CALL FOR ENTRIES
2025 HMC Hispanic Market Guide
Special Report
For Círculo Creativo USA 2025 Agency Members and hmc members ONLY
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE
APRIL 11, 2025
Círculo Creativo USA and the Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) invite all agencies to submit their best work of the year to be featured in the Creative section of the prestigious Hispanic Guide developed by HMC.
This is a unique opportunity to showcase outstanding creative excellence in the Hispanic market. Your agency must be a member of Círculo Creativo and HMC to be eligible.
Don’t miss this chance to gain industry recognition. Submit your work today!
TECHNICAL SPECS FOR SUBMISSIONS
ALL ENTRIES
Please send your best advertising campaign or commercial, only one campaign or commercial per agency. We will showcase only one campaign or commercial per agency in the special report.
Mandatory / Executive Summary 200 words - PDF Format (English)
Please provide a summary of your case submission. Please summarize the overall strategic underpinning of your case. Layout the core case components of challenge, insight, execution and results. Establish key highlights of the client’s objectives, your key discoveries and insights, your campaign idea and the executions, and your campaign performance.
Please include the agency contact information (Name, Title, email, phone) and JPG Thumbnails in High Resolution for all videos/campaigns.
Optional:
Definition of your challenge 250 words
Explain how your perspective helped frame your client’s/brand’s core problem. What were key obstacles for success, what was your strategically defined core target audience, and what measurable objectives did you set?
The Key Insight & Strategy 250 words
Present the key tenets of your brief and strategy. Briefly explain the rationale for your communication insight.
Execution 250 words
Describe your core creative, program or platform idea.
Results 250 words
What measurable and quantifiable success did the campaign drive?
Send a WeTransfer, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, or download site link with all your files to: paco@circulocreativo.org
Subject Line: ENTRY SUBMISSION HMC 2025 Hispanic Market Guide Special Report
Deadline: April 11, 2025 (FIRM)
FEES
No additional fees. However, the agency must be an Agency Member of Círculo Creativo USA and HMC in 2025. Individual memberships cannot participate in this event. In addition, we reserve the right to publish or not publish any Content you submit. Submission does not guarantee publication.
Not a member yet? You can join or renew your 2025 Agency Membership at https://www.circulocreativo.org/membership
and
HMC website
CREDITS
In a PDF document:
Agency Credits
Ad Title
Client
Production Company Credits
Post Production Company Credits
FILM / VIDEO
MP4 1080p HD File
JPG Thumbnails in High Resolution for all videos
No slates, clocks or freezes can be included in your film/video
PRESS / OUTDOOR
JPG or PNG of proof
Minimum pixel size: 1,500
DIGITAL/SOCIAL/CYBER/MOBILE
PDF document with URL leading directly to website/microsite or app (eg: app iTunes) or mobile website
JPG for all social media Campaigns in high resolution
RADIO
MP3 format
Minimum Bit Rate: 320 kbps
Submissions Agreement
Thank you for your interest in contributing content to us. We are looking forward to receiving your submission. By submitting any content to us, you agree to be bound by this agreement and agree that all information in your submission will be transferred to us. If you do not agree to this agreement, do not send us any content.
“Content” means any advertising campaigns, ads, images, text, or other materials that you submit to us for consideration for publication on the Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) 2025 Hispanic Market Guide, HMC's website and Círculo Creativo USA's website. We reserve the right to publish or not publish any Content you submit. Submission does not guarantee publication. We may also publish without restriction other material on the same or similar topic as your Content. All Content submitted for publication is subject to editing. Publication Date: June 2025.
Who may submit Content
Any Agency Member of Círculo Creativo USA and HMC in 2025. Individual Memberships cannot participate in this event. Not a member? You can join or renew your Agency Membership at https://www.circulocreativo.org/membership and HMC website
Submission Process & Information
When you submit Content to us, you must provide us with accurate and complete information. If we need to contact you regarding your submission, we may contact you via the email address, telephone number, or address you provide.
Please send your best advertising campaign or commercial. We will showcase only one campaign or commercial per agency in the special creativity report.
Licenses
You acknowledge and agree that access to the Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) and Círculo Creativo USA, as a platform for expression and potential exposure to HMC readers is valuable consideration. In exchange for this value you grant us the following licenses. (1) By submitting your Content to us, you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, irrevocable license to use, publish, reproduce, modify, adapt, license, sublicense, distribute (and permit re-distribution of), sell, perform, translate, and display your Content (including any information, drawings, images, sounds, video recordings, or other data embedded in your Content and including adaptations or derivative works based on your Content) for any purpose, in any language, and in any manner or medium – whether now existing or developed in the future (the “Rights”). You retain ownership of the copyright in your Content, subject to the Rights granted to us. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to (a) edit your Content, (b) supplement or co-mingle your Content with our trade names, trademarks, and service marks and with content provided by us or by third parties, (c) remove your Content from the Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) 2022 Hispanic Market Guide, HMC's website and Círculo Creativo USA's website, and (d) benefit commercially from your Content.
No Compensation
You will not be paid for your Content.
Miscellaneous
You acknowledge that there is no partnership, joint venture, employment, consulting or other such relationship between you or us (each a “Party” and together the “Parties”). This is the entire agreement between the Parties. The terms of this Agreement are binding upon, and will inure to the benefit of the Parties, including their respective licensees, successors, and assigns. We may assign, license or transfer any or all of the Rights you have granted to us to any other person or entity. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, there are no third-party beneficiaries to the Agreement.