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Nielsen Buys Arbitron

Nielsen Holdings, a global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to

UniWorld Group wins Amtrak Account

Brooklyn, NY, based multicultural advertising agency UniWorld Group has won the Amtrak account, Portada has learned.  Uniworld Group will be Amtrak’s Multicultural Agency of Record including media planning and buying

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Republica’s Carrasco to Become NPR’s Head Marketer

Emma Carrasco, currently Executive Vice President of Republica, a Miami based strategic and creative agency specializing in multiplatform marketing, will become NPR’s head marketer, announced Gary E. Knell, President and CEO of NPR. Her appointment as Chief Marketing Officer begins December 3 and follows an extensive national search.

Images at Center Stage

The demand for images has exploded in the last decade, pro- pelled by the expansion of digital media. All the executives in the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American media industries interviewed for this article by Portada agree that photographs and graphics no longer play an auxiliary role to news con- tent, but are instead integral ele- ments of that content.

ANA: Walmart embraces Total Market Approach, doubles Multicultural Ad spend

A year after providing a presentation on Walmart’s multicultural marketing plans, Tony Rogers SVP, Brand Marketing & Advertising at WalMart (photo), returned to the ANA Multicultural stage to say that the retailer plans todouble its multicultural ad spending as part of an initiative to move the company from a silo-like approach to making sure everyone takes responsibility for multicultural marketing (Total Market Approach).

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Piedmont RIA invests in local Search Engine YaSabe

Piedmont RIA through its affiliate Militello Capital, just has made a venture capital investment in YaSabe, Inc., a bilingual social, mobile and local search venture specifically catering for Hispanic consumers living in the United States.

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Hispanic E-Commerce Play Mercado Magico gets private financing

NeoMagic Corporation announced that it has executed a private financing of Mercado Magico. The financing is led by Bluestone Financial LTD investor group and Attiva Capital Partners, two venture capital and investment firms. David Tomasello, NeoMagic's Chairman of the Board, is managing director of Bluestone Financial and Attiva Capital Partners.