Univision Interactive has just announced they will partner up with AdReady and launch an advertising platform for smaller businesses seeking to advertise towards Hispanic groups. It’s a self-service platform for display advertising suited for companies with budgets below $15 000/month. One interesting idea is the possibility for clients selecting and customizing banner templates in Spanish [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
comScore just released the numbers for the top 25 Hispanic websites in March 2009. As seen below, Google has increased its foothold in the Hispanic groups with an increase of 17% YoY to 16.4 million unique visitors while Fox Interactive, AOL and eBay has lost ground during the last year. Note: March 2009 vs. March [...]
Posted in Multicultural Marketing, Online Marketing
Swedish internet magazine Internetworld has an interesting article (English translation here) on the rise of vertical advertising networks in the US and Sweden and the differences compared to affiliate networks. Vertical networks (collections of websites with the same target group or visitor profile) are a more direct channel to a specific visitor and is a [...]
Posted in Online Marketing
A bit off topic for this blog, but still interesting – Packaged Facts has published a report on opportunities for mainstream companies interested in selling halal and kosher food. The report ” MarketTrend: Kosher- and Halal-Certified Foods in the U.S.” shows that sales of kosher foods through grocery stores swelled from nearly $150 billion in [...]
Posted in Multicultural Marketing
Stockholm April 21st, 2009 – Sweden’s largest ad network for multicultural advertising and communication, Joinville, has extended its reach to 2.4 million visitors per month. Joinville launched its ethnic ad network in April this year and have already seen good response from various multicultural groups who want to earn money publishing ads on their websites. So [...]
Posted in News
Hispanic online adoption and engagement accelerates at blinding speed, reports comScore. A record 20.3 million visitors in February 2009, representing 11 percent of the total U.S. online market, are Hispanics which is an increase of 6% from previous year. Growth rates in visits, average minutes spent and page impressions all increased at a superior rate [...]
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There’s a reason US auto manufacturers are investing heavily in Hispanic marketing while their overall car sales numbers are falling drastically – with double digit growth in car sales to Hispanic Americans over the past few years, more than $1 trillion in buying power owned by this segment, continued migration and more than a third of the [...]
Posted in Multicultural Marketing
In an interview done last year on Clickz, Barbara Wojslawowicz from Overdrive Interactive, outline some of the challenges and interesting aspects of planning online multicultural media campaigns. For someone considering multicultural media campaigns online, Barbara’s advice on making small polls on what media the different ethnic group uses is a good starting point. She also [...]
Posted in Multicultural Marketing, Online Marketing
Using search engine marketing on Google, Yahoo and MSN is becoming more common and should be a key ingredient in most marketer’s online marketing plans for the forthcoming years. One innovative feature is the ability to geo-target and choose in what geographic locations and to what language groups you want to show your ads. The [...]
Posted in Search
Sixty five percent of Hispanics online are now using social media, according to Manny Miravete, VP, Sales and Strategy, MySpace and MySpace Latino. Speaking at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies’s 2009 Media and Account Management conference in Las Vegas last week, he shared some insights on brand marketing on social media sites in general [...]
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The global recession has left it’s marks on the multicultural (hispanic) media spend in the US – a slight increase of 2.8% of marketing invested in Hispanic media for 2008, according to AdAge.com. Of the Top 100 advertisers, 43 spent less 2008 than they did 2007. Here’s a list of the Top 10 advertisers in [...]
Posted in Multicultural Marketing
Hispanic spending power in the United States is expected to top $1 trillion by 2010 and companies are in the race for those cash buckets. HispanicBusiness.com has a well-written article on demographics and potential for this group that now constitutes 15.1% of the US population. Here’s the list of the 50 top advertisers in hispanic [...]
Posted in Multicultural Marketing