Monday, August 10, 2015

12810: Just The Facts, Gringo.

Advertising Age published its 2015 Hispanic Fact Pack; however, the “facts” are debatable.

Hispanic Fact Pack Fact: Marketers continue to boost spending in the U.S. Hispanic media market, with 2014 advertising outlays growing by 12.0%, far ahead of the estimated 4.9% growth for overall U.S. major-media ad spending. Reality Check Fact: Increasing crumbs by 12.0% still results in crumbs, and non-White efforts remain underfunded, underrepresented and underappreciated.

Hispanic Fact Pack Fact: Rivalries are heating up. In two of the biggest recent account moves, Sprint is moving to Omnicom Group-controlled Alma after a Hispanic pitch and AT&T, the No. 2 spender, is now at Omnicom’s Dieste after leaving its previous agency, WPP’s Bravo Group. Reality Check Fact: The true rivalries are happening between White holding companies, and the Latino shops are treated like puppets, peons and piñatas.

Hispanic Fact Pack Fact: In the 50 largest U.S. Hispanic agencies’ ranking, Lopez Negrete Communications’ 26.3% revenue growth to $42.3 million moved the independent agency into the top slot from No. 2 after a steady climb over the past decade from No. 7 in the 2005 Hispanic Fact Pack. Reality Check Fact: The top Latino shop records revenue at $42.3 million, while the top White advertising agency—BBDO—records revenue at $552 million. ‘Nuff said.

Hispanic Fact Pack Fact: One venerable Hispanic agency, Publicis-owned Bromley Communications, closed in August 2015 after 34 years. Reality Check Fact: Bromley Communications was the top Latino shop only 10 years ago.

Hispanic Fact Pack Fact: Hispanics continue to account for nearly half of the U.S. population growth since the 2010 Census, and now account for 17.4% of the population, or 55.4 million people. Reality Check Fact: Latinos account for roughly 9.25% of the U.S. advertising industry population. But even that figure is questionable, as White holding companies refuse to disclose EEO-1 data to compare against the U.S. Census data—plus, any EEO-1 data would probably be inflated by hires from Brazil, Spain and custodial services.

2 comments:

vivatejascabrones said...

Here's a fact check.

While spending on Hispanic consumers is growing, spending on Hispanic ad agencies is shriveling. The industry is dying. See Bromley Advertising folding.

White agencies don't want to hire anyone from Hispanic ad agencies in the US, they only want to hire Brazilians and Spaniards and foreigners.

White clients don't or can't tell the difference or don't care. To save money they moved all their money for Hispanic advertising to Total Market. So now big white agencies with their all white teams do all the work, and a rent-a-Spaniard or rent-a-translator steps in at the last minute to add some Spanish text, or a couple of dark haired white people (but never any afrolatin@s, god forbid) to the photo shoot, and call it a day.

The collateral damage is hundreds of actual Latin@s in the US nationwide who saw their jobs disappear, and are getting laughed out of white ad agencies. Ask everyone from Bromley looking for a job.

Why is this a big deal? Because there are hardly any Latin@s in white ad agencies to begin with. The only significant number not working recepcionist and janitorial jobs, and yes the white agencies are counting those as diversity hires, are in the Hispanic agencies.

Correction, WERE in the Hispanic agencies.

And if you want to experience real racism in an American ad agency, Brazilians, foreigners and Spaniards don't even pretend to care. That's how you get gems like this http://multicultclassics.blogspot.com/2014/08/11966-dominos-delivers-stereotypes.html and this http://multicultclassics.blogspot.com/2015/01/12416-global-cultural-cluelessness.html

danner_planner said...

Jesus christ. 46 foreign H1B workers at a single Hispanic ad agency? How is this not news in AdAge or adweek? That is not normal.

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Latinworks-Marketing/786816.htm

There is like 200 foreign visas in just the first few agencies in that AdAge report! Is this why they are OK with black canibal ads, no one can tell that is wrong in America?

If there aren’t enough Hispanics to hire them from the US, and there are no Hispanics in general market ad agencies, then where the hella re they?

LatinWorks 46 H1B visas
Lopez Negrete 22 H1B visas
Conill 22 H1B visas
Dieste 21 H1B visas
Marca 14 H1B visas
Bravo Group 13 H1B visas
Alma 11 H1B visas
The Community aka La Comunidad 9 H1B visas
Casanova Pendrill 5 H1B visas
Zubi Advertising 5 H1B visas