Latino movie marketing

Posted on: August 18th, 2006
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“When Warner Bros. Pictures rolled out its marketing campaign for Richard Donner’s Bruce Willis starrer “16 Blocks,” a March release, industry observers might have noticed an unusual twist in certain commercials: The language switched from English to Spanish within a single 30-second advertisement.

“The title cards (words featured in graphics) were in Spanish, and the voice-overs were in English,” Warners vp targeted marketing Viviana Pendrill says. “The voice-over was in Spanglish, and we ran that in general-market television. We used a radio personality from one of these urban stations who is bilingual; you had to pay attention to realize he was switching languages.”"

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