by Vaquero | May 4, 2026 | Branding & Positioning, Emotional Marketing, Event Marketing, Global Marketing Strategy, Influencer Marketing
If you work in brand strategy and you weren’t paying attention to The Devil Wears Prada 2 this weekend, you should have been. Not because of the cerulean monologue. Not because of Meryl Streep. Because of what the brand machine surrounding that film reveals...
by Vaquero | Apr 27, 2026 | Cultural Insights, Emotional Marketing, Hispanic Marketing, Multicultural Marketing, Seasonal Marketing
Cinco de Mayo is one week out. And right on schedule, brands are spinning up their Cinco de Mayo content, you know, margarita graphics, “¡Feliz Cinco!” copy, references to Mexico, a green-white-and-red color palette. Most of it will miss. Not because the...
by Vaquero | Apr 20, 2026 | Cultural Insights, Emotional Marketing, Hispanic Marketing, Multicultural Marketing
At Vaquero, we study campaigns that get Latino marketing right — not to hand out participation trophies, but because the work that works is worth understanding. When a brand earns genuine trust with Hispanic consumers, there’s almost always a clear reason why....
by Vaquero | Apr 13, 2026 | Branding & Positioning, Cultural Insights, Event Marketing, Hispanic Marketing, Multicultural Marketing, Strategy & Insights
This weekend, something happened at Coachella that the marketing world should be paying very close attention to. On Sunday, April 12, Karol G became the first Latin woman to headline Coachella in the festival’s 27-year history (Bain, Billboard, 2026). Not the...
by Vaquero | Mar 23, 2026 | Branding & Positioning, Cultural Insights, Hispanic Marketing, Multicultural Marketing, Strategy & Insights
There’s a lot of conversation in marketing about diversity. What gets talked about less is the science behind it — the research that tells us what tends to work, what tends to backfire, and why patterns keep repeating themselves. At Vaquero, we live in that...
