Archive for May, 2009

The 7th edition of Packaged Facts “The Hispanic (Latino) Market In The USA” was released in March and has some interesting facts. As the Hispanic buying power nears $1 trillion, the 46 million Hispanics now living in the United States wield a powerful influence on the American consumer economy. Between 1995 and 2007, expenditures by [...]

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A little humor and the latest technology are part of a new awareness campaign Pase La Voz – part of the American Heart Association’s Conozca Su Corazon heart-health program for Hispanics.
Beginning May 26, individuals will have three months to sign up to receive a free, weekly health message in Spanish or English sent to their [...]

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DMS Research and the Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication at Florida State University continues to produce interesting reports on multicultural consumer attitudes and behavior. We’ve posted about their study on social media usage among ethnic groups in the US before, and this report is a part of the same study.
The report “Multicultural Consumer Attitudes” (download [...]

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Prior to starting up Ad Sheik the team here worked in multicultural marketing and web development for multinationals and as self-employed people. During those years we saw and heard many people asking the same type of question -  Which product(s) are suitable to market to multicultural groups? Aren’t all products suitable or are certain product [...]

MasterCard is about to launch an integrated US Hispanic campaign for their debit and prepaid cards which will run on US TV. In addition to TV, MasterCard is using Spanish-language radio ads, as well as out-of-home and online advertising. Not new to this, MasterCard has used targeted-Hispanic advertising since 2000.
MasterCard is working in partnership with [...]

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We’ve seen before that online video is big with US Hispanics. Turns out offline cinema can be just as attractive.
Source: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002327.html?categoryid=2520&cs=1
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The Nielsen Company says that significant demographic and economic shifts over the next 10+ years will dramatically reshape the growth and decline of consumer packaged goods (CPG) products in the future. The analysis was [...]

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As more and more marketers relies on email marketing for cost-effective communication to leads and customers, always useful Marketing Sherpa publishes tactics on how to localize your email campaign to new markets. Although the article is written for companies trying to run email campaigns abroad I found it helpful when thinking about intra-country communication towards [...]

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Canada-based Indianelement.com has recently launched their customisable start page for South Asians in the UK that allows users to fully personalise their entire favourite web content onto a single page. Users can build their start page by selecting from over 500 ‘widgets’ – for local national and international news, sports, Asian events, ringtones, Bollywood, a [...]

The population growth of Hispanics and Asians in the U.S. has slowed unexpectedly, deterred by immigration laws and the negative economy, causing the government to push back estimates on when minorities will become the majority by as much as a decade. The nation’s overall minority population continues to rise steadily, growing 2.3 percent in 2008 [...]

A new study from Telemundo and Meredith Hispanic Ventures on Hispanic women reports that Latinas have “redefined their priorities,” with higher education and careers now trumping getting married as top goals.
The study, titled “What Latinas Want” combined quantitative and qualitative research and had a national sample of 1,004 Latinas, ages 18-64. A sub-sample of 500 [...]

Starting June 4, marketers in some 200 countries will be able to purchase rival trademarks as keywords to trigger display of “sponsored search” ads on Google. For instance, Movistar can now run their ads whenever someone searches for “Telefonica” in Spain.
Google’s policy, implemented in the U.S. and Canada in 2004, bars advertisers from using others’ [...]

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Search-engine firm iProspect together with Forrester has published a study that suggests a much closer relationship between online display advertising and search than what many marketers may think. The study, “Search Engine Marketing and Online Display Advertising Integration Study” shows that more than half of internet users (52%) actively respond to display advertising on ad-supported [...]

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Vertical networks specialize in a particular type of content or audience, and represent only sites related to that topic. The Web is fragmenting and finding thes sweet spots where your target group gathers will be a corner stone in your marketing media platform as the web matures. Research has shown that visitor engagement is higher [...]

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US automaker Ford is advertising towards US Hispanic women on Tu Voz, part of AOL’s Latina lifestyle network, “Tu Vida y Mas”. Tu Voz, a Spanish-language resource for Hispanic women hosted by TV personality Lesley Ann Machado, will also be promoted on social networking sites like Bebo, Facebook and Twitter.
David Rodriguez, multicultural marketing at [...]

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