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With the departure of Sir Martin Sorrell  — or SMS, as he is lovingly called — many are now predicting the end of WPP and of agency holding companies in general, along with the business model of the tailor-made, client-specific, integrated agency offering.

One of the most common topics to emerge over the past week in relation to the transition underway at WPP is the prospect of a break-up of the company or a major divestiture program. For the most part, we don’t think this speculation makes much sense, and if anything, WPP probably emerges from this process as a net buyer rather than a net seller.

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

• Last week I wrote about the various implications -medical, moral, racial, etc- of creating genetically modified human beings.
• Designer babies.
• Just so you know: it is not a futuristic dystopian what-if scenario.
• It’s happening.
• As we speak.
• All over the developed and not-so-developed world.

Cinelatino is set to launch the fast-paced Mexican medical drama series Paramédicos (“Paramedics”) on Sunday, April 29, at 10pm ET/7pm PT & 11pm ET/8pm PT.

Entravision Communications Corporation announced today an affiliation partnership for Entravision’s KMCC-TV with Azteca America, a U.S.-based, Spanish-language network wholly-owned by HC2 Network Inc., a subsidiary of HC2 Holdings, Inc.

Time is running out on personalized marketing as a means of continually raising the return on investment of campaigns. For the past few years, many marketers have used advanced data analytics to identify the right customers and increase their ROI, but now these practices, while still valuable, are reaching a plateau.

In an increasingly competitive and disjointed brand landscape, where the influence of ‘private label’ and ‘direct’ brands continues to expand, how can established brands best achieve the recognition they need?  by Martin Guerrieria

This week at Hispanicize in Miami, Richard Edelman President & Chief Executive Office  presented “The State of Trust Among Hispanics”.

This year, driven by display ads, mobile will account for 69.9% of all digital advertising. With a 33.9% share of total US ad spend, mobile will pass TV as the leading advertising medium in the world’s largest ad market—and we expect that share will grow to a whopping 47.9% by 2022.

Developing a great strategy starts with changing the dynamics in your strategy room. Here’s how.

Conversations around the best way to target women can certainly be divisive. Several recent brandings aimed at female consumers have received pushback for appearing clumsy and patronising, while others have been deemed mere stunts with little intrinsic value. Marketers need to think more strategically beyond cheap tricks, making things pink, or adding female icons to labels to reach women.

What are Latino jobs? In ALMA’s latest production, they prefer to ask: “What AREN’T they?” HP enlisted ALMA’s multicultural expertise for the Hispanic segment of their “Reinvent Mindsets” campaign for diverse recruitment, titled #LatinoJobs. The film reveals the stereotypes of Latino professions that still exist today and proposes a redefinition of the label.

Our 2018 compilation of research explains what’s helping and what’s hurting the Internet across five issues, from personal experience to global concerns.

Some business leaders, Elon Musk among them, worry that artificial intelligence poses a threat to human existence. How should businesses handle the responsibility of working with AI? In the latest episode of “Behind the Numbers,” we sit down with marketing executive Kyle Psaty of Brand Networks to discuss the challenge.

Artificial intelligence (AI) stands out as a transformational technology of our digital age—and its practical application throughout the economy is growing apace. For this briefing, Notes from the AI frontier: Insights from hundreds of use cases, we mapped both traditional analytics and newer “deep learning” techniques and the problems they can solve to more than 400 specific use cases in companies and organizations. Drawing on McKinsey Global Institute research and the applied experience with AI of McKinsey Analytics, we assess both the practical applications and the economic potential of advanced AI techniques across industries and business functions.

Compared to a year ago, more technology industry leaders globally said the United States is the most promising market for innovation and technology breakthroughs that have global impact, according to KPMG’s 2018 global technology innovation report.

Pasiones will kick off its spring lineup with the premiere of the Italian phenomenon Tierra Indomable (“Untamable Land”) on its Latin American feed on Sunday, April 22, 2018, marking the first Italian production to premiere on the network.

TABASCO® Brand announces, Dale Sabor A Tu Mundo, a new Hispanic-focused marketing campaign that shines a spotlight on TABASCO® Sauce’s versatility and supports the Latino community’s desire to celebrate the fusion of food, culture, and flavor that surrounds the world around them.

Each World Cup match viewership is roughly equivalent to that of the Super Bowl. So from June 14 – July 15, brands have 64 Super Bowl-sized opportunities to reach soccer fans.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises  announced three new hires. Veteran media executive Ronald Day has been appointed to Executive Vice President of Programming for Telemundo Networks, Amanda Calpin has been named Chief Financial Officer for Telemundo Networks and Ignacio Barrera has been named to Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Telemundo Global Studios.