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Today’s consumer packaged goods firms need the agility to redirect investment into growth-driving initiatives if they are to remain competitive amid volatile market conditions.

74% of online adults use social networking sites in the US , and this is no longer limited to the young as we see increased numbers of users aged 50+. The proliferation of smartphones means social media data is being captured in real-time as consumers post in the moment.

Customer loyalty pays off—just ask Amazon.com and take a look at the loyalty of holiday gift givers—and marketers were bringing these efforts to mobile.

Michael Vinales joined the Miami Herald Media Company as vendor section and co-op specialist with the niche & special publications group.

Telemundo Network announced the appointment of Luis Carlos Vélez to Executive Vice President of Network News, reporting to Luis Silberwasser, President of the Telemundo Network.

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s comments come in response to news that the FCC is poised to re-define broadband as speeds of at least 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream — marking a significant increase from the current definition of 4 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream.

The current media agency income model heavily relies on fees. These fees are typically calculated on the basis of full-time equivalent shares of people working on a piece of business, plus overhead and other costs of running an account. There’s often a pay-for-performance or other incentives included to drive the agency to deliver.

By Gonzalo López Martí – LMMIAMI.COM

• Mark Zuckerberg, Trevor Kalanick, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos.
• Last names are brands.
• More than ever before.
• We need to believe there’s a human being behind the products and services we buy.
• We need to root for them.
• Deposit all our hopes & expectations on them.
• Life is more simple this way.

Now that we’ve settled back into our routines and our own personal New Year’s resolutions have fallen by the wayside, we’d like to suggest a new resolution to adopt: Get more nuanced about marketing to Millennials.

Azteca America announced the premiere of the telenovela Contrato de Amor, starring Leonardo García and Ximena Rubio. 

La comunidad is translating its name to the community to better reflect the reality of today’s cultural landscape.

You might think that American Millennials – of all ethnicities – would be in the same ballpark when it comes to their finances… and you’d be partially right. In some aspects of it, they are in lock-step. For example, when asked if they did not believe in using a traditional bank, approximately 30% in each group completely or somewhat agreed.  But what’s interesting is where they diverge from one another.

U.S. companies are struggling to keep pace with their customers’ “always on” nature and greater use of digital channels, according to new research from Accenture. As a result, the “Switching Economy” – the potential revenue up for grabs in the U.S. market due to changes in consumer spending patterns and switching rates – has swelled to $1.6 trillion, a 29 percent increase since 2010.

A global study sponsored by Teradata Corp., the big data analytics and marketing applications company, revealed an apparent disconnect between how chief executive officers (CEOs) see the current status and benefits of data initiatives and how lower-level managers see them. This and other disparities impede success and imperil the competitive advantage companies hope to realize.  

Why Hispanics are a key segment for digital commerce sites to differentiate and grow their business, especially in highly Hispanic areas such as California, Texas and Florida

Every business leader knows that it is easier to grow sales by engaging existing customers than acquiring new ones. And yet, as apparel brands currently focus on driving Back-to-School and Fall Season sales in a highly competitive landscape, they keep missing opportunities to build deeper relationships with Hispanics, a large and growing fashion-focused segment.

Think back to your own teen years. Maybe it was not long ago. Maybe it was decades ago. What did you love when you were young? Cars? Video games? Movies? Dancing? Sports? Some of you probably liked some of those things but there is one thing pretty much every teen loves and that’s music. Music holds a special place in everyone’s heart and memory. A song from a long ago summer can bring back memories in a way few other things can match. Listening to and loving music is part and parcel of being a teen.

Amid their interest in millennials, marketers look to the 19 million-plus US college students as an audience worth courting. After all, it is a mostly millennial subset that already deploys considerable spending power and (with degree in hand) will be poised to outearn and outspend noncollege millennials for decades to come, according to a new eMarketer report, “US College Students 101: Updating Fundamental Facts About This Diverse, Digital Cohort.”

Pasiones, a TV network dedicated to soap operas and dramatic series, has acquired exclusive rights for the U.S. premiere of “Dulce Amor.”

In the drive for expanded access to high-quality early education programs, stakeholders need to understand and address the unique learning needs of young Hispanic dual language learners (DLLs), according to a new report from Educational Testing Service (ETS). The report examines the emerging research base on strategies for supporting the learning and development of DLLs in preschool and the early primary grades.