Photo of two women in red dresses facing each other and holding hands while in the water. The photo was taken as part of a promotion by H&M Communications for the movie the Shape of Water.

Bad Boys For Life Movie Premiere in Miami; Important people in the photo: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, DJ Khalid, directors Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

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About
Us

Independently-owned H&M Communications (H+M) is an award-winning, full-service public relations and cross-cultural marketing consultancy. Dedicated to delivering the unexpected, client partners consistently seek us out and entrust us to tell their story and help drive awareness, growth, and brand love.

Who We
Are

We are a team of strategists, wordsmiths, relationship builders, publicists, storytellers, content creators, and creative problem solvers. Our strength is in our diversity. We see things through a rich cultural lens that informs our approach and adds color and depth to our work.

About Us

Independently-owned H&M Communications (H+M) is an award-winning, full-service public relations and cross-cultural marketing agency. Relentless about delivering the unexpected, client partners consistently seek us out and entrust us to tell their story and help drive awareness, growth, and brand love.

Who We Are

We are a team of strategists, wordsmiths, relationship builders, publicists, storytellers, and creative problem solvers. Our strength is in our diversity. We see things through a rich cultural lens that informs our approach and adds color and depth to our work.

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How We Work

Every client campaign or initiative is built on a solid foundation. Our team has an unmatched ability to turn-key insights into winning strategies, weaving in innovative and scalable tactics that engage audiences in culture and in context, amplify messages, and deliver measurable results. In this ever-changing world, there is no one “standard way” to get things done; therefore, we work across the entire paid, earned, shared, and owned media spectrum to deliver creative solutions to complex challenges time and time again.

What We Do

Everything we do is founded on exceeding our clients’ expectations to deliver the unexpected. Oftentimes that means getting mass media coverage, social impressions, and engagement, and other times it’s about curating unique experiences, creating special content and messaging, orchestrating large-scale events and stunts, or securing influencer and celebrity-driven partnerships that speak to specific niche audiences. We aim to generate conversations that resonate, heighten awareness and influence consumer perceptions, and when necessary, create urgency around a specific call-to-action.

We’ve come a long way since our humble beginnings in our founder’s garage in 2003, and as our clients’ needs and objectives have changed and expanded, so have our capabilities evolved over time. We started with a singular focus on entertainment and while we remain one of the top independent agencies in Hollywood, we also have cultivated a reputation as one of the fastest-growing, strategic, and creative consumer, lifestyle, and multicultural marketing agencies in North America. We are proud of our track record and are excited to continue paving new roads on a regular basis.

Celebrity makeup artist Mariela Bagnato and Univision host of “Hoy Dia” Adamari Lopez at Fiestas Amazon media and influencer event.

Brand and Campaign Strategy

Earned Media and Publicity

Universal Pictures’ Trolls World Tour Movie celebrity seeding with Ana Patricia, host of Univision’s “Enamorandonos” and her daughter.

Influencer Marketing and Celebrity Seeding

Celebrities pose with their pets for National Pet Day as a promotion for Secret Life of Pets 2 by H&M Communications.

Digital and Social Media

Events and Experiences

Talent Engagement

Celebrity partnership with “Chiquibaby” Stephanie Himonidis, co-host of Telemundo’s “Hoy Dia” morning show; Promoting Xfinity XFi Pods, a Comcast company.

Marketing Partnerships

Promotional movie mailer sent to Becky G (video in modal) for movie Glass, an American psychological thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who produced with Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock and Ashwin Rajan. Universal Pictures release.

Content and Mailer Creation and Specialty Gifting

Multicultural Marketing

A photo of a woman's head and shoulders submerged in water. Her face and body are painted with scales. The photo was taken as part of a promotion by H&M Communications for the movie the Shape of Water.

Creative Services and Advertising

Students sit smiling holding boxes in their laps that say "Internet Essentials." Comcast Internet Essentials Program, an initiative to help bridge the digital divide among students.

Corporate and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Communications

Posters for the movies The Conjuring, the Devil Made Me Do It, Straight Outta Compton, F9 The Fast Saga, The Shape of Water, Bridesmaids, Get Out

Film and Television Marketing

Product boxes for robot vacuums are stacked up white stairs neatly. beside that is a shelf with amazon gift bags and the hashtag #entregandosonrisas

Brand Building and Reputation Management

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WHAT WE KNOW

We’ve built a reputation for being among the best and most strategic marketing and communications consultants. While we’ve worked in most industries, we’re most experienced in:

Media & Entertainment

Health & Wellness

Food & Beverage

Consumer Products

Technology

Sports

Education

Travel

Beauty

Telecommunications

Our Leadership and People

H+M Communications is Hispanic-owned and LGBT and Female co-owned. With full-time, cross-cultural, cross-sector, and multi-disciplinary experts across three continents, we are small but mighty. Drawing from our deep and experienced footholds in Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, New Jersey, Denver, Houston, Chicago, and Connecticut, as well as Mexico City and Madrid, we are strategically positioned to deliver results when and where our clients need it most. The H+M team offers the perfect combination of big agency experience and boutique-style, high-touch service. We custom build teams based on clients’ specific needs. And we do it seamlessly, in multiple languages and across multiple time zones without missing a beat.

Etienne Hernandez-Medina

Founder + CEO

Jennifer Becerra

Partner, Chief Strategy + Creative Officer

Aimee Thompson

Executive Vice President, Global Communications + Chief People Officer

Daniella Villegas

Senior Director, Entertainment Communications

Ana Lucia Bustamante

Director, Entertainment Communications

Mando Compean

Director, Partnerships + Social Media

Sharon Ezra

Director, Finance + Operations

Samantha Moore

Associate Director, Retail + Innovation Communications

Word On The Street...

We don’t measure our success by the awards we win, but they sure look great on display. H+M is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top integrated marketing and communications agencies for its expertise across a broad range of industries and practices.

H&M Communications Bravo Award Winner Agency of the Year, HPRA

H&M Communications, Integrated Communications Agency of the Year, PR News

H&M Communications, Content Marketing Agency of the Year, Pr News

H&M Communications, Top Consumer Agencies in North America, The Holmes Report

H&M Communications, Marketing Silver Anvil Award, PSRA

H&M Communications, Integrated Communications Silver Anvil Award, PSRA

H&M Communications, Social Media & Networking Sabre Award Winner, The Holmes Report

H&M Communications, Non-Journalists/Influencers & Communities, In2 Sabre Award Winner, The Holmes Report

H&M Communications, Multicultural Public Relations Silver Anvil Award, PRSA

H&M Communications, Word of Mouth/Viral Bronze Anvil Award, PRSA

H&M Communications, Top Minority Owned Businesses, Los Angeles Business Journal

Word On The Street...

We don’t measure our success by the awards we win, but they sure look great on display. H+M is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top integrated marketing and communications agencies for its expertise across a broad range of industries and practices.

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CLIENTS

Like our work and our diverse team, our clients span the spectrum. One of the industry’s best-kept secrets, we mainly rely on word-of-mouth and client referrals. Focused singularly on being the best at what we do, we are proud to work (and have previously worked) alongside a diverse group of the biggest, most admired companies and brands in business today.