Rafael Urbina Quintero, CEO and Chairman of Vix, discusses the company's global audience, which focuses on Hispanic and Latin American communities across the world.
Urbina-Quintero discusses how the platform has changed since its 1999 founding, now focused on reaching audiences through video and mobile. We discuss how that platform seeks to bring audiences information of the moment, but does not claim to be a news site like Buzzfeed or NBC.
Instead, the focus is on engaging millennials through various lifestyle brands that generate cross-platform engagement.
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