By Damian Davila, on June 23rd, 2010
According to Dr. Korzenny from the Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication at the Florida State University, when compared to other ethnicities, U.S. Latinos appear to consume more digital content.
Therefore, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that U.S. Latinos is part of the recovery in advertising spending worldwide.
Hispanics make up 12.3% of the total US Internet population in 2009, and that number will increase to 13.9% in 2013. The U.S. Latino presence in the Internet is not only going to increase in quantity but also in quality as U.S. Latino Internet users are poised to have the highest purchasing power.
A company that is truly aware of this trend is Microsoft with its current Bing TV ads called ‘Los Links’.
Continue reading Los Links Son Malos
By Damian Davila, on April 28th, 2010
Given that E-mail Permission Marketing: it works!, at idaconcpts, we’ve discussed about E-mail Permission Marketing Fundamentals and how to get started with your e-mail permission marketing campaign.
After you’ve learned how to Measure the CTR of Your E-mail Permission Marketing Campaign with Google Analytics, you will need some email marketing benchmarks by industry to be able to properly evaluate the performance of your campaigns.
On July 2009, eMarketer provided a list of e-mail marketing open and click-through rates worldwide by industry and list size. Here’s an important update to these e-mail stats via Mailchimp.
Continue reading Average Email Campaign Stats of MailChimp Customers by Industry
By Damian Davila, on August 26th, 2009
In June 2009, I posted a slide show presentation trying to answer the question “Does Digital Media Advertising Make $en$e?“, which used some examples such as Google’s Picasa and Skitch to provide insights into this topic.
Does Digital Media Advertising Make $en$e?
Recently eMarketer released the results of a survey of 211 [...]
By Damian Davila, on August 14th, 2009
For career sites, there’s no business like the recession business!
With the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting an over 9% unemployment rate in June 2009, it appears that job search sites will continue to show an accelerated growth during this economic recession.
On August 6th, 2009 eMarketer reported that more than [...]
By Damian Davila, on July 13th, 2009
In June 30, 2009, we reviewed at idaconcpts that talking about Latinos as a group is difficult because this group has so many commonalities with various ethnic groups, that trying to seggregate websites between Latino and non-Latino is a strategy that spells disaster.
According to Dr. Korzenny from the Center for Hispanic Marketing [...]
By Damian Davila, on July 9th, 2009
Welcome back!
Back in March 2009, we reviewed how to measure the click-through rate (CTR) of your e-mail permission marketing campaign with Google Analytics, so I believe it would be very useful to now provide you a benchmark to compare your collected CTRs. For Internet startups, these will be critical benchmarks.
Earlier this July [...]
By Damian Davila, on July 8th, 2009
Ladies, grab your Wiimote!
eMarketer projects $443 million will go toward in-game advertising spending this year in the US. But marketers should take note that women make up a substantial portion of the audience for that advertising.
Video gaming has grown increasingly popular among older players, other demographic groups and particularly [...]

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