In this comprehensive one hour webinar, Christopher illustrated how the recent growth in Latino consumer markets impact search engine marketers and where to draw best practices to target this demographic. Christopher also discussed the challenges of engaging the diverse US Hispanic market in each market area. I really enjoyed the webinar because it shows the growing value of online Hispanic content while at the same time how it can be produced and searched. One of the main difficulties that I came across with my research with Hispanic online media is how to produce the right SEO keywords for the Spanish speaking market. Christopher and Joe really did a great job introducing CNN as a case study of overcoming this challenge. Some of the information that I copied is listed below.
94% of US Hispanics who watch online video visit YouTube
93% of US Hispanics use mobile phones regularly
70% of US Hispanics use their mobile phones for online search
The US is the 6th largest Spanish speaking country
Univision won the the Saturday night ratings
CNN en Español received high profit margins during the recession
If content is king, language is queen
Quality of execution is relevant
Don’t just translate English to Spanish, recreate the content from scratch. “trans-adaptation”
I interviewed Joe after the webinar and he was very insightful of the content that was presented:
Do you feel that Mr. Crommett’s SEM strategy for CNN en Español should be the footprint for all businesses to adopt when reaching the online US Hispanic market?
CNN en español set the benchmark for how Spanish-language media companies can appeal to as wide an audience as possible. We all know that the Hispanic market is a complex and diverse one, with many countries of origin and variations of the Spanish language represented. Yet, CNN en español brought the Hispanic community together with many connective threads including Latino pride, heritage, culture, language, faith and family.
Mr. Crommett’s SEM strategy en español presentation outlined how Spanish-language content companies can utilize a “universal Spanish” to appeal to the highly diverse U.S. Hispanic audience and even expand into Latin American. The key to his success as the franchise’s founder was hiring the right people, establishing a team environment, and putting quality systems in place. For example, terms or phrases could be “tested” instantly by an ad hoc advisory board of journalists from a broad cross-section of Latin American countries. Each “country” represented had “veto power” with clarity was paramount. CNN en español created a constantly-evolving online style manual.
Do you think Hispanic online content production is still at a young stage where extensive research needs to be undertaken when compared to English content?
Absolutely. Do a search for nearly any term in Spanish and the results reflect an overall lack of content en español. Many sites from Spain show up in the results because the online advertising investment there is 3x greater than it is in either the U.S. Hispanic market or Mexico. Therefore, U.S. publishers and marketers have an opportunity to build social connections and trust with consumers if they create localized and culturally customized content for the web or mobile devices.
If you want to see the presentation you can still access the Lion Bridge webinar by registering. So what are your thoughts about the changing landscape of Hispanic online media? Do you think information can now be accessed alot more or do you believe that there’s still more content development that needs to be done? If you did see this webinar, what are your own thoughts about Christopher’s presentation? The first to comment about this blog will receive a free copy of Joe Kutchera’s Latino Link.
OMG, this might be the sort of thing I need to get myself a bit more involved and informed with. I work for a local TV Network in New York, and we have been working over a year in this Spanish product for two of the regions of the network. And we have many many challenges, but some of the topics like the language, and the correct platform are two of the main topics we are constantly discussing.
Is the Lion Bridge Seminar for free?
This is a very interesting to me. due to the fact that I am hispanic but not much spanish speaking. grew up in a household of american hispanic. I work in a medical family practice office and I have only a hand full of spanish speaking patients. I get by with medical spanish speaking. but it would work out great if there were CNN spanish tv channels. There needs to be more topics on healthcare, on keeping up with diabetes for spanish speaking. It would be great if it were on CNN television. that is the big topic in the medical field. spanish is moving faster than ever online and socially.
OMG, this might be the sort of thing I need to get myself a bit more involved and informed with. I work for a local TV Network in New York, and we have been working over a year in this Spanish product for two of the regions of the network. And we have many many challenges, but some of the topics like the language, and the correct platform are two of the main topics we are constantly discussing.
Is the Lion Bridge Seminar for free?
This is a very interesting to me. due to the fact that I am hispanic but not much spanish speaking. grew up in a household of american hispanic. I work in a medical family practice office and I have only a hand full of spanish speaking patients. I get by with medical spanish speaking. but it would work out great if there were CNN spanish tv channels. There needs to be more topics on healthcare, on keeping up with diabetes for spanish speaking. It would be great if it were on CNN television. that is the big topic in the medical field. spanish is moving faster than ever online and socially.
To all, I moderated the talk and you can also find it here on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/27206516