I start typing with an overwhelming feeling of defeat. Not because the trip at the end of August to which I am going to refer went badly, but because I think it is almost impossible to translate into text what I experienced. No adjective is sufficient to describe what it really means to experience “Burning […]
Often the enemy is in ourselves. And indeed, agencies that have decided to pull out or quit are sending a message: deterioration, lack of leadership, lack of direction, fear of losing, that they have nothing to compete with, lack of creative, internal [...]
The Openhouse Project presents in Artecine Lindora: LOSING YOUR RELIGION, by Andy Stanley. Mondays, Feb. 15, 22, March 1, 8. 7:15 PM. Lindora, Costa Rica. And yes. Face it. Religion can get pretty strange pretty quickly. Mystical. Superstitious. Legalistic. Judgmental. Hypocritical. But [...]
All advertising agencies compete in the market, although only a few compete in local, regional or global creative festivals. And although it is not a rule, those that are confirmed as winners through creative competitions are generally more successful. Just as no [...]
Sometime in late 2008, Diego Garcia and I joked at Tribu thinking about the spectacular combination that would be achieved if it were possible to add Tribu to DDB. We entertained the idea for a moment and put it in the basket [...]
We started talking since April and finally today we are officially DDB. As a Christmas present and precisely on vacations, now DDB in Costa Rica will have five letters in front of us: Tribu. Encouraged by this new stage in our lives, [...]
“We’re about celebrating the good, not about denigrating the bad,” said Terry Savage at the last meeting of Cannes representatives in London. At the same time, he returned to the subject of scams to review Cannes’ new policy on this much-debated issue. [...]
With great expectation and excitement, as well as admiration and respect for the work of the entire ASCAP team, today is the night of Volcán in Costa Rica, the most anticipated creative advertising contest of the year. Without further ado, before knowing [...]
Although Garnier BBDO wants to repeat agency of the year and jotabeqú wants to regain that status, the truth is that next Thursday’s Volcano has no favorites, or as they say, it could be a surprise. Personally, I think it will be [...]
I fully identify with all those who complain about the enormous distance between day-to-day life and what goes to a festival, when it comes to advertising creativity and commercial messages. It would be great if consumer activists united to demand that advertisers [...]
We are still living on the prayers of our grandparents, enjoying the blessings that come to us because of the hymns they sang and the petitions they made, says Jon Goode. Like him, we have a little more than others and [...]
