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2018 has been an eventful year for Hispanic grocery stores. We saw Bodega Latina expand to Texas with an acquisition of Fiesta Mart, Winn-Dixie’s Fresco Y Más concept grew in Florida, and Albertson’s El Rancho Supermercado officially entered the Houston market.

To really understand the attitudinal power of brands we need to look beyond the absolute scores and instead examine relative strengths and weaknesses. If more people say good things about a brand than claim to use it then that difference represents an opportunity to grow, provided that association has a positive relationship with business outcomes.  by Nigel Hollis

If marketers understand the need for a balanced approach to understanding performance, why do they still focus on short-term sales as the primary indicator of campaign success?

Entravision Communications Corporation announced an extension to their two agreements with Al & CM Broadcasting LLC. Entravision will represent on a network basis and air Alex “El Genio” Lucas through 2020.

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. with its television network, MegaTV announced the return to radio, television and digital platforms of the famous producer and ventriloquist, Antulio “Kobbo” Santarrosa. The agreement between Santarrosa and SBS was made on December 19, 2018, in the United States and will be effective as of January 2019.

We all see the headlines. “Cord cutting” is accelerating. Viewers may soon do away with TV as we know it. As Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming services gain traction, it may seem that traditional pay TV services — cable and satellite — are heading for the exits.  But, headlines can be misleading — in a big way.  By Sarah Liddle / GFK

In its definitive CMO tenure report, Winmo finds that female CMOs, which make up about 42 percent of tenures across industries, rotate up and out of roles five months sooner than their male counterparts (37.5 months vs. 43 months).

Every radio station owner, GSM or sales associate is always on the lookout for a great new way to bring in the dollars.  By Adam Jacobson

Kids continue to be an anomaly of the digital era. While few have smartphones or inhabit the social networks that preoccupy teens and adults, their sheer amount of screen time nonetheless manages to feel like a national crisis.

NGL Collective was recently recognized as one of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America” by Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur360 List, a premier study delivering the most comprehensive analysis of private companies in America.

Primo TV (Vme Media Inc.) announces the upcoming premiere of the Matt Hatter Chronicles movie “Rise of Primal”. The legendary Primal, first and mightiest of the Coronet Super Villains, has risen again and it’s up to Matt Hatter to stop him! The movie will make its U.S. premiere on December 25th, 4PM EST / 1PM PST.

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Entravision Communications Corporation announced that Entravision Solutions, the Company’s national sales and marketing organization, has extended its relationship with MLC Media through 2021.

In the latest episode of “Behind the Numbers,” analyst Lauren Fisher discusses the ways that programmatic is being used for audio, out-of-home and TV ad buys. What’s driving the changes, and what stands in the way of faster growth?

WAPA Television celebrated its many achievements and revealed an exciting new year of programming at a glamorous 2019 upfront presentation on Thursday, December 13, 2018, where network executives, accompanied by on-air talent, announced new reality show formats, original programming, digital shows, and expanded sports offerings.  

Once again, it’s that time of year to look back and also forward.  I have always held myself publicly accountable on this forum at year’s end. Initially I did this by looking at the data that my writing delivered: likes, shares, volume of comments, etc.  Then we got wiser and learned that those metrics are perhaps not really good indicators of performance (and if you still use these, get smart!). So I switched to predicting the future. Let’s see how we did, for 2018, shall we? Consider it my end-of-year performance review.  by Maarten Albarda

Brand choice is driven by primarily by emotion and feeling. People don’t make brand choices based on logical, persuasive marketing arguments (as many in our industry still like to believe), rather the more you feel for a brand, the more likely you are to buy it. But is this equally true for all product categories?  by Nigel Hollis

By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc / LMMiami.com

• The Trump admin wants to use the upcoming census to identify undocumented immigrants.
• A gross breach of privacy you might say.
• Well, the US has a strong judiciary that has stopped the overreaching instincts of the other two branches of government several times already.
• And vice versa.

Choice has always been coveted among consumers. When it comes to the media universe, the abundance in devices, services and content has never been more prevalent, which in turn is opening up a complex web of consumption behaviors. With all of this technology at consumers’ literal fingertips, which of these platforms are they focused on?

According to this study, 67 percent of U.S. respondents have used live chat, social media, or texting for customer service. Among Gen Z and Millennials, 46 percent and 47 percent respectively have used social media to communicate with customer service in the past year — compared to only 7 percent of Baby Boomers and 26 percent of Gen X. More than a third (36 percent) of Gen Z consumers prefer social media for simple inquiries compared to only 5 percent of Baby Boomers.