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le="box-sizing:inherit"></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://variety.com/2014/tv/news/is-madison-avenue-leaving-america-behind-1201091740/" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:inherit;border-bottom:0.125rem solid rgb(255,243,184)">Madison Avenue has in recent years broadened the content of its commercials to match changing U.S. demographics.</a> In decades past, seeing anything but a Caucasian male or female pitching a car or a can of soda might have been shocking. Ads in recent years, however, have featured same-sex couples, marriages between people of different races or creeds and people with physical challenges.  It’s the latest signal that advertisers are grappling to keep up with an American consumer base that has become increasingly diverse.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">Various marketers have tested ads featuring snippets of different languages for general audiences. <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/coca-cola-pulls-super-bowl-commercials-2019-1203116744/" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:inherit;border-bottom:0.125rem solid rgb(255,243,184)">Coca-Cola did it to memorable effect in 2014</a> with a Super Bowl commercial featuring the voices of children singing “America the Beautiful” in seven different languages. CBS has run Spanish-language ads in the past during events such as the Grammys, according to a person familiar with the matter.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">Most TV networks will consider running ads in different languages, according to people familiar with their policies. NBCUniversal and Viacom, for example, evaluate commercials on a case-by-case basis.  Fox Broadcasting does the same, along with whether to require the use of subtitles. CBS wants to ensure a viewer can understand an ad’s message, no matter what the language used, the person familiar with the matter said.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">There’s good reason for Disney to woo Spanish-language advertising. Marketers put approximately $5.7 billion into Spanish-language TV in 2018, according to Kantar, a tracker of ad spending That figure compares to $5.6 billion in 2017 and $6 billion in 2016. Among the biggest supporters of the medium are telecommunications advertisers and auto marketers, including Dish Network, Sprint and Nissan.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit"></p><div class="gmail-admz" id="gmail-adm-inline-article-ad-2" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:1.25rem auto;text-align:center"><div class="gmail-adma gmail-google-publisher" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-pmc-adm-goog-pub-div gmail-ad-text" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div id="gmail-gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article2-uid1" class="gmail-ad-rotatable gmail-adw-300 gmail-adh-250" style="box-sizing:inherit"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_3782/Variety/ros/mid-article2_0__container__" style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0pt none;display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px"><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv898890" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv161686" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv742000" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv329674" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv629669" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv664644" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv629121" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv213265" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv443116" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv771326" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv140858" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div><div id="gmail-moatPxDiv546084" style="box-sizing:inherit;width:0px;height:0px"></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing:inherit"></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">And yet, advertisers seeking Spanish-speaking customers aren’t likely to abandon Spanish-language outlets like Univision or NBCUniversal’s Telemundo. “Advertising in Spanish is still most efficiently done via Spanish language programming,” says Larry Chiagouris, a professor of marketing at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business. But “when the size of the audience matters, English language networks can be very advantageous” because their programs tend to draw bigger crowds.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">Running ads in Spanish can help make a commercial more meaningful to some of the viewers who see it, says Verizon’s Scotti. “My hope is some of the archaic rules that still exist in the marketplace around use of subtitles that are very rigid would eventually change for the whole industry,” he says. “I think the whole world needs to think differently about what advertisers can do.” Verizon spent nearly $1.13 billion on advertising inventory in 2017, according to Kantar, and around $765.6 million in the first nine months of 2018.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">Disney’s Ferro has noticed more programming segments in which Spanish is used naturally, such as the appearance of the Mexican rock band Mana on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” Some advertisers run ads with Spanish in them on ABC’s owned-and-operated stations, she adds.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">She does not anticipate running commercial breaks with ads hawking their wares entirely in Spanish, But she does see reason for letting advertisers have greater flexibility when the occasion seems appropriate. Disney has in recent months worked to help some of its sponsors run content that is tailored for a specific appearance. ABC, for example, has <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/procter-gamble-blackish-tv-advertising-abc-1202664501/" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:inherit;border-bottom:0.125rem solid rgb(255,243,184)">let Procter & Gamble work a product into the plot of an episode of “black-ish”</a> and helped Clorox Co.’s Hidden Valley Ranch weave a real-life commercial <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/a-million-little-things-hidden-valley-ranch-abc-advertising-1203116875/" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:inherit;border-bottom:0.125rem solid rgb(255,243,184)">into one of the segments of “A Million Little Things.”</a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit">“I think commercials can tell great stories,” says Ferro. “And you can fully understand the message when you have one that’s inspired and super simple.”</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>