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  Brand marketer mobile budgets surged 142 percent between 2011 and 2013, according to Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) analysis of figures released today in a new IAB study, produced by Ovum, which updates the landmark “Marketer Perceptions of Mobile Advertising” survey of 2011.

  Brown-Forman Corporation announced the appointment of Alejandro Solorio as multicultural marketing manager.  In this role, Solorio is responsible for the creation and activation of multicultural programs that will grow Brown-Forman’s share among high-growth multicultural consumer segments.

  The National Football League (NFL) has not been shy in its pursuit of Latino viewers. The most popular sports league in America wants to win over the fasting-growing demographic in America.

Marketers often operate within flight-driven campaign workflows, with budgets pre-allocated to specific content, times and frequencies, especially when amplifying owned social content, or sponsored content (e.g., Facebook Promoted Posts), one of the most prominent social advertising formats.

It’s no secret that online video is booming. The average American watches 22 hours of video each month. A recent comScore study reports that 187 million Americans watched nearly 50 billion online videos in July 2013.

    While the desktop PC may still have the greatest reach among US web users, time spent accessing the internet via mobile has surpassed time spent on the PC, according to research from mobile ad network Jumptap and comScore. This is in keeping with eMarketer’s findings, which estimate that this year, for the first time, time spent on nonvoice mobile activities will surpass time spent online on desktops and laptops.

Sports and numbers are indelibly intwined, but it is how you analyze and use those numbers that can make a difference between winning and losing, setting new records or accomplishing feats that previously had been unreachable.  It can also enhance the efforts of marketing campaigns.

  This wide-ranging report examines the generation that will define the future of the dominant emerging markets. It spotlights findings from a July 2013 survey of 18- to 35-year-olds conducted in Brazil, Russia, India and China using SONAR, JWT’s proprietary online tool.

  Premiering as part of the network’s Hispanic Heritage month programming and presented in tandem with the NCLR’s ALMA awards, the series takes a cue from the motto of the new Latino movement – “50 million strong, making it in America.”  “Hecho en America” celebrates and allows the inspiring journey of Latinos achieving the American Dream to be told by those changing it.

  Univision Communications, Inc. announced two key appointments to its executive team today; Rick Ehrman, a 20-year industry veteran, has joined the Company as executive vice president of Corporate Business Development and Jennifer Ball, who joined Univision in 2008, has been promoted and named executive vice president of Content Distribution Marketing and Partnerships.

  Fully 91% of American adults own a cell phone and many use the devices for much more than phone calls.

  Millennial males in the US have earned a reputation as laggards. But that’s not how today’s young men regard themselves, according to a new eMarketer report, “Taking the Measure of Millennial Men: As Sort-of-Grownups, as Digital Users, as Consumers.”

  To get a handle on how the shopping dynamics of consumers around the world are changing after the recession, Nielsen analyzed consumer transactions totaling $33 trillion in GDP across 14 countries* to see how people are shopping these days. The analysis looked at year-over-year growth rates for a three-year period and found that while spending intentions around the world are up, trips per household are either flat or declining, reflecting a new consumer mindset across both developed and developing markets.

  Cisneros announced the appointment of Jonathan Blum as President of Cisneros Media, a newly formed corporate division encompassing all of the organization’s affiliated media and entertainment companies, aligning their business strategies and fostering greater synergy. 

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New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera will be the focal point of a new advertising campaign for the New York Acura Dealers. The multi-platform campaign, titled “Legends,” is part of a partnership between the Mariano Rivera Foundation and the New York Acura Dealers, which contribute $50,000 per month to the foundation.

The Univision Network’s hit entertainment news and gossip show, “El Gordo y La Flaca”, is celebrating a truly memorable milestone this fall: 15 uninterrupted years on the air with the original hosts, the original schedule, and non-stop success.

VPE Public Relations announced that JustFab Inc. has retained VPE Public Relations for a national public relations campaign targeting Hispanic women that will launch in October.

  EPMG adds Alejandro “Alex” Sánchez to its executive team in the role of executive vice president and director of Hispanic media and custom publishing.

  The sharp decline in the U.S. population of unauthorized immigrants that accompanied the 2007-2009 recession has bottomed out, and the number may be rising again. As of March 2012, 11.7 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, according to a new preliminary Pew Research Center estimate based on U.S. government data.