Conferences

AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing will honor agency pioneer Ernest Bromley with the Caballero Award and Ceril Shagrin, executive vice president of Audience Measurement Innovation and Analytics for Univision

2016 is a big year for AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing – not only is the organization celebrating its 20th anniversary but it is putting on the most anticipated multicultural marketing conference of the year. AHAA 20/20: The Future in Focus, taking place at the Nobu Eden Roc Resort in Miami on April 18-20, acknowledges the tremendous growth of the past two decades but also lasers in on how exponential changes in technology and demographics are shaping the U.S. marketing landscape to today and tomorrow. AHAA has jam-packed the most buzzed about topics, such as demographic disruption, social native content, digital fraud, programmatic and ad blocking, into a powerful, three-day agenda.

Top U.S. and Latin American digital influencers converge at the 2016 Annual Conference, AHAA 20/20: The Future in Focus. AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing confirmed three high ranking digital influencers to sit on a panel at the 2016 conference taking place at the Nobu Eden Roc Resort in Miami on April 20. These digital superstars include Luis Balaguer, founder and CEO of LatinWe, who shares the stage with other panelists focusing on the art of influencer marketing and how brands can achieve the most organic results through these partnerships.

Key members of the team behind FOX’s runaway hit series EMPIRE will appear at NAB Show next month in Las Vegas.

Radio Ink announced the winners of the 2016 Medallas de Cortez Awards. The awards are named in honor of Raoul Cortez, who founded KCOR, the first Spanish-language station in the United States, in 1946.

Jose Dante Para is the CEO of Prospero Latino. He’s a Democratic strategist and was a senior advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. As the opening keynote speaker at the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference, Tuesday, Para told attendees political candidates need to use radio and, he said, the R.O.I. candidates get from radio is huge.

At Radio Ink’s Hispanic Radio Conference, Tuesday, on a panel about how to target that highly influential millennial generation, Garcia said not only should managers not be afraid to put millennials in important positions in their radio station, they should also embrace digital. We asked Garcia to tell us about his successes with digital. 

Phillip Gabbard spent years in radio selling the product. Today he works at inMEDIAto Media Consultants & TuVisionCanal.com and spends millions of dollars a year on radio. He believes in radio and says he can easily provide his clients with measurable results from his radio buys.

Former Katz Executive Bob McCurdy is now running his own company called Uppingthevolume.com. On Wednesday, at the Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference, McCurdy presented new data on the power of radio.

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is introducing the new Multicultural TV & Video Conference, taking place Wednesday, April 20 in Las Vegas during the 2016 NAB Show.

AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing announced that State Farm is the winner of the 2016 AHAA Marketer of the Year Award. It joins a prestigious short list of elite brands that have received the award, including McDonald’s, Toyota, and Walmart. Leif Roll, marketing vice president at State Farm, will accept this award during the 2016 AHAA Annual Conference on Wednesday, April 20 at the Nobu Eden Roc Resort in Miami.

One of the most influential Latino filmmakers is joining a powerful roster of CMOs, authors, entertainers, media executives and researchers who are at the forefront of change and innovation in their industries. AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing is excited to announce its latest keynote speaker at its Annual Conference at the Nobu Eden Roc in Miami: Roberto Orci, the billion-dollar filmmaker behind some of the decade’s biggest films including Mission: Impossible III, Eagle Eye, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Cowboys and Aliens and the Star Trek films.

Branded content, ad blocking, digital advertising fraud, programmatic, total market and digital disruption are just some of the ever-evolving realities that are forcing marketers, media, agencies and the entire marketing ecosystem to explore a new future together.  These topics and more fill the jam-packed agenda of AHAA’s 2016 Annual Conference held April 18-20 in Miami.

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Telemundo News announce a new partnership that will kick off with a daylong conference “The Latino Vote: Myth vs. Reality,” scheduled to take place in New York City on Friday, January 29 beginning at 9 a.m.

A part of its 2015 communication campaign, El Ojo de Iberoamérica launches a videogame in which ChinChin, the wrestling cholita, fights against four stars of regional and worldwide creativity.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises received six awards at the 2015 NAMIC Excellence in Multicultural Marketing Awards (EMMA) on Wednesday, September 30 at the 29th Annual NAMIC Conference. 

Verizon will be honored with the 2015 Award for Leadership in Hispanic Television at the 13th Annual Hispanic Television Summit, set for October 22 at the Park Central Hotel.

Now in its 15th year, the Multicultural Excellence Awards recognize outstanding multicultural advertising campaigns produced by marketers and their agencies. Winners will be announced at the 2015 ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference presented by Time Inc., November 8-10 in Miami Beach, Florida.

AHAA: The Voice of Hispanic Marketing announced that it will donate the Sara Sunshine archives to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History where they will become part of the nationally recognized advertising collections held by the museum’s Archives Center. The Sara Sunshine archives feature advertising print, audio and visuals from the 1960s to 1990s and include artifacts from Ms. Sunshine’s tenure at Spanish Advertising and Marketing Services (SAMS), the first recognized U.S. Hispanic agency founded in 1962, and Siboney Advertising. Among the major advertisers showcased in the Sara Sunshine archives are companies such as Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark, Pepsi-Cola and Polaroid.

HispanicAd.com announced the winners of the 2015 “Excelencia” Media Planning Awards (HMPE) at a luncheon during AHAA annual conference in Miami, FL on Tuesday  April 28, 2015.