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Using social media for business is not about getting the most “likes” or “followers.” Rather, using social media can help businesses, including automobile retailers, build better customer relationships and achieve better business results.

Marketers have, of course, cottoned onto the fact that today’s women have little in common with the figure of the typical housewife who dominated the 80s. They are well aware that the role of women both in family and public life has undergone a radical transformation which shows little sign of stopping.  by Cécile Gorgeon –  Added Value

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) announced the results of the latest Smart Mobile Cross Marketing Effectiveness (SMoX) study, a scientific examination conducted for The Coca-Cola Company in China earlier this year.

As the upfront finishes, we see not only flat and declining sales, but also how this impacts media stock values. While I am no longer a TV network executive, I am an informed advocate of the industry as well as an investor in many media companies. So I have a vested interest in the health of the business and in the success of those working hard to make their companies profitable.   

Thanks to ad-blocking technologies, many of the web’s most informed and devoted users have a very different internet experience than the ones marketers and publishers have built: no display or pre-roll video ads, no retargeted ads and, in many cases, no native ad content.

Telemundo Boston / WNEU announced that its first-ever live local newscasts – Noticiero Telemundo Boston – are slated to begin airing on Monday, August 17.

These economic woes have significant impact on teens and young adults in the affected countries. Youth unemployment is higher than 50% in Greece, and young people are leaving en masse. The same is true for Puerto Rico, where more than 300,000—many of them young people—have left over the last 15 years to relocate to the U.S.. Enrollment in Puerto Rican public schools is down a staggering 40% over the last decade.

Powered by the Toyota Corolla, these artists will share their journey through real-time social media content.

Founders and Executive Producers Diego Luna, Pablo Cruz and Eric Bonniot announced the formation of GLORIA, a multi-platform production studio specializing in branded entertainment.

The popular Journalist, and TV presenter Carmen Dominicci, is launching her new website CarmenDominicci.com and blog #RetoDominicci, taking over social media this upcoming Saturday.

Alphas will air weekly on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT after Battlestar Galactica, the classic cult series that continues to conquer audiences across languages and cultures.

Inc. magazine has unveiled its 34th annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. República, an independent cross-cultural advertising, digital and communications agency, has earned its place on the important list for the fifth consecutive year.

Where social media has most impacted digital marketing is in the tremendous volume of public data it produces and the potential of that data to provide marketing insights, much like we’ve seen with web data.

If the department store has largely become an anachronism in modern retailing, what does that suggest for the future of the supermarket? And what does it mean for CPG brands whose primary channel has been the supermarket for the last 80 years?

Verizon will be honored with the 2015 Award for Leadership in Hispanic Television at the 13th Annual Hispanic Television Summit, set for October 22 at the Park Central Hotel.

In this new role, Flaster will lead the TELEMUNDO network’s business planning process and identify strategies and opportunities to increase the commercial appeal of the network, while providing support to NBC UNIVERSO and Digital & Emerging Platforms.

The study from the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at USC Annenberg is the most comprehensive analysis of diversity in recent popular films ever conducted, bringing together data assessing gender, race/ethnicity and LGBT status in movies.

CafeMom launched Vivala.com for the millennial Latina.  

For a second year in a row 1210 ESPN Deportes, 1210-AM (WNMA) will continue its broadcasting partnership with the FIU Athletic Department and will provide full coverage and LIVE broadcasts which will include both pre and post-game analysis for all games in the upcoming 2015 season.  

Telemundo 39 Dallas-Fort Worth / KXTX announced that Sandra Thomas has been named Vice President of News for the station.