Service 04

Translating isn't the same as speaking to someone.

There are more than sixty million Spanish speakers in the United States and an enormous number of brands that want to sell to them. Almost all of them try by translating the English campaign. It shows, and it doesn't convert.

Why the usual approach fails

A literal translation keeps the words and loses the point. Humor doesn't travel, references don't mean the same thing, and register — when to be formal and when not — shifts completely depending on where the person is from.

U.S. agencies don't have the voice. Latin American agencies don't have dollar operations, and don't understand the Hispanic who has lived in Houston for twenty years and thinks half in each language. That gap is the one we occupy.

How we work this market

01

Cultural adaptation, not translation

It gets rewritten from intent, not from text. Sometimes the best Spanish version shares not a single phrase with the English one.

02

Native voice with accent judgment

Neutral for pan-American campaigns; Caribbean, Mexican or Rioplatense when the segment calls for it. Carlos directs that decision with twenty-five years of craft behind him.

03

Segmentation by origin and generation

A first-generation Hispanic and their U.S.-born child don't buy alike or consume the same media. Treating them as one block is the most expensive mistake.

04

Campaigns and funnels in both languages

Two versions that coexist, are measured separately and each optimized on its own data.

05

Operations in dollars

Billing, ad spend and reporting in the currency and standards your U.S. business already works with.

06

Compliance and sensitivity

What can be said, and how, changes by state and sector. It gets reviewed before publishing, not after.

Who it's for

  • U.S. brands that want to enter the Hispanic market and don't know where to start.
  • Latino businesses already established in the U.S. communicating in two languages who want both to sound equally good.
  • Spanish-speaking experts selling into the United States and billing in dollars.

Our advantage, stated plainly

We are Colombians with U.S. operations, and one of the partners is a Spanish dubbing actor with a twenty-five-year career. That isn't a capability you hire: it's the reason this agency exists.

Are you speaking to sixty million people in a borrowed language?

The application takes under three minutes and we'll tell you frankly whether we can help.

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