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Sounding-Off

Sounding Off

Sounding Off: Scott Rasmussen – “Advertising agencies offer 30 million Spanish-speakers una magra pitanza”

American ad shops have never produced more copy in Spanish, and too much of it is impaired. Even the Hispanic agencies produce Spanish copy that is misspelled and ungrammatical. When the copy is grammatical and spelled correctly, it often contains pidgin vocabulary: oficinas corporativas for domicilio social, contraparte for homólogo. Yes, Spanglish stalks advertising’s virtual enclosure, as the ghastly phrases ciertas restricciones aplican and oferta por tiempo limitado propagate remorselessly.

Sounding Off: Alain Portmann: “How Moneyball reminds me of online media”

Last year I headed over to my local cinema and bought a ticket for the matinee showing of Moneyball. While not a follower of baseball, I was intrigued by the impact that systematic data analysis had – and continues to have – on both America’s favourite pastime and the world of Digital Advertising I joined in 1996.

Sounding Off:Daisy Expósito-Ulla: “The U.S. Multicultural Market: The Pluricultural Nation”

Daisy Expósito-Ulla, is Chairman and CEO of d expósito & Partners: “We all know that the United States is experiencing an unparalleled demographic shift, a shift of major proportions that affects everything — from media consumption and how we consume it, from food and beverage choices to beauty and health, from fashion and living trends to our ways of communicating with each other, both here and globally…”