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Median household income and poverty rates continue to vary across the nation’s 3,142 counties. In general, median household income is higher in urban counties than in rural areas. Likewise, poverty rates tend to be lower in urban areas than in rural areas.

Telemundo Deportes presents exclusive coverage of the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2018, featuring some of the world’s best players and club teams, beginning Wednesday, December 12.

In this Hispanic Radio Podcast, RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson chats with Full Power Radio founder John Fuller about how his company has grown thanks to stations offering two distinct two English-language formats and the Latin pop-fueled “Bomba Radio.” What advice does Fuller have? It’s all here in this 15-minute audio report.

Today’s shopping expectations have created new selling opportunities for businesses in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry. “Consumers and businesses now expect every interaction to be shoppable–whether on the web, mobile, social, in-product or in-store,” said Brad Rencher, executive vice president and general manager of Adobe Digital Marketing.

There is huge pressure for marketers to spend more on digital: it is where customers are spending more time, it is what everyone else is doing and the convenience metrics look good. So, it is nice to find an example of a company doing its homework and bucking the trend.  by Nigel Hollis

MundoHispanico.com announced an exclusive partnership with auto expert Al Vázquez to bring the website’s visitors auto reviews and video content to facilitate their buying decisions.

Data. Data everywhere.

In the latest episode of “Behind the Numbers,” analyst Nicole Perrin joins us in the studio to discuss consumer attitudes about advertising and why so many people are resistant to ads. Who are the ad blockers, what are they actively blocking, and what could help turn them around?

The audio boom is real. Everywhere one looks these days it’s easy to see more people than ever before connected to headphones; buying and using smartspeakers; using in-vehicle, voice activated AM/FM and HD radio controls — the list goes on.

In an effort to help shape the next generation of bilingual broadcast and digital journalists and provide them the real work skills they need to succeed in broadcast newsrooms, the Telemundo Station Group announced the launch of its “Telemundo University” training program for journalism students at the University of Florida and University of Texas at Arlington.

Latest MAGNA Report Reveals the Ad Industry is Experiencing its Strongest Growth Since 2010. Ad Sales are Driven by Robust Economic Growth in the US and BRICs, and $6 billion of Cyclical Spend. Digital Ad Sales (+17%) Reach 50% of Total Ad Sales in the US in 2018, and Globally by 2019.

There is no doubt that the plethora of convenience metrics offered by digital media is focusing marketing attention on the here and now, often to the exception of longer-term outcomes. But there is actually no reason why digital media cannot be used for brand-building.  by Nigel Hollis

Two of advertising’s most important titans went head-to-head to debate in-housing and the future of agencies.

Combate Américas announced it is launching the COMBATE WORLD channel on Pluto TV in time for the Fall 2018 season.  The channel launches on December 4th, 2018.

Cinelatino will premiere its original production of the faith based, immigration-themed drama Relatos Guadalupanos (“Guadalupan Tales”) on Sunday, December 9, at 9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT and again on Wednesday, December 12, at 11:00pm ET/8:00pm PT as part of a two day stunt in honor of the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Endemol Shine Boomdog, a division of Endemol Shine North America, has named television showrunner and studio executive Jose Lascurain Farell as its new Vice President of Production

The site will help WWP, a charitable organization that offers a wide variety of programs, services and events for wounded U.S. veterans, to better reach Spanish-speaking veterans, donors and the U.S. Hispanic community at large.

GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, updated its 2018 and 2019 ad investment forecasts. GroupM slightly downgraded 2018 growth expectations from 4.5% to 4.3%. 2019 growth projections are also whittled from 3.9% to 3.6%, with total new investment anticipated to reach $19B instead of the $23B earlier predicted.

The article summarized Google’s annual diversity report, which specified that the company’s employee attrition rates were highest for black and Hispanic employees. Currently, Google’s Hispanic employees make up only 3.6% of the company’s US employees while Latinos represent 18% of the entire US population.  By Jose Pinero

Of the many challenges facing marketers and publishers these days, few are more critical than the need to connect with millennials, a generation now on the verge of two major milestones.