NYC Advertising week: When it comes to mobile start with Multicultural

Xavier Mantilla, Stacey Abreu, Isabel Rafferty, Marla Skiko, Scott Kellstedt, Xavier Mantilla, Stacey Abreu established during a panel held a the MobileMediaSummit during NYC's Advertising Week. The panel was moderated by Jon Suarez-Davis – VP, Global Media & Digital Strategy, Kellogg Company.

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When it comes to mobile marketing campaigns, it is recommended to reach the Multicultural Consumer first. That is what Isabel Rafferty – VP of USA Sales, Adsmovil, Marla Skiko – EVP, Director of Digital Innovation, SMG Multicultural,Scott Kellstedt – GM, Appsnack, an Exponential division, Xavier Mantilla – SVP Multicultural Media, Identity, Mediabrands and Stacey Abreu – Group Planning Director, Mindshare established during a panel held a the MobileMediaSummit during NYC’s Advertising Week. The panel was moderated by Jon Suarez-Davis – VP, Global Media & Digital Strategy, Kellogg Company.

Due to the over-indexing of Hispanic and African American consumers in both the usage and engagement with mobile media, Mindshare’s Stacey Abreu recommends marketers to initiate their mobile marketing campaigns by targeting the multicultural consumer first.Hispanic and African American consumer targeted mobile campaigns is where advertisers should see the biggest bang for their buck.

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Adsmovil’s Isabel Rafferty noted that mobile is particularly important when it comes to reach out to the Hispanic consumer, because a substantial part of the Hispanic population uses mobile as their only access point to reach the Internet. SMG Multicultural’s Skiko added that communications with Hispanics should be anchored in mobility.  One of the challenges for marketers, according to Skiko, is that there is not enough content that is culturally relevant. That is why agencies and brands have to start content marketing campaigns targeting the Hispanic population almost from scratch by creating the content.

Latin America presence at NYC’s Adweek

Members of the audience at the Mobile Media Summit asked whether there are substantial differences between Latin American (south of the border)  and the U.S. Hispanic attitudes toward mobile media. According to Skiko, the characteristics of the audiences in Latin America are relatively similar to the U.S. Hispanic market. The only major difference is that the U.S. Hispanic consumer straddles between two worlds in a sort of balance between the Hispanic and “general market” cultures. As Identitity’ Mantilla put it, in Latin America “Spanish or Portuguese are the general market.”
To Mantilla in the Latin American mobile market, which currently has an approximately US $250 million annual spend, there is more SMS and text messaging used for advertising that in the U.S. due to the less advanced features of the mobile phones the majority of the population owns . In addition, the length of videos is shorter in Latin America.
According to Mantilla, mobile amounts to 20% of digital budgets in Latin America.
Latin American marketing, media and advertising professionals were definitely present during NYC’s advertising week with more than 25 Brazilian executives present during the MIXX conference and also many others from other countries, including Mexico and Argentina.

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