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Everything aligned for Major League Soccer to make deals with ESPN, Fox and Univision worth $90 million annually from 2015 to 2022.
Univision is launching a digital arm called La Fabrica, a Spanish and English-language initiative that will produce original Web video series. While Boris Gartner, vp of La Fabrica, told Adweek that brand sponsors were lined up, he wouldn't disclose names.
However, his team's first program, Medicina Desconocida (translates as Strange Medicine), has six 23-minute episodes already live, and 15-second pre-roll ads for Kmart appear before each video. (There will be six more episodes of the drama available in two weeks.) So retail appears to be a category Gartner's sales division is targeting for the endeavor.
A dedicated staff in New York and Miami is expected to create, script and produce several other series in the coming weeks.
"We believe there's a need in the market in terms of content for Hispanic digital natives," the vp said. "La Fabrica expands on our initiatives from the past couple of years."
It is designed to complement Univision's other multimedia, millennial-focused efforts such as UVideos (user-generated vids), Flama (English-language video content) and Uforia (digital music). Univision subsidiary, Fusion, will carry La Fabrica's English-language versions of its shows.
"There's a need for long-form content in digital," Gartner said. "There are a couple other initiatives we will be launching in Q2, which will entail articles and galleries but will be mostly video."
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The shopping network and Spanish language TV network have signed a three-year deal to increase sales to Hispanic consumers.
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Mr. Conde, who has been the president of Univision’s networks division since 2009, is joining a rival, the parent of Telemundo.
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The channel, a joint venture of ABC News and Univision, has broadened its target audience to include millennials as well as bilingual Latinos.
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A Spanish-language version of “Rape in the Fields,” about sexual assault of migrant farm and packing plant workers, will be shown on Univision.
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A look back at what television executives offered Madison Avenue for the 2013-14 season.
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A roundup of what worked — and what didn’t — in the 2012-13 television schedules, and what to expect from the coming upfronts.
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Univision and many other television networks and channels aimed at Hispanics made their presentations to advertisers for the coming fall season.
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CBS Interactive and Univision Communications are among the companies seeking advertising dollars from Madison Avenue.
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