Continuing with our Special Coverage: The Best of 2012, with which PRODU Hispanic Publicidad highlights the Hispanic markets most promising trends last year, we could not fail to include the leading role Latinos have taken in the use of social networks and what that means for connecting brands with consumers.According to eMarketer studies, an estimated 68.5 percent of Hispanic Internet users visited a social network page at least once every month in 2012 – several percentage points higher than among all users of the Internet. And to do so, they used every kind of platform available.Gian Fulgoni, chairman of comScore who talked with PRODU after attending the Festival of Media LatAm 2012 in Miami, agreed that the Hispanic market has seen some powerful online growth, especially in news, entertainment, multimedia and social networks.In the Digital Hispanic Consumer survey taken by IAB, Hispanics show tremendous growth in the interactive digital market. Some 46 percent of Hispanics go shopping online vs. 43 percent of the general public, while 36 percent read content and post their comments in comparison with 28 percent of the general public.Mauricio Sabogal, global CEO of BPN, the media agency of IPG Mediabrands, noted how vital it is for media networks to be of some specific use to the consumer if they are to survive. 2013 will be a year of consolidation for social networks. That has already begun, but they have to be consolidated at the revenue-generating level. Not all that exist today will survive.
Lo mejor de 2012: Se confirmó incremento en la inversión publicitaria online
Lo mejor de 2012: Tercer año consecutivo de contenido hispano en el Cannes Lions Daily News
Lo mejor de 2012: Nació MundoFox una nueva posibilidad en el mercado hispano
Lo mejor de 2012: FIAP se muda a Miami, cuna de la diversidad cultural latina