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Disclaimer: this is just my personal POV. Off the top of my head. I took some mental notes here and there but this is just what stuck in my mind, which I’m hereby hastily putting together for your perusal. Congrats to Gilbert Dávila and team for once again putting together a marquee of first-rate talent coordinated with clockwork care.  By Gonzalo López Martí – Creative director, etc    /    LMMiami.com

The senior vice president and general manager of CNN en Español and Hispanic strategy for CNN/U.S.,2018 has been recognized with the PromaxIMPACT Award and the 2018 Leading Ladies of Entertainment by The Latin Recording Academy®

Progress on gender diversity at work has stalled. To achieve equality, companies must turn good intentions into concrete action.

It’s been almost two years since Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer of Procter & Gamble, told the digital advertising industry to clean up its act. The e, currently the world’s second largest CPG company, was tired of what he perceived as massive waste in the digital advertising supply chain. He was referring to the lack of transparency between advertisers and digital agencies and the alphabet soup of ad-tech players that created complexity without always clearly defining value.

Alliance for Inclusive & Multicultural Marketing (AIMM) has already begun to transform into a more inclusive, diverse,and proactive platform.  Download the recently released study “Case for Change: Multicultural and Inclusive Marketing” as a Business Imperative for Long-Term Growth to help marketers better understand the importance of prioritizing multicultural and inclusive consumers in order to maximize overall corporate growth.  Discover how to implement AIMM’s five point plan into your company’s overall marketing plan.

The Hispanic population in the U.S. continues to grow, especially among the younger cohorts. Over one-quarter of kids 6-11 are Hispanic, with 24% in the 12- 17 and 18-34 cohorts. Hispanics make up 17.6% of the total 6+ population in the United States.

How do we go about adopting healthy client/agency practices and relations to get budget fit? Once you get there, how do you stay budget fit? Let’s explore best practices to make this a successful, sustainable process.

Companies around the world are becoming more proactive in their sustainability approaches and marketing efforts. It’s not just consumers leading the way to sustainability, but companies are using their influence to lead consumers to sustainability as well.

This paper focuses on the role and effectiveness of premium multi-screen video – the professionally produced content of multi-screen Television and Cinema.

If your company’s employee roster doesn’t reflect the multicultural audience it seeks, does it truly understand that audience, respect it, and want it? That’s the subject of the latest Hispanic Radio Podcast, in which RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson tackles “The Case For Change” — and how it could lead your company to not only change the format of a struggling radio station to one of interest to Latinos, but also lead your company to fully embrace the “new American mainstream.”

Entravision Communications Corporation announced that Mario M. Carrera has decided to step down as Chief Revenue Officer. 

Combate Americas unveiled at a news conference at the Mexican Consulate in Fresno, Calif., a massive winner’s cup trophy, and announced the final four featherweight (145 pounds) contestants for its much-anticipated, “COPA COMBATE,” one-night Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) tournament extravaganza featuring eight fighters, representing eight different countries, battling it out for a $100,000 grand prize

Univision Communications Inc. has appointed Diane Kniowski to the position of president and regional general manager of local media. Effective immediately, she will report directly to Univision CEO Vincent Sadusky, and be based in Miami.

Cinelatino will celebrate Thanksgiving Day with the exclusive U.S. television premiere of the highest-grossing Latino film of 2015, Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos (“Huevos: Little Rooster’s Egg-cellent Adventure”).

Telemundo Deportes, the Spanish-language home for all FIFA events including the 2019 Women’s World Cup France, presents exclusive coverage of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Uruguay 2018, the sixth edition of the biennial international women’s youth soccer championship featuring 16 teams competing for the title.

When I first started work in the U.S., I vividly remember being taken to task by a senior research director at a client company who accused me of using “judgement” in my analysis. This episode highlighted a clash between my belief that data needed to be interpreted to be useful and a widespread belief that the research role was simply to report the data.  by Nigel Hollis

The Culture Marketing Council: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing announced Sarah Carberry, Head of US Multicultural Strategy & Sales, Google; former CMC Chair Alex López Negrete, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lopez Negrete Communications, Inc.; and Eduardo Pérez, Founding Partner, PM3 have joined its Board of Directors.

An extremely efficient way to create effective marketing messages is to segment consumers through targeting the various and distinct cultures. As Kaur & Chawla point out in “Impact of Culture on Marketing”, “Consumers can be attracted [to a product or service] only when product (sic) will fit better according to their customs, traditions, norms, and cultural requirements” (2016).  By Bryce Kelley  – Florida State University

Around the world, sports are a favorite form of entertainment. For some fans, that means tracking every statistic and player nuance across an entire season, while others just enjoy the comradery of cheering on the same athlete or team

Data. Data everywhere.  I’m borrowing from Charles Dickens here, but the vast expanse of data available to us can feel overwhelming at times, and the challenge of interpreting the data can feel a bit like wading through the foggy landscape he once described.  By James Oates, U.K. Client Delivery Lead