Univision Radio announced a year-long sponsorship by SUBWAY Restaurants of its exclusive Concert Series. Each concert will feature an opening act performance by an up-and-coming artist, sponsored by SUBWAY Restaurants. The partnership also includes the creation and promotion of a branded micro-site entitled “SUBWAY Artistas Frescos”, where listeners can enter to win prizes, including a grand prize trip for two to a Univision Radio Concert Series event over the course of the year.

The micro-site, http://www.subwayartistasfrescos.com/, will allow participants to submit a creative video that incorporates the SUBWAY(R) jingle. Each submission will be judged on uniqueness, creativity, originality and use of the jingle. The top-ten videos will be selected and posted on the site to allow visitors to vote for their favorite submission.

“Partnering with a leading consumer brand like SUBWAY offers a terrific opportunity to promote our concert series in an artistic manner and we are excited to be able to incorporate the Internet to engage a younger audience,” said Gary Stone, president and chief operating officer, Univision Radio. “We look forward to a successful year-long program.”

“Our partnership with Univision Radio offers SUBWAY a unique opportunity to reach out to our Hispanic youth target market in a fun, creative and culturally relevant way,” said Eddie Lindley, SUBWAY senior marketing manager, Multicultural Markets. “Music is always a great vehicle for reaching younger audiences, and concerts all the more so. We look forward to a successful promotion that combines sponsorship of the popular Univision Radio Concert Series, a SUBWAY jingle-singing contest, and the power of the Internet.”

“SUBWAY is the ideal partner for this promotion and we’re fortunate to be working with them,” said Jack Hobbs, executive vice president, Univision Radio. “Our listeners will get to showcase their creative and musical talents, interact with the Subway brand and have a chance to attend our exclusive concert series.”

Flock has entered into a partnership with Univision Interactive Media to offer consumers a free Univision edition of the social Web browser. The free and customized social media browser connects users to Univision’s content, while keeping them linked to their email and popular social networking and media sites.

“Using a secure social web browser,” said Kevin Conroy, president of Univision Interactive Media, “Our U.S. Hispanic audience will now be able to stay connected to their favorite Spanish-language content and all of their friends.” The Flock browser is built on the open-source Mozilla Firefox code, and is connected to social online services like Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and Flickr, with features for users to broadcast messages to their networks.

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Drag-and-drop functionality therefore allows for sharing of photos, videos, and text to friends’ profiles on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites in Flock’s People Sidebar. The Univision edition of Flock includes access to news, entertainment and sports feeds, as well as a default Univision.com home page tab and search capability.

The social media browser also features “favorite” bookmarks, media streams of popular Univision videos and photos, and persistent links to other areas of Univision.com. Today, more than two-thirds of Hispanic adults are online, with Internet penetration among Hispanics growing every year for the past five years.

In the third quarter of this year, there were 9 million global visits to the home pages of Univision.com’s social media properties, including Mi Página, forums, and chat.

Last summer, Flock completed a $15 million round of funding led by Fidelity Ventures. All previous investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures — already responsible for more than $12 million — participated in the round.

As with Firefox and other Web browsers, the company derives most of its revenue from search placement deals with search engines.