Portada is glad to announce Jose Bello has been appointed as Director, Multicultural and Latam at Omnicom’s Icon International Inc. Congratulations, Jose!
After three years as Senior Director, Total Market at Hearts & Science, long-time Portada collaborator Jose Bello is moving to another Omnicom company: ICON International Inc. ICON helps clients recover value from their underperforming assets in exchange of media. All media purchases made through ICON are at clients’ benchmark pricing and quality; thus, Jose’s mission will be to identify opportunities for clients to consider corporate barter as an efficient way to fund their media investments in multicultural and in LATAM.
Jose is an accomplished veteran in the industry with more than 25 years of experience in marketing, advertising, and media. At Hearts & Science he led the media team in charge of multicultural work for P&G, including the multi-awarded campaign “The Talk”— an effort against racial bias that received 8 Lion Cannes and a Grand Prix, Effies, Reggies, Festival of Media awards, 4A’s, and a TV Academy Emmy Gold Award for Outstanding Commercial in 2018. Prior to Hearts, he was Managing Partner at Mediacom New York where he worked with clients such as Anheuser Busch, MARS, Volkswagen, Subway, Revlon, and Dell, among others. Jose also spent 6 years at Starcom on different roles in Miami, Latam, and a two-year assignment in Russia to manage the Coca-Cola and Novartis accounts.
On his new role at ICON International, Jose will be based out of the newly-opened satellite office in Fort Lauderdale. We wish him good luck in his new endeavors at ICON!
Petco announced it has selected New York-based Horizon Media as its strategic media agency of record in support of the company’s ongoing retail and marketing transformation efforts.The selection follows just weeks after Anomaly was named the company’s creative agency of record, and was the result of a review process initiated in the Fall of 2018 and managed by MediaLink.Horizon will begin working with Petco immediately to deliver fully-integrated media planning and buying across paid channels and strategic integration with both Anomaly and Edelman, Petco’s PR agency of record. 
Avocados From Mexico (AFM), is taking shoppers’ party spreads to the next level with its Guac Nation program. The No. 1 selling avocado brand in the U.S. is teaming up with RITAS and TABASCO® Brand to help consumers savor winning flavors during the Big Game. The program runs through February 3, 2019, and will offer 360 support to inspire avocado consumption and lift sales. Avocados From Mexico will also be returning with its fifth annual Big Game commercial on February 3. Guac Nation seamlessly ties-in to support AFM’s established shopper communications platform, Savor Every Moment. During the week of the Big Game last year, increased avocado consumption helped retailers reach a 4-year sales high of US$58 million2 of all commodities. With millions of consumers hosting Big Game parties, this serves as an opportunity for high avocado consumption. Guac Nation is leaning into that excitement and engaging shoppers as they prepare for game day, making avocados the star player on their shopping lists.
Chevron, the second-largest integrated energy company in the United States, has put its global media planning and buying business in review. WPP has been the brand´s incumbent for 16 years. Two unnamed competitors will be pitching against the incumbent, aacording to a party close to the review . WPP currently handles global media for three of the world’s four largest fossil fuel companies, according to Adweek. The latter review resulted in the formation of dedicated unit Team Energy, which consists of Ogilvy, Grey, VML, Mindshare, Essence, SocialLabs and Landor.>
P&G is bringing more of its media planning and buying in-house in an effort to cut costs and improve profit margins, as well as bringing its marketers closer to the consumers they serve. There was not a formal review but an internal bid process, in which Incumbent media shops Hearts & Science and Carat and P&G’s own in-house team participated, according to Adweek. Procter & Gamble’s in-house agency has taken over a larger share of its media business in the US. P&G categories at stake included fabric care, oral care, feminine care, personal healthcare, home care, skincare and baby care. P&G spent US$2.75 billion on paid media in the U.S. in 2017 and just over US$2 billion from January to September 2018, according to Kantar Media.
American video game company Electronic Arts — which develops and publishes games like FIFA, Madden NFL and The Sims —has placed a big part of its´media business
Ikea announced it has appointed Wavemaker to retain its planning and buying business in the U.S. following a global media review that launched in 2016.WPP ‘s Wavemaker will be tasked with driving “deeper integration and innovation” in-store and online across all of the furniture brand’s domestic media channels including data science, multicultural, search engine optimization (SEO) and content offerings, according to the announcement.Ikea spent US$108.2 million on measured media in the U.S. last year and US$106.6 million in 2016, according to Kantar Media. MEC was the incumbent for 11 years.
Hearts & Science has been appointed to handle pharmaceutical company Amgen’s US$350 million media planning and buying account, following a review, Adweek first reported. Incumbent agency on the account was WPP’s MEC. Amgen produces medications such as Neulasta and Neupogen. The company ad spend in 2018 will approach US$350 million.
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McDonald’s has rolled out a multimedia Hispanic market campaign centered in Houston that was part of the giant QSR’s January launch of its US$1 $2 $3 Dollar Menu, a key part of its growth strategy, Mediapost has reported.The campaign aimed to connect with Hispanic consumers looking for ways to find value without compromising quality, drive traffic and sales lifts in Houston locations, and support brand affinity among the Hispanic segment nationally by showcasing McDonald’s’ commitment to supporting the Hispanic community, reports Natalie Asorey, a supervisor at the Miami-based Boden agency, which spearheaded the campaign.The campaign “¡Síganme los Buenos! (“Good guys, follow my lead!”)was designed as a test model for adaptation in other key Hispanic markets. it was centered on El Chapulín Colorado — a Mexican TV character.The campaign included animated social video that teased the brand’s partnership with El Chapulín Colorado, posted on the brand’s U.S. Hispanic Facebook page, McDonald’s Latino, and the local McDonald’s Houston Facebook and Instagram pages.There was also a media tour featuring Roberto Gómez Fernández — the son of the character’s creator and spokesperson for Grupo Chespirito (owner of the character) — and Nelly Quijano, local McDonald’s owner/operator, with national and local general market and Hispanic media outlets.As part of a local media buy, radio and TV spots and influencer content went live on the days leading up to a January 27 takeover event at Quijano’s McD’s location. The team launched a second animated video to announce the campaign that revealed the character and encouraged consumers to try the new $1 $2 $3 Dollar Menu. At the same time, the local giveaway rules were published on the McDonald’s newsroom.
Chicago-based Tampico Beverages, one of the world’s leading beverage brands that has successfully cornered a niche of multicultural, economic, family shoppers, announced the launch of its brand refresh, including an updated logo, a new look and feel across its family of fruit flavored juice drink products, website and social media channels. To celebrate this milestone and provide consumers with a chance to engage with Tampico’s new brand expression of being “Imaginatively Curious,” Tampico brand ambassadors will be hosting activations in seven major cities across the U.S. starting today. 
Hearts & Science responsibilities for P&G span categories such as Fabric (Gain, Tide), Hair (Pantene, Head & Shoulders) and Personal Health (Pepto-Bismol, Vicks). One key question for multicultural marketers, is whether the “total market approach” is still the right way of marketing to multicultural audiences, particularly taking into account