Telemundo Media announced an official partnership with The Weather Company (Weather), also part of the NBCUniversal family.

Experimenting with various mobile advertising tactics has helped CPG marketers stand out among other industries. As consistent spenders in the mobile advertising space, Millennial Media reported that from 2011 to 2012, the consumer goods vertical grew 235% on its platform. In addition, a study by comScore and Millennial Media found that the vertical’s primary goal of driving brand awareness is a core reason for expanded reliance on the mobile platform.

As the showcase for its Upfront presentation, top US Hispanic broadcast network Estrella TV will host an intimate partner dinner event to be held Monday, May 13 on the mezzanine of Tao Restaurant.

by Jose Villa / Sensis Whenever someone first gets involved in Hispanic marketing, they inevitably come across a series of universally accepted “truths” about Hispanic consumers and how to market to them. While some of these truths have faded as the market has evolved over the last 50 years, some continue unchallenged. But as anyone who is deeply involved in marketing to Hispanics today will tell you the market has evolved as quickly as it’s grown. Today’s modern Hispanic marketer understands everything we think we know about Hispanics has to be questioned

Entravision COO Jeff Liberman has been in radio for almost his entire adult life. There’s no question he’s an expert on radio and especially on the topic of the Hispanic consumer. In 2012 Liberman advanced from President of the Radio Division at Entravision to COO of the company. The story of how his family entered the radio business is fascinating. Liberman calls himself a “radio brat” and while working for his family he learned how to do every job that needed to be done at a station, from answering the phones to filling out affidavits to selling time. Liberman sharpened all the many tools of the radio trade that put him on the path to becoming one of the 40 Most Powerful People in Radio. Today, Entravision operates one of the nation’s largest groups of Spanish-language radio stations. Liberman, tells Radio Ink even with the growth of media targeting the exploding Hispanic population in the United States, that audience is still underserved. Courtesy of RadioINK.

mun2 aired live red carpet coverage from the 2013 Premios Billboard on Thursday April 25 from 6-7 p.m. EST. The one-hour program was hosted by mun2’s Guad Venegas and Telemundo’s KVEA host Elva Saray, with red carpet and backstage interviews and fashion coverage from mun2 hosts La Bronca, Crash and Emeraude Toubia.