Marketers seem to be missing the ball. Madison Avenue and its chronic lack of cultural awareness and representation are evident in the 2012 Super Bowl ads. Blacks and Hispanics can only be seen in the background and as factory or service workers of some type. An online car seller shows a Black buyer a a main character, and a car ad shows a couple of Inuits as main characters, other than that it looks like non-Hispanic Whites own the show along with multiple dogs and polar bears.
Read the entire article at Dr. Felipe Korzenny’s Blog.
These high profile event ads give credence to the common Latino complaint we hear at FACIL Marketing: “We don’t see ourselves in their advertising.”