Latin music’s glitterati turned out to perform at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2025 Awards for a night of celebration and recognition, with each act enveloped by a huge LED screen controlled by Green Hippo Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 media servers.
Taking place at Miami’s 19,500-capacity Kaseya Center, the ceremony was broadcast on TV by Univision and hosted by Mexican actress Alejandra Espinoza, Italian singer Laura Pausini and Mexican singer Thalía. Global star Shakira was the most awarded artist.
The night warranted an array of video content, ranging from artist portraiture to city- and building-scapes, from strobe video effects to key performer and award category messaging. The pre-made content was created by several companies, including Madman, Framework, Hidden Road Studios, David Ayala, and Bowie Productions. Live feed from multiple cameras was also fed into the Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 media servers and delivered to the LED screens, with textures and effects layered via ZooKeeper.
Long-time Univision and Premio Lo Nuestro collaborator JMT Show Concepts supplied the Hippotizer media servers, which are distributed by ACT Entertainment in North America. The JMT team consisted of Jorge M. Toro as Head of Programming and Video Producer, Mauricio Caicedo as Server Technician and Rosario Toro as Project Manager.
“Everything was controlled from the Boreal+ MK2, as with this model there are no projects – no matter how big – that we can’t realise,” said Jorge M. Toro. “We programmed everything through ZooKeeper, and used two touch screen monitors and one MIDI controller with motorised faders. All our mappings were achieved using Hippotizer’s VideoMapper and we used Timeline for all the live cues in the music. Due to the fact that we had to build the video for each acts in a short amount of time, we could have two operators working at the same time in different tasks using Timeline. Also, the way Hippotizer Timeline works is beautiful, because you can record the base cue and then work on the details. For me, it’s the best Timeline solution on the market.”
For the 37th edition of Premio Lo Nuestro, there were 44 award categories, six of which were completely new, designed to cover all genres and tastes of Latin music fans. More than 230 artists were nominated. In addition to the in-arena audience and the TV viewers, fans could log into a live stream online and a live blog via the awards’ website.
