I start typing with an overwhelming sense of defeat. Not because the trip I’m about to describe — at the end of August — went badly, but because it feels almost impossible to put into words what I experienced there. No adjective seems big enough to capture what it truly means to live “Burning Man.” […]
Yesterday, agencies in the region turned to the lists of Finalists published on the Caribbean site, https://www.festivalcaribe.com/home.asp, to find a significant number of entries from Costa Rica on the short list in the different categories. It seemed to me that Ogilvy Costa [...]
For 16 Tribu creatives, today kicks off a Caribbean weekend, with the new edition of the festival organized by the Círculo de Creativos de Panamá. Costa Rica sent more pieces than any other country, and Ogilvy Costa Rica more than any other [...]
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 [...]
