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¡QUE
ONDA! Joins Hispanic Digital Network
Texas’ premier
Hispanic entertainment magazine re-launches www.queondamagazine.com,
a partner website of Hispanic Digital Network
HDN increases online
reach in three Texas cities with over 4.5 million Hispanics
Houston, TX--(HISPANIC
PR WIRE)--June 12, 2006--¡QUE ONDA!, the premier bilingual
entertainment publication serving Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and
San Antonio’s growing Hispanic communities, has joined Hispanic
Digital Network (HDN), the nation's first Internet advertising
network of U.S. Hispanic newspapers, magazines and radio stations.
As a member partner
of HDN, ¡QUE ONDA! has re-launched http://www.queondamagazine.com,
an attractive and powerful site to better serve readers and advertisers.
Queondamagazine.com is now optimized to provide visitors with
a richer Internet experience that includes the latest entertainment
news, movie and restaurant reviews, sports, health, immigration,
hyperlocal and national news.
¡QUE ONDA’s!
new website is now part of HDN, a growing network of 73 Hispanic
publication websites. All of HDN’s member sites utilize
HDN’s robust turn-key interactive technology and allow HDN
to represent their online ad sales efforts.
“!QUE ONDA is
proud to be partnering with HDN to serve readers and advertisers
in new and exciting ways,” said Julio G. Esparza, ad manager
of !QUE ONDA! “Our readers and advertisers will immediately
notice the quality and resources available on our new website.”
National and local
online advertisers can now target their ads to readers in any
of Que Onda’s three coverage cities, which together are
home to more than 4.5 million Hispanics. In addition, advertisers
can target ads to specific sections of the www.queondamagazine.com
site such as entertainment, local news and sports. Queondamagazine.com
is also hotwired to enable advertisers to reach viewers with Rich
Media and other cutting-edge ad formats.
“Successful Hispanic
print publications like! QUE ONDA! are seeking ways to create
distinct and powerful experiences on the Internet, to grow their
audiences and to generate new online revenue streams,” said
Bill Gato, president of HDN. “HDN is committed to helping
them achieve this.”
“With Queondamagazine.com,
HDN can now provide national advertisers with increased reach
in three of the top 10 U.S. Hispanic markets – Dallas-Fort
Worth, San Antonio and Houston,” Gato said. “We will
continue to increase our local presence in U.S. Hispanic markets
throughout the country in the months to come.”
Readers desiring the
latest dates and times for concerts and other entertainment events
will be especially pleased with Queondamagazine.com’s top-of-the-line
community calendar section. This section allows readers to view
a comprehensive listing of entertainment events with a Latino
focus all across the U.S. Readers can search events by month,
date and year, up to one year in advance.
The addition of ¡QUE
ONDA! brings the ever-growing network of HDN publication websites
to 73. The other new members include: Esmeralda from New York,
NY, http://www.esmeraldaonline.com; Vida Nueva from Los Angeles,
California, http://www.vida-nueva.com, Dominican Times Magazine
from New York, NY, http://www.dominicantimes.com, Mi Gente from
Charlotte, NC, http://www.migenteweb.com, and Providence en Español
from Providence, RI, http://www.providenceenespanol.com.
About ¡QUE ONDA!
¡QUE ONDA! is
the voice of Houston, Dallas and San Antonio's Hispanic community.
¡QUE ONDA! publishes news and entertainment information
of substance for all Hispanic groups. ¡QUE ONDA! contains
many sections including movies, reviews, food, restaurant, sports,
movies, health features and local and national news. ¡QUE
ONDA! distributes weekly and has a combined audited circulation
of 165,000.
About Hispanic Digital
Network
Miami-based Hispanic
Digital Network (HDN) is the nation's first Internet advertising
network of U.S. Hispanic newspapers, magazines and radio stations.
HDN provides Hispanic-focused publications nationwide that meet
specific qualifications with free, customized news websites, free
web hosting and free ad serving. Launched in December 2003, HDN
has built dynamic websites for over 73 Hispanic newspapers and
magazines, including Chicago’s La Raza (http://www.laraza.com),
Miami’s El Popular (http://www.elpopular.com), Houston’s
Semana (http://www.semananews.com) and San Diego’s El Latino
(http://www.ellatinoonline.com). All of HDN’s websites are
Internet Advertising Bureau-compliant and capable of serving Rich
Media formats (http://www.iab.net). HDN serves the business needs
of Hispanic agencies and advertisers by offering one dedicated
company that can buy sell and manage Internet-only media campaigns
that involve hundreds of small and large Hispanic publications.
HDN also pro!
vides businesses with web design services specializing in customized
projects, database development, corporate identity, Flash animation,
web hosting and Internet marketing. HDN is a sister company of
Hispanic PR Wire (http://www.hispanicprwire.com), LatinClips (http://www.latinclips.com),
ConTexto Latino (http://www.contextolatino.com) and Hispanic Market
Pro (http://www.hispanicmarketpro.com). For more information,
visit HDN’s corporate website at http://www.hdnweb.com or
call 1-866-4-HDN-WEB.
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CONTACT:
Julio G. Esparza
¡QUE ONDA!
(713) 880-1133 Ext. 26
or
Claudia Phillips
Hispanic Digital Network
(305) 971-7989 |
