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Programmatic is no longer just a buzzword. It’s a growing groundswell within the ad realm that shows no signs of slowing. In fact, eMarketer estimated that programmatic would make up 25% of the $58.6 billion in digital advertising spent in 2015. But while it’s clear that the automatic buying and selling of digital ads is poised to make an even bigger impact in 2016, many in the industry are still grappling with one big question: How do I measure it?

The large footprint of Latino millennial eligible voters reflects the oversized importance of youth in the U.S.-born Latino population and as a source of Latino eligible voter growth.

While there is an over-abundance of consumer data and analytics, marketers have yet to master what meteorologists and economists do best: funnel this multiplicity of data into actionable insights to reliably anticipate and predict what’s ahead and then prepare for it.

Agency executives—more so than senior marketers—plan to increase spending on a variety of different formats in 2016, including digital, social and mobile.

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Telemundo News announce a new partnership that will kick off with a daylong conference “The Latino Vote: Myth vs. Reality,” scheduled to take place in New York City on Friday, January 29 beginning at 9 a.m.

Liberty Tax recently named business leader and international speaker and author Laura Contreras Rowe to lead growth efforts in the Hispanic market as Chief Operating Officer of its SiempreTax+ brand.

Dieste Inc. has named agency executive creative director Ciro Sarmiento its new Chief Creative Officer, effective February 1st.

Multidisciplinary brand culture and communications firm (add)ventures is expanding its Miami office with the addition of Camila Moller as director of strategy/marketing and  Michelle Spriegel as specialist of pr/social media.

Wonderful Pistachios announced that TV personality, certified master life coach and bicultural motivational speaker Laura Posada will serve as the brand’s Latina ambassador to promote the health attributes of pistachios and the importance of healthy snacking habits among Hispanics.

UniMás is set to premiere the series “Lady, La Vendedora de Rosas” (Lady, The Rose Seller), a powerful, bittersweet story based on the real life of Colombian child-star Lady María Tabares.

Telemundo announced that its local Telemundo-owned stations will hold local voter registration drives this year across the United States to help raise awareness about the importance of civic participation and help increase the number of Hispanics who register to vote.

Midwest Television/San Diego — which owns and operates News/Talker760 KFMB-AM, 100.7 KFMB-FM and local CBS Television affiliate KFMB-TV8— has named Alberto  Mier y Terán President/GM of the stations.

Latino Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) announced that radio personality, Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo, will be on air with his radio program “El Show de Piolin,” on 104.5FM “La Mejor.” KTBZ HD2

Arthur R. Rockwell, a veteran of the out-of-home media and multicultural marketing industries, has been appointed to lead Roots Media, Inc.

Many organizations have been concerned lately with the implications of the increased and prolonged use of multiple screens by young and also older people.  The Kaiser family foundation, Ipsos, The Pew Research Center, and others have conducted studies in which they have found that the access to smartphones in particular has increased dramatically.  Also, that infants use tablets and smartphones even when watching television.  Many report fatigue and other strain related issues.  And as we know some run into walls and have accidents when driving, biking, etc. while texting or doing some other activity on their mobile devices.  By Felipe Korzenny, Ph.D.

Not only did more than eight in 10 internet users ages 18 to 29 have a Facebook account, based on polling by Harvard University Institute of Politics and GfK, but it was also the only site studied where Republicans and independents were both more-represented than Democrats.

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) and Onion Inc., a digital media company with comedy brands that include The Onion, announced that UCI’s digital-arm is a minority investor in Onion Inc.

Telemundo 40 Rio Grande Valley / KTLM announced that Joeseph Martinez has been named Weather Anchor for Noticias Telemundo 40 fin de semana.

Lionfish Entertainment, a joint venture between Colombian Rock superstar Juanes and his manager Rebeca Leon, have teamed with Television Producing Mogul Ben Silverman to adapt Juanes’ inspirational life story and rise to international fame in their new television show “PERSIGUIENDO EL SOL”  (Chasing The Sun).

The Board of Directors of Caribevision, composed of its three owner partners, Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga/Grupo Pegaso, Mediaset/Telecinco Spain and vassal TV Group, has appointed Mr. Carlos Vasallo as President and CEO of America CV Network.