Here’s What’s Driving Latin America’s Rank As The World’s Fastest-Growing Region For Venture Funding
January 21, 2022Joanna Glasner, Crunchbase For Latin American startups, 2021 was an extraordinary year on the funding front. Venture and technology growth investors poured an estimated $19.5 billion into the region, per Crunchbase data. That’s more than triple prior year levels, which were themselves record-setting. By global benchmarks, it was a particularly impressive showing. Latin America was… View Article
Read More...Six Ways To Market To Hispanic Consumers
October 26, 2021Donald Williams Forbes Councils Member Author, “Eat What You Kill,” CEO of Williams Accounting & Consulting, and Suivant Consulting Successful business owners understand the importance of marketing. For many companies, good marketing strategies can mean the difference between struggling to make ends meet and thriving. It’s not enough, however, to just throw money into a marketing… View Article
Read More...Key facts about U.S. Latinos for National Hispanic Heritage Month
September 9, 2021By Jens Manuel Krogstad and Luis Noe-Bustamante National Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins each year on Sept. 15, celebrates U.S. Latinos, their culture and their history. Started in 1968 by Congress as Hispanic Heritage Week, it was expanded to a month in 1988. The celebration begins in the middle rather than the start of September… View Article
Read More...Latin America Ecommerce Forecast 2021
July 14, 2021Executive Summary While 2020 will go down in history as one of the most tumultuous years for Latin America’s retail industry, it will also be remembered as the year when the region became the world’s fastest-growing retail ecommerce market. How did the coronavirus pandemic impact total retail sales in Latin America? Physical store closures, coupled… View Article
Read More...How to Reach the Hispanic Market in 2021
May 13, 2021As the largest minority market in the country, reaching the Hispanic market is key to unlocking business opportunities no matter which industry you’re in. From auto, real estate, beauty, legal services, and more, Latino consumers are a powerful force to be reckoned with. Keep reading to learn how to reach the Hispanic market in 2021… View Article
Read More...Jake Beniflah Talks About The Big Shift To Multicultural Media And Advertising
January 25, 2021Get ready for seismic changes in multicultural media and advertising, says Dr. Jake Beniflah. Changing demography, emerging technologies and fragmenting distribution systems are transforming the media and advertising industries. Yet marketing to U.S. Hispanics continues to lag, says Beniflah, executive director of the Center for Multicultural Science, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research think tank. He argues… View Article
Read More...The $2.6 Trillion U.S. Latino Market: The Largest And Fastest Growing Blindspot Of The American Economy
September 27, 2020The U.S. Latino market is “growing GDP at 8.6%, faster than China, faster than India, and nobody talks about it,” said Sol Trujillo, Co-Founder of L’Attitude, to a panel of world renowned journalists and economists. Per the recently published 2020 LDC U.S. Latino GDP Report, the size of the U.S. Latino market measured by GDP… View Article
Read More...Hispanic Digital Marketing News: The Top 6 Trends you Need to know in 2020
April 28, 2020As the U.S. becomes an increasingly multicultural country, businesses are recognizing the importance of multicultural marketing to reach this rapidly growing population. While this type of marketing used to be seen as optional, it’s becoming more and more essential for marketing campaigns to include multicultural marketing segments especially as major officials, brands, and industries are… View Article
Read More...U.S. Hispanic Population Reaches 60 Million- U.S. Census
January 31, 2020In September 1968, Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to proclaim National Hispanic Heritage Week to recognize the rich culture and contributions of Americans who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America and Spanish-speaking nations of the Caribbean. Just two decades later, lawmakers expanded the observance to a month long celebration, stretching… View Article
Read More...WHY LATIN AMERICA IS BECOMING THE WORLD’S NEXT TECHNOLOGY MEGA-HUB
January 15, 2020By: Yuan Li | Mar 18, 2019 SoftBank recently announced their new US$5 billion Latin America-focused venture capital fund, the SoftBank Innovation Fund. The fund has a $2 billion commitment from SoftBank itself and is set to invest in tech startups throughout the Latin America region, covering areas like e-commerce, digital financial services, healthcare, mobility and insurance…. View Article
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