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June 22, 2010

Statistics in Context

Top Social Networking properties: MySpace leads, Sonico only Latino pure play. Do You want to buy a company: What is a reasonable price?

What happened to the Magazines that are inserted in Hispanic Newspapers?

Remember the heyday of magazines that were inserted in Hispanic newspapers (so-called carrier newspapers)? Kena, Sobre Ruedas, Fox Sports en Español, Hogar Latino, etc… Only two years have passed since their demise. The circulations for each of these magazines was close to a million. Those were the boom times of Hispanic print… What happened and who is remaining in the market? Here are 6 questions about newspaper inserts Portada’s editorial team tried to answer.

“Glocal”: Satisfying Latin Audiences Worldwide

Spanish-and Portuguese speaking audiences are a very important and growing segment of the world wide media, content and advertising industries. Did you know that the fourth largest newswire agency in the world is from Spain and mostly caters to Spanish speaking audiences worldwide? Yes, Spain's Agencia Efe only ranks after the Associated Press, Agence France Presse and the Chinese Xinhua news agency.

Media and Ad Execs See Business Improving

Business is clearly picking up in the Hispanic and Latin American advertising and media sectors, according to a Portada survey. The anonymous survey was done in mid-April. In addition to advertising and media executives, the survey included service providers, including companies belonging to the content, research and financial sectors.

Best Practices: Building a Successful and Trusted Brand

We recently published the 2010 ranking of the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands done by Millward Brown Optimor. Today, we take a look at the Best Practices needed to get your Brand to the Top 100. As we informed, no Latin brands are in the Top 30 as the first one is Banco Santander, ranked 31. Movistar (Telefonica) is the second Latin brand in the 60th position. Let’s see which are the must and must not actions in order that marketers can build a great brand.