Thursday, November 5th, 2009
This is an interesting social media story growing out of an unfortunate news story. It is all over the news that there was a shooting incident today at Ft. Hood outside of Killeen, TX. The interesting social media story is that within hours, if not minutes, of the shootings the Austin American-Statesman set up a [...]
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
It seems like everyone is talking about Hispanics and social media. There is all kinds of data floating around the marketing and advertising industry about how Hispanics over-index in their use of social media like social networking (Facebook, MySpace) and content sharing (YouTube, Flickr). Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of discussion as to how to [...]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
The 2010 Census might represent a difficult Catch-22 for the Hispanic advertising and media industry.
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
There is always a lot of debate in interactive advertising about metrics. Do clicks matter? What is engagement? What’s an impression really worth? But the biggest debate by far is whether to use traditional advertising metrics such as reach, frequency, and GRP. Even here at ThinkMulticultural, we’ve been “preaching for a while that the old, [...]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
I’ve been preaching for a while that the old, closed brand management model based on awareness, reach and frequency is dead. The shift to all things digital is rapidly changing the advertising business to a new paradigm – based on open brand stewardship, insights, impact and most of all ENGAGEMENT. This same shift is taking [...]
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