By Gonzalo López Martí @LopezMartiMiami
Your beloved columnist spent the last two weeks wheeling, dealing, wining & dining down in Mi México Lindo y Querido.
Some highlights of what I saw, heard, imbibed and inhaled during my stay.
You’re welcome.
Just another service provided by your friendly neighborhood rant-man.
The Telemundo Station Group announced a series of leadership appointments in its sales organization, including naming Matt Boxer as Vice President of Business Development, Joe Napolitano as Vice President of its National Sales Offices and Jenney Valverde as Vice President of Sales Marketing.
Telemundo announced Allstate, Volkswagen of America, L’Oreal Paris and Hennessy as returning sponsors of “Premios Tu Mundo” (Your World Awards), honoring the best in novelas, music and sports.
There’s never been a time when U.S. consumers have had as much video content to choose from as they do today. But even with myriad options—and more coming online every day—few areas of the media landscape have the power to engage consumers the way local TV does.
GroupM issued its biannual This Year, Next Year futures report, forecasting global advertising investments will reach $534 billion in 2014, a 4.5% increase over 2013. The company predicts investments in 2015 rising an additional 5.0% to $560 billion – finally exceeding the pre-crisis peak of 2007/2008 in real terms.
I want to thank Nancy Hill of the 4A’s and Bob Liodice of the ANA for examining the critical issues of talent, compensation and the media and advertising industry’s slowness to change in back-to-back columns in The Wall Street Journal’s “CMO Today” earlier this week. Each courageously went out on a limb, and our industry will be better for it.
Every year around this time I am excited to analyze the Advertising Age Hispanic Fact Pack from a digital perspective. Every year I am optimistic that marketers will finally realize that U.S. Hispanics spend most of their time consuming digital media and allocate their marketing budgets accordingly. By Lee Vahn / Captura Group
This month’s MarketPulse is exploring how Hispanics choose to communicate and engage. If you consider the facts, outlined in the graphic below, you’ll see that not only are Hispanics more likely to own smartphones instead of landlines, but they’re more likely to browse and stream on their phones as well. These numbers represent a new generation of the U.S. Hispanic market, who embrace technology and use it frequently.
Colin Helms, senior vice president of connected content at MTV Networks, says that while mobile video viewing of the network’s programming continues to grow, tablet users are more engaged, with streams per user 80% higher compared with smartphone viewers. Helms spoke with eMarketer’s Rimma Kats about how viewers of MTV’s programming are consuming video content across a variety of platforms and device
Sofia Vergara has partnered with Kay Jewelers to launch her jewelry collection, SOFIA VERGARA so Sofia.
ESPN has reached a multimedia rights sublicense agreement with FOX Sports Media Group to carry a select package of UEFA Champions League matches across ESPN media platforms starting this fall with the 2014-15 season, through the 2017-18 season.
Telemundo Las Vegas announced that Frederik Oldenburg has been named sports anchor for “Noticiero Telemundo Las Vegas” at 6 PM and 11 PM
Eight major breakfast brands received top honors when the 2014 Wellness Brand Awards were announced today at the Hispanic Retail 360 Summit in San Antonio hosted by Stagnito. The winners were chosen from among 240 CPG brands competing for a “share of stomach” in various breakfast sub-categories.
In the United States, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that futbol will be the new football in a couple dozen years. Maybe just a dozen. Or fewer. Maybe next week. After all, we are talking about a sport that leads the popularity list among Hispanic and immigrant populations of all stripes; and it is also becoming the sport of the next generation, thanks to organized youth soccer, and because it is cheaper to play, and less hazardous, generally.
Telemundo announced the much anticipated list of finalists for the third annual Premios Tu Mundo (Your World Awards).
Will more Hispanics go to the movies if more Hispanics star in movies? That seems to be the assertion of a recent article that identifies the ongoing discrepancy between Hispanic movie buyers (there are a lot of them) vs. the amount of Hispanic representation in movies (there isn’t). by Stephen Palacios / Added Value
If everyone has a mobile device, why is mobile marketing so difficult for marketers? Why are the companies tasked to deliver mobile marketing opportunities so challenged in the marketplace? The answer is surprisingly simple, as was recently stated very clearly by a colleague of mine, Jeff Frantz. Mobile is a “meta-channel,” as he puts it — exactly the right phrase and one I sincerely wish I had thought of first.
If it says “mom,” is it a turnoff? Have we gotten to the point where marketing to “mom” works against us? Does “moms love this!” fall on deaf ears? Have we saturated the market with mom messages to the point moms no longer hear them? Are we too myopic in our focus on mothers?
mun2 kicks off the highly anticipated 2014/2015 season of the Barclays Premier League with three exciting matches
Remember when reading an email during a meeting was a big no-no? Or when texting on a date could get you dumped? Or when you could walk into a room and not see a mobile phone in everyone’s hand?
