Three Hispanic Marketing Implications of T‑Mobile’s Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile Acquisition
What are the Hispanic marketing implications of T-Mobile’s new acquisitions? Three things you need to know.
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What are the Hispanic marketing implications of T-Mobile’s new acquisitions? Three things you need to know.
We recently published an article asking whether Hispanic media companies are weathering the advertising recession better. Well, we just got data to answer that question, and the answer is yes, at least if we look at the largest Hispanic media company: TelevisaUnivision.
Pepsi is one of the few FMCG companies with a Hispanic Business unit and sales of over US $2 billion a year. Portada spoke with Antonio Escalona, PepsiCo’s Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Hispanic Business Unit, about how the Juntos Crecemos initiative ties in with PepsiCo’s overall marketing.
Boost Mobile Latino, Mondelez, Daniel’s Jewelers… and other brands targeting the U.S. consumer right now. Check out our prior Sales Leads columns.
What is the effectiveness of influencer marketing? How have conversion rates evolved? Is influencer marketing really helping brands to convert or is it more of an upper funnel awareness tool? We talked to Julia Estacolchic Sr. Director, Brand Marketing at Match and other brand marketers in the Portada network to find out.
“We are the first ever conservative radio and TV platform in Spanish. It has not happened in the world before,” Jorge L. Arrizurieta, President of Americano Media, tells Portada. With a potential target market of more than 500 million Spanish speakers worldwide Americano Media is a new multimedia platform for conservative Latinos, producing 18 hours of original programming for an under-represented audience.
GoDigital Media Group (“GoDigital”), the owner of mitú, announced the acquisition of NGL Collective with the backing of MEP Capital, a media and entertainment-focused investment firm. The new entity will retain the name of NGL Collective.
Televisa Univision’s ViX and T-Mobile announced an agreement that substantially impacts the Hispanic streaming and video space. T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile are giving their new and existing customers a free subscription to ViX+, the premium SVOD tier of ViX, for a full year.
At a recent Portada Live knowledge-sharing event for brand marketers Erin Siegel, Senior Director, Public Relations & Executive Communications Century 21, asked other participants about the role Content Marketing for E-Commerce plays in their strategies. Specifically, what role does content marketing play in the online marketplace space and how do they leverage it to differentiate their brands?
While Centers of Multicultural Marketing Excellence certainly fulfill their function as specialized units for best practices and research, they are also sometimes mocked by insiders as consulting units that do not have decision-making power. This is not the case of Dish’s Hispanic Center of Excellence, Alfredo Rodriguez, Vice President, Latino Center of Excellence at DISH Network tells Portada. “DishLATINO is a brand and a product. A P&L focused mindset drives all acquisition, retention, programming & product initiatives.”, he asserts.
DoorDash launched ‘Antojo’, its first-ever custom created Spanish & English multi-platform marketing campaign aimed at authentically connecting with the Latino community.
The closing of Canela Media’s US$ 32 million Series A funding round is one of the few relatively sizable investments in digital media companies in the last few years, particularly in Hispanic digital media. Four things You need to know.
Dairy Marketing: Colombian dairy, food, and beverage company Alpina has entered into a partnership with Clover Sonoma, a dairy company located in Sonoma County, CA. With approximately US $240 million in annual sales, Clover Sonoma is a leading dairy processor in Northern California. Clover Sonoma is particularly strong in the organic milk market, which is a growing market as opposed to the stagnating non-organic milk market.
Remember when everyone was talking about Pokémon Go? After the hype subsided, augmented reality has been steadily growing as a force in media over the past five years. Ivan Markman, Chief Business Officer at Yahoo, sees three important trends going forward.
The Dominican Republic’s Grupo Corripio and Puerto Rico’s Grupo Ferré Rangel are the two largest media groups in the Caribbean. Both groups have a significant commonality: a very important audience reach in the United States. With the audience as a backbone, “both media companies joined forces in 2018 to build a larger and stronger audience network of Hispanics in the U.S,” Augusto Romano, CEO of Digo Hispanic Media tells Portada.
Felix Antelo CEO of Viva Air, tells Portada how the Colombian ultra-low-cost airline is expanding into new markets, including the United States. He provides interesting insights into how low-cost airlines are marketed in Latin America vs. the U.S. and more.
Fabrizio Luna’s incorporation reinforces Worldcom OOH’s commitment in its global expansion as it continues to strengthen the company by generating new business out of Europe.
Aprende Institute, an EdTech platform for the Spanish-speaking population, just closed an investment round of US $22 million. Portada talked to Martin Claure, CEO of Aprende Institute, about the Ed Tech company’s growth plans and the opportunities he sees in the high-growth U.S. Hispanic market.
As CTV advertising is clearly on the rise, there is still a lot of confusion in the brand marketing and media buying community about what CTV really means and what, its key features are. What are its advantages? Is it interactive? How do you buy it? 6 key questions and their answer according to executives from Mastercard and Innovid.
Shopping habits on and offline, brand loyalty, and mobile technology on fire this 2020! A summary of the most relevant consumer insight research. If you’re