All the texts I’ve recently published in The Slow Burn have been born from a desire to share and inspire. I emphasize this because I recognize that it wasn’t always like this. In the past, when I called myself a publicist and entrepreneur, my writing was often driven by a need to build my personal […]
When you walk around Cannes, it is not surprising that Bob Isherwood, Fabio Fernandez or Pablo del Campo, to name three of Saatchi’s creative figures, are suddenly stopped at the Croissette to ask for autographs, just as it should not be surprising [...]
In our search for bigger ideas than ads at Saatchi Saatchi, the Battle of the Surfaces, the brainchild of Pablo del Campo, achieved a reach across the globe unprecedented in the history of tennis. These days, and through this channel as well [...]
The lenses we use in life are tinged with subjectivity and perceptions, so there is no quick fix or easy solution in the appreciation of any event, especially those that affect us emotionally. In the theory of knowledge, subjectivity is the property [...]
A Lovemark is irresistible and Apple knows how to do it like no one else. Nothing more to say. This is how Steve Jobs presented it in San Francisco. My first personal computer was an Apple IIc, and with it, my first [...]
I am not as stubborn as I appear to be. I am firm, because I have to be, but I constantly reflect on my actions, on the policies I am promoting and on the attitudes I am adopting. I have had the [...]
Procter Gamble is betting on advertising creativity as never before, and it is the same giant that used to accuseocus of squares, defenders of parity, masters of testimonials and demos. After Unilever, Procter sent more executives to Cannes than any other advertiser. [...]
Uncontrolled visual pollution: that is what billboards, signs in general and, especially, the recently arrived billboards bring. It is enough to open our eyes to the visual contamination that they bring everywhere, to realize the indiscriminate way in which they invade our [...]
This blog is one more idea, which may be silly or suddenly is a good idea. It is a new resource for those of us who are new immigrants to the resources of technology, which in my case, is about 18 years [...]