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Kellogg’s Jon Suarez Davis: “I Would Love to be Able to Buy Ads on YouTube”

Jon Suarez Davis, VP Global Media Strategy at Kellogg Company, and a speaker at #PortadaLat which is taking place in Miami, would love to be able to buy advertising on YouTube. “We can’t because of their lack of third party verification. They do not allow third party tags,” Suarez told Portada.  Kellogg’s and other major marketers have been asking publishers including  YouTube to enable them to check viewability rates.

@PortadaLat: Documenting the Relentless Ascent of TV Everywhere

Different aspects of Online Video Marketing were front and center during the first day of #PortadaLat in Miami’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. Major Thought Leaders including Jan Riemens, CEO of ZoominTV, Maya Kosovalic, Digital and Media Communications Manager at L”Oreal Travel Americas, Adriana Grineberg, Head of Operations Miami at Facebook and Carlos Espindola, Gerente eHub Latin America, 3M took the stage.

Spain Based MCN Wants to Conquer the Latin World

Through Youtube’s Partner Program, users that generate and upload original content can earn revenue from the ads that appear on their own channel. While this has happened for years already in the U.S., it is a relative novelty in the U.S. Hispanic market and Latin America…and not least in Spain, where Madrid headquartered MCN 2Btube has Pan-Latin ambitions.

One more Latin MCN: FAV! Network launches with Emiliano Saccone as COO

One more piece in the puzzle of the emerging Latin Digital entertainment and online video space: FAV! Network, a digital entertainment company created to bond global content creators, audiences and advertisers around the diverse Latino cultural DNA has officially launched across the Americas.

Deezer acquires mostly Hispanic targeted Muve Music Service from Cricket (AT&T)

France-based music streaming service Deezer, which competes with Spotify, has acquired the assets of Muve music from Cricket, the wireless carrier acquired by AT&T in 2014 for US$1.2 billion, and it will now partner with AT&T to sell Deezer music services to Cricket subscribers. Terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed.