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GroupM released a new report, “State of Digital,” offering intelligence on consumer media consumption and advertising investment trends worldwide. Among a series of publications by GroupM prognosticating media marketplace futures the world over, the new report focuses on the impact of technology and digital capabilities on consumers and advertisers.

Total media ad spending worldwide will rise 7.4% to $628.63 billion in 2018, according to eMarketer’s latest report, “Global Ad Spending: The eMarketer Forecast for 2018.”

Republica announced the promotions of Michael DeJesus and Federico Giraldo to creative directors. In their expanded roles, DeJesus and Giraldo will report to Chief Creative Officer (CCO) Milton Lebron and help lead the agency’s award-winning creative team.

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

• Protestantism began because the Catholic Church was selling indulgences: documents that exculpated the dead and the alive from spending time in hell or purgatory.
• Yup, the Holy Church literally was, and possibly still is, a “salvation retailer”.
• In the 1500s some mid-level religious staff mostly in Northern Europe “protested” this questionable practice.
• Politics kicked in.

For veterans of Hispanic broadcast media with ties to Puerto Rico, the name Billy Fourquet is synonymous with radio stations owned by Spanish Broadcasting System.  By Adam Jacobson

Telemundo Station Group, part of the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal, announced that Luis Roldan and Roberto Vizcon, two seasoned broadcast professionals will lead WTMO Telemundo.

Azteca America announced the premiere of “Todo un Show”, an innovative magazine program hosted by Laura G, AnetteCuburu, and Roger González, beginning Monday, May 7 at 3 pm/ 2 C.

Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 75% interest in Snap Global, LLC (“Snap TV”), an independent distributor of content in Latin America to broadcast, pay TV and OTT platforms.

CNN en Español’s original Docufilm- Pulse-Huellas de la Masacre won a GLAAD award for in Outstanding TV Journalism NewsMagazine in Spanish category. 

Fifty-nine percent of marketers’ digital advertising budgets are currently allocated to digital video, a consistent climb in share since 2016, according to the “Digital Content NewFronts: 2018 Video Ad Spend Study”. Furthering the trend, more than 50 percent of buyers plan to increase digital and mobile video spending in the next 12 months, with the additional spend primarily coming from expanding budgets.

Have you ever set out to add complexity to a problem or project?  Probably not.  In the history of business, the typical goal is to simplify, focus in, and define problems and solutions to be grasped and broken down into digestible pieces so teams can move forward without becoming paralyzed by the enormity of the task.  

Millennials’ behavior is among the most scrutinized, but don’t be too quick to stereotype this generation.

In the latest edition of the Hispanic Radio Podcast from Streamline Publishing’s Radio + Television Business Report and Radio Ink, Isaac Mizrahi, co-president and COO of Miami-based multicultural advertising agency Alma, discusses the important role both Spanish-language radio and English-language radio targeted to Hispanics has for the marketers and advertisers he works with on a daily basis.

Twentieth Century Fox is having an open casting call in Orlando for the lead roles in “West Side Story,” a new film version of the Broadway musical to be directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg.

Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Laguna Productions, Inc. to acquire exclusive worldwide transmission rights in perpetuity to 25 Mexican and U.S. Hispanic movie titles. Rights to the films include all forms of transmission, including pay-TV, free-TV, VOD, over-the-top, and digital.

Cigna released results from a national survey exploring the impact of loneliness in the United States. The survey, conducted in partnership with market research firm, Ipsos, revealed that most American adults are considered lonely.

TBWA’s cultural insight studio, Backslash, released a report identifying a new modern era of American activism, coined Pan Activism. In a nationwide research study, conducted with strategic brand research consultancy Hall & Partners, it was found that 85 percent of Americans took some form of activism in the past year, such as conversing with those who have differing beliefs or donating to a local business or national tragedy. The findings indicate that modern activism is no longer defined by fringe groups with singular big battles but it is more mass and characterized by small, everyday actions.

Despite a long and relatively steadily improving economy, consumers remain so focused on value that pricing remains retailers’ most pressing business worry.

Here, Duncan Southgate, Global Brand Director, Media, explains why marketers should always look beyond simple, generic rankings when deciding which media channels to use.

For Millennials and most modern consumers, television has been a key part of our daily lives — whether it’s looking forward to relaxing and watching a show after a long day at work or cheering on a favorite sports team during the playoffs. However, the rise of technology has changed the way people consume visual content, making it tough for television to compete with the digital world. Could television really be dying a long, slow death? Here are four reasons why digital media is causing the death of television and why marketers should ditch television for digital media.