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Fuse Media, a cross-platform entertainment media brand for Latino and multicultural millennial and GenZ audiences, announced that it will emerge from Chapter 11 on schedule and as a materially stronger company.

A small but steady number of American workers have more than one job, because either they need extra income or they want to gain more experience or explore different interests.

Mood, needs state and situation are key indicators of ad receptivity (willingness to see an ad before exposure to it) and ad attention (the active behavior of noticing an ad) for both digital video and digital audio consumers, according to “Ad Receptivity, Deconstructed,” a new media trial study by MAGNA and IPG Media Lab in conjunction with Pandora Media, LLC, a subsidiary of SiriusXM.

After presenting at the Effies Summit in Colombia the other week, I sat in on a presentation by Santiago Pachano, Commercial Director at Google Argentina. He laid out a compelling case for why marketers should invest more in performance marketing. In my opinion there was just one small problem with his argument: it was a recipe for killing a brand’s future revenues.  by Nigel Hollis

The average city dweller today sees up to 5,000 ads per day. With people constantly inundated by ads, only a few messages can be expected to reach a consumer and sustain attention long enough to have an impact. Do consumers remember five — or even two — ads that crossed their field of vision during their morning commute? To set themselves apart, advertisers continuously look for ways to break through while publishers work to fill up blank spaces with sellable inventory. But people are increasingly escaping from the unwanted chatter and stimuli in their surroundings.

Comcast Advertising announced the launch of a new initiative called On Addressability. The broad goal of this initiative is to help the industry deliver a sound, scalable and sustainable addressable solution to marketers that maximizes the impact and value of television as a marketing platform.

Even with all the tools and analytics most marketers now have at their fingertips, measuring brand affinity will always be an imperfect science because marketers really only get a complete understanding of a consumer’s mind at the point of sale.

​Disruption is driving economic growth and opportunity—and unsettling younger workers. Deloitte’s 2019 survey shows millennials and Gen Zs are increasingly pessimistic and mistrustful of both their careers and the world around them.

As the share of Americans who say they own a smartphone has increased dramatically over the past decade – from 35% in 2011 to 81% in 2019 – a new Pew Research Center survey finds that the way many people choose to go online is markedly different than in previous years.

Accenture launched Marketing Disrupted, a seven-episode podcast series focusing on key themes and challenges that chief marketing officers (CMOs) face in this age of digital disruption.
Through interviews with forward-thinking CMOs and other leaders, the series highlights the explosive pace of technology and its impact on the challenges of today’s CMO.

By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc – MMiami.com

“It’s Colombia, not Columbia.”

I’ve noticed that some politicians who have thrown their hat in the presidential primary race as of late suffer from one of the oldest problems in the marketing playbook: a lack of brand name recognition.

The first national network of independent, inclusive public relations and marketing firms launches today aiming to change the way the industry communicates to, for and with multicultural and LGBTQ communities.

A couple of weeks ago I came across an article titled “The Death Of Brand Loyalty”. The author argues that because of a generational shift the concept of loyalty has lost relevance and nowadays it’s all about constant change. But is that really true?  by Dr Susanne O’Gorman – Insights Division / Kantar – Global Head of Customer Experience

Assume the people you consider to be the most loyal customers on the planet are, in fact, disloyal. Because 92% of the time, you’ll be right. New Nielsen findings demonstrate that just 8% of consumers consider themselves to be firmly committed loyalists.

The past decade has seen rapid transformation in the role and purview of the chief marketing officer. Several dynamics have triggered this shift, including mounting-yet-fluid expectations from the CEO and the digitization of everything, which demands brands now provide a seemingly 24/7 omnipresence. In short: a tough job has gotten tougher.

Chief Marketing Officers are suffering from an intense case of FOMO – the Fear of Missed Opportunities – as customers seek more localized, personalized experiences that are relevant to their own cultural context and situation. There is ample reason to understand the anxiety: Only 10 percent of brand leaders are feeling exceedingly confident they will be able to reach their customer engagement and revenue goals.

The World Federation of Advertiser’s Global Media Charter lays out eight “principles for partnership in the digital media advertising ecosystem.” The list is a solid articulation of the top problems online advertisers face today.

The number of Mexican unauthorized immigrants in the United States declined so sharply over the past decade that they no longer are the majority of those living in the country illegally, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on government data. In 2017, there were 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S., including 4.9 million Mexicans.

A new poll released this week by Marketplace® and Edison Research indicates fewer Americans describe themselves as anxious about their financial situation than they have in the past four years. And while fewer people are losing sleep over concerns about their personal financial situation, the Economic Anxiety Index® score for Democrats and Independents remained relatively unchanged since 2018, but it is dramatically lower among Republicans.