Hispanic Fact Pack

Data on marketers, advertisers, media, demographics and agencies in the U.S. Hispanic market. Hispanic market leaders include Procter & Gamble, People en Espanol, Univision, Dieste, Vidal Partnership. Also includes Ad Age's extensive ranking of Top U.S. Hispanic Media Agencies.

July 26th, 2009

By Ad Age DataCenter

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Hispanic Fact Pack

Data on the U.S. Hispanic market from Azteca to Zubi

The U.S. Hispanic market eked out 1.9% growth in 2008 to $4 billion in measured media as U.S. ad spending in general fell by 4.1%, but 2009 is a tougher year for everyone.

In the first quarter of 2009, spending on Spanish-language TV fell by 15.4%, and print media saw even steeper drops of 20.5% for Spanish-language magazines and 21.6% for Spanish-language newspapers, according to WPP's TNS Media Intelligence. Overall, TNS reported a 14.2% fall in U.S. ad spending in the first quarter of 2009, following a 9.2% decline in the fourth quarter of 2008.

Advertising Age's sixth annual Hispanic Fact Pack includes data about marketers' 2008 ad spending by company and category, demographic trends, and rankings of top TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, online media and social networking sites. Ad Age's exclusive ranking of the top 50 U.S. Hispanic agencies shows most shops had a relatively good 2008, with just seven posting a drop in revenue.

An exclusive ranking of the top Hispanic media agencies reveals one of the anomalies of the market: Many big Hispanic ad agencies remain full-service shops with media departments that continue to plan and buy media for their clients. Even so, media specialist agencies are making inroads and capturing a growing share of Hispanic media buys.

Spending by the top 50 Hispanic advertisers fluctuated last year as telecommunications replaced automotive as the highest-spending category in Hispanic media, climbing by 17% on ad budgets from Verizon Communications, AT&T, Sprint Nextel Corp. and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile. Automotive plunged by 20.1% as most automakers slashed their spending in 2008, especially in the fourth quarter.

As the pilot of newspapers and magazines worsened, the print edition of New York daily Hoy closed, leaving just an Hoy website to compete with New York's leading Spanish-language newspaper, El Diario La Prensa. Time Inc. at the end of 2008 folded SI Latino, a six-times-a-year Spanish-language spinoff of Sports Illustrated, and Reader's Digest in June 2009 shuttered its U.S. Hispanic edition, Selecciones.

In January 2009, Univision Communications and its main program provider, Mexican media giant Grupo Televisa, negotiated a settlement in mid-trial over long-running disputes regarding a 25-year-long programming agreement that runs until 2017. Televisa got more money, and Univision secured its supply of hit novelas and other shows. Still to come: A federal judge is to decide in summer 2009 whether U.S. digital rights to Televisa prorgrams aired in the U.S. belong to Univision or Televisa.

-Laurel Wentz

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