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The Federal Trade Commission’s long-awaited guidance on native advertising came out just before Christmas, a time when everyone is distracted. Meanwhile, publishers and marketers are still mulling it over, considering what it means for them.

Two weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission pulled the IAB over for driving the industry under the influence of self-delusion.  It turns out running ads that “assimilate into the design” — so much so that “the viewer feels that they belong” — is exactly what not to do.  

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, Comcast, MSNBC and NBC News announced that they will be the Presenting Media Partners for the upcoming 7th annual Hispanicize event to take place in Miami, April 4-8, 2016.

Coca-Cola announced a donation of $150,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), the nation’s largest not-for-profit organization supporting Hispanic American higher education. 

Telemundo 52 Los Angeles / KVEA announced that Enrique Chiabra has been named Co-Anchor for Telemundo 52’s weekday morning newscasts, Noticiero Telemundo 52 a las 5 AM y 6 AM. Yara Lasanta will be Telemundo 52’s new Weather Anchor for the station’s weekend newscasts, Noticiero Telemundo 52 a las 5:30 PM y 11 PM, and Julio Vaqueiro, who joined Telemundo 52 in 2013, is the new weekday evening news Co-Anchor for Noticiero Telemundo 52 a las 5:30 PM, 6 PM y 11 PM.

If you’ve had your fill of “future of marketing” prognostications, here’s a no-nonsense checklist to reflect on the health of your marketing with resolutions you can adopt immediately to start the year right.  

Whether it’s commenting on a one-handed grab a football player made, sharing pictures of a night on the town or re-posting a trending news story, social networking has become just another part of the media lifestyle for many U.S. consumers.  For instance, social networking on a PC reached more than 27% of black adults in a typical week—the highest of any multicultural group among PCs. The weekly reach of social networking on smartphones was highest among Hispanics (75%), while on tablets it’s highest among Asian-American adults (21%).

Growth comes from reflecting on and analyzing both success and failure. As we flip the calendar to a new year, we thought it would be helpful to share the five most common advertising mistakes that we’ve seen in the CPG category in hopes that we can all avoid these potential traps in 2016.

Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. expanded its partnership with Atlantic Broadband by launching two more of its Spanish-language cable networks, Pasiones and Televisión Dominicana, on Atlantic Broadband’s Miami systems.

Nat Geo Mundo is giving you an exclusive look into the lives of people who are doing what it takes to succeed in the new documentary series, Escuelas Insólitas Premiering on Friday, Jan. 15th at 7 p.m. ET/PT

Telemundo 47 New York / WNJU announced the addition of two new journalists to its news team.

Sun Broadcast Group and Intercambio Media announced that they have entered into a network partnership that will bring Intercambio’s En Al Aire prep service and Fuxion audio imaging service to Sun’s Hispanic lineup beginning immediately.

As we ring in an election year, we should allow for our (economic influence and) Cultura to serve as a catalyst to cultural understanding in the U.S. with an appreciation for where we come from and our collective desire to be an instrumental voice for Hispanic America.  By Gabriela Alcántara-Díaz – Founder and President of Semilla

Welcome to the seventh episode of #TotalMarketTalk, a Digital series created by NGL Media and NGLC exclusively for HispanicAd.  In this installment, David Chitel, CEO of NGL Media and Founder of NGLC, speaks with Javier Farfan – VP, Segment & Cultural Marketing, Verizon Wireless. 

Nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the U.S. in the past fifty years, after the passage of a landmark 1965 bill that rewrote U.S. immigration policy.

The Federal Communications Commission released the results of its ongoing nationwide performance study of consumers’ fixed broadband Internet access service in its fifth “Measuring Broadband America” report.

Sensis has launched SensisHealth, a specialized health care marketing practice to help providers, payers and pharmaceutical companies improve outcomes for a diverse population of patients and caregivers.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is launching a multiyear collecting initiative, “Latinos and Baseball: In the Barrios and the Big Leagues,” to identify artifacts that reflect the social and cultural influence of the game on Latino communities.

In recent years we have witnessed seismic shifts in the way people consume content and the technology that’s available for buying, selling and measuring its impact. Kantar Media’s CEO, Andy Brown, gives his predictions as we look to the year ahead.  By Andy Brown – CEO / Kantar Media

Deloitte’s 2015 Global Mobile Consumer Survey is the biggest and most extensive to date, capturing surprising consumer behavior and thought-provoking trends from nearly 50,000 respondents, ages 18 to 74, across six continents and 31 countries