Hispanic Clout Changes Ad Landscape

Multicultural shops face a downside

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The sorry state of the economy has eaten up hours of talk at Advertising Week. But in the good news column—for some agencies, anyway—there’s this: ad spend targeting Hispanics has yet to slow down.

The 2010 U.S. Census laid bare what the industry has known for a while: the demographic is exploding. Hispanic consumers now number 50 million—or 1 in 6 Americans—accounting for more than half of the nation’s increase in total population.

So, while growth in general-market advertising is slowing, marketing expenditures targeting Hispanics continue upwards, albeit not at the double-digit increases seen before the recession.

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