Hasta La Creative!

Marketing to American Latinos is more than merely translating an ad and adding a more Latino-looking figure. It begins with the understanding that Latinos are multilateral and can be spoken to in English, Spanish or Spanglish. I saw many examples of this in the time that I spent working as a creative in a Hispanic advertising agency in New York. There I met Asians, redheads, Venezuelans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans and more who joined together and spoke an amalgamated language of different accents, all with the same fervor and passion for the industry. The fervor that these people have displayed for their work has also in a sense trapped them. I know firsthand that there is this concern among creatives that they will be pigeonholed into Hispanic advertising if they dabble in it long enough.