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AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing is pleased to announce its newest Advisory Board member, Stacie M. de Armas, the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Consumer Engagement at Nielsen, the global performance management company.

Univision Communications Inc. announced two key appointments that will strengthen its Local Media and Political and Advocacy Sales efforts. Jose Valle has been named president of Political & Advocacy Sales, and Jaime Jiménez, EVP, Univision Local Media, will assume responsibilities for Univision Radio content and Univision Radio’s operating hubs in Los Angeles, Miami and San Antonio

Novamex distributors announced the hire of new creative shop, WALO Creative, Inc. WALO will lead creative and assist with strategic planning for the Mexican beverage brands, Jarritos, Sangría Señorial and Mineragua effective immediately.

Mexico will be home to 65.1 million internet users—equivalent to 53.8% of its population—in 2015, a 9.4% year-over-year expansion, eMarketer estimates.

Digital identity is increasingly unwieldy. An ever-growing collection of emails, usernames, passwords and profiles are hard for consumers to manage and challenging for marketers to make sense of.

A new Horowitz Research study reveals 88% of urban TV content viewers has the ability to stream video content to a computer, mobile device, or directly to a TV.

Exodus Events presents LA Story, an event dedicated to celebrating the culture and lifestyle of the classic Lowrider, featuring the most influential custom car ever built, the Gypsy Rose, a live music concert and Lowrider-themed art exhibit benefiting Plaza de La Raza, a cultural center for the arts and education. 

The quarter finals of the FIFA Women’s World Cup have arrived. While female followers are largely watching the soccer games on TV, social networks are likely playing a key role in keeping these fans in the know.

June has hit full-stride, and so has the summer music festival season. The Governors Ball in New York City got the month started, with Drake’s super tight pants almost breaking the Internet, which was quickly followed by Bonnaroo. The Firefly Music Festival kicks off this Thursday, and the Warped Tour begins its four-month stretch this week as well.

Cannes is about creative, but this year the creative conversation is laced with something more than rosé – it’s laced with talk of how data can finally be used to influence the creative process.

Siempre Mujer magazine unveiled new research and key findings from its Siempre Beauty III: Latinas and Social Media, which examines the role social media plays in beauty purchasing decisions among Latinas.

This year’s survey also explored preferences when it comes to completing the mortgage process, finding that consumers today are looking for both the convenience of online access as well as personal guidance.

SOCCER.COM announced in collaboration with Makita USA its Seventh Annual El Tricolor Contest.

Discovery U.S. Hispanic and mitú  announced ta multiplatform development agreement to produce a slate of original digital and television series.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and YuMe released “Digital Advertising Audiences: The New ‘Liquid Consumer’ Paradigm,” a whitepaper that taps into top creative, brand, agency and publishing leadership for insights and guidance on navigating the new “liquid audiences” that discover content across a range of mediums, devices and platforms.

In a recent survey of more than 2,200 consumers worldwide, 63 percent of respondents said that they are highly annoyed by the way brands continue to rely on the old-fashioned strategy of blasting generic advertising messages repeatedly.

Tecate Light debuted the latest chapter of its “Born Bold” campaign in the form of the short film, “One Bold Night.”  Delivered in four easy-to-watch 60-second episodes, the new films depict the iconic Tecate Light Black Eagle experiencing an epic night from gritty, basement boxing match to penthouse party, all shot from the point-of-view (POV) of a friend’s mobile phone.

It’s no secret that television has changed dramatically in the last half decade, from the way it’s produced to how it’s consumed. Those changes have sparked a shift in the ways brands are able to connect with audiences.

#content #intellectualproperty

• Last week I waxed metaphysical about the sorry state of intellectual property in the modern world.
• The famous Hollywood line “nobody knows anything” -traditionally applied in Tinseltown to the arcane art of creating multiplex-filling hits- is evolving into -wink wink nudge nudge-: “nobody owns anything”.
• Piracy is pillaging the box office.
• The same is true about TV, literature, music.

By Gonzalo López Martí        LMMIAMI.COM

Telemundo 47 New York / WNJU announced that Karen Mendez has been named Vice President of News. In this role, she will be responsible for the overall performance of the Telemundo 47 news department and any other local productions across multiple media platforms. Mendez will assume her role in mid-July 2015.