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Stardome Media Reps (a division of Stardome Media Group) announced the addition of industry network radio sales icon, Dave Logan, Sr., as Director Corporate Sales.

Telemundo announced the premiere of its new national weekend newscast, “Noticiero Telemundo Fin de Semana,” on Saturday, October 4 at 5 pm/4 C.

Deportes Telemundo ushers the start of the new football season with its special “NFL Kickoff 2014 Presented By Xbox” from Seattle, Washington this Saturday, September 6 at 4:30 PM/3:30 C, featuring the stellar team of Karim Mendiburu, Ana Jurka, Leti Coo and Edgar Lopez.

Total Market is defined as: “A marketing approach followed by corporations with their trusted internal and external partners which proactively integrates diverse segment considerations. This is done from inception through the entire strategic process and execution, with the goal of enhancing value and growth effectiveness. In marketing communi­cations, this could lead to either one fully integrated cross-cultural approach, individual segment approaches, or both in many cases, but always aligned under one overarching strategy.”  By Bill Duggan, Group EVP, ANA

The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States has stabilized since the end of the Great Recession and shows no sign of rising, according to new Pew Research Center estimates.

SSG’s economic series analyzes economic indicators from various sources, sharing growth insights that are vital signs of “new” economic opportunity in the Total Market.

By Gonzalo López Martí @LopezMartiMiami

When I started out in this business back in the good ol’ 90s, it could take us weeks, even months to craft and get approval for a four word-long tagline.
Entire teams of senior admen and adwomen would sit down around a table to analyze inane lines of copy.
Clients would belabor for months over the meaning, subtext and anthropological connotations of a futile alliterated soundbite.
Of course, the soundbite under the magnifying glass was going to run on billboards, bus shelters, newspapers and magazines when billboards, bus shelters, newspapers and magazines reigned supreme in the marketing repertoire.
Today, I lead a team of dozens of fickle Millennials cranking out tweet-like musings by the truckload, destined to ephemeral social media lifespans.
Funny thing is, the dozens of fickle Millennials refuse to talk to me.

Stardome Media Reps (a division of Stardome Media Group) announced the addition of Thomas J. Cavallaro Jr. (Cavallaro Media Services) as Director of Sales/Digital Media. 

Avocados from Mexico (AFM) announced it will kick off its 2014-2105 retail promotional activity this Hispanic Heritage Month with “Échale al Asador” (Toss it on the Grill) a fully integrated program for Hispanic accounts. 

Multicultural populations are driving 84 percent of the population growth, fueling 81 percent of U.S. job growth and accounting for 43 percent of buying power in top 10 markets – with statistics like these, marketing practices are evolving and, until now, have been lumped into the umbrella term “Total Market.[1]” For the last year, AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing, in collaboration with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), and the Asian American Advertising Federation (3AF) assembled a broad coalition of clients, agencies and associations to define an integrated strategy for driving growth.

With a goal toward accessing Total Market strategies through the growing healthy-driven movement, SGG has launched SSG Wellness Spectrum™ powered by GfK MRI, an advanced analytics tool designed to incorporate wellness propensities & consumption insights to ground Total Market strategies across segments.

As business leaders, it can be a challenge to stay abreast of relevant industry trends and consumer dynamics. Often times, it is hard to assess the validity of the latest research publication and its relevance to your particular business. This is where a high caliber industry conference like Hispanic Retail 360(HR360) can come in handy. This conference covers the gamut between strategy and tactics in the retail space but, because it involves a variety of experts who are in the trenches with consumers daily, HR360 serves as a barometer for trends critical to any business dependent on today’s consumer.  By Bessie Ramírez, Managing Partner, About Marketing Solutions, Inc.

Despite commonly accepted notions of “healthy” among consumers, SSG’s recent analysis of “Healthy Breakfast Brands” revealed that there were no common brands among the top 2 “Healthiest Breakfast Brands” among various multicultural segments: Hispanics, Millennials, African Americans and White Non-Hispanics.  

Bessie Ramírez has joined Terry Soto at About Marketing Solutions, Inc. as Managing Partner.

Titled “Life Stories,” the multimedia campaign features customers who share their personal stories, to illustrate how much they trust Xoom for their money transfers back home.

Ogilvy & Mather Chicago announced Antonio Nunez as the new Head of Planning of the agency’s Chicago office starting in September.

Telemundo 40 announced an expansion to its local news operation designed to better serve the local Hispanic community in the Rio Grande Valley region.

Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo, who hosted a daily show on SiriusXM for the past year, expressed his appreciation to SiriusXM for the opportunity to bring his Spanish-language show to subscription radio.

Content may be king, but the future of media buying in a digital world will be based on audience, not content.

Mobile apps grab over half of US internet users’ time spent with digital media, and app retention and engagement are up. Based on July 2014 research by Localytics, push notifications may be helping to drive higher app interaction and lower abandonment rates.