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The Biggest Media Shift You’re Not Paying Attention To: Lat Am

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Ben Odell
Mar 24, 2025
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Look at the numbers. Latin American YouTubers and digital creators aren’t just pulling massive audiences—they’re annihilating traditional media.

When Kimberly Loaiza drops a new TikTok, it gets more views in 24 hours than an entire season of a primetime Televisa show.

Every time Luisito Comunica visits a new country, his vlogs routinely rack up millions of views—often surpassing the total lifetime audience of major Latin American travel series within days.

Peso Pluma built a music empire off TikTok, topping global charts before most executives even knew who he was.

The Old Power Structure is Crumbling

I started my career in Latin America. While my friends moved to Hollywood, chasing the dream at what was then the undisputed center of entertainment, I wrote TV shows and movies in Colombia.

To me, there was something more exciting—more challenging—about making a hit in a language I had just learned, inside a culture so different from my own. But the reality was clear: no matter how high th…

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