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 […]
All over the world, agencies that come to play hard at the Cannes Festival prepare their pieces well in advance. In fact, at this moment they are already producing the ideas chosen in the last weeks, in order to have all their [...]
Tony Granger and his team in New York launched a new marvel of a commercial. It’s a story aimed at women and their magic, in a production with a lot of dollars involved. It’s refreshing to see a retail giant like JC [...]
If you are already jogging or running 8 or 10 Kms, you are in time to prepare, for example, for the Miami Half Marathon, January 27, 2008. From Tribu we will be training Quincho Brenes, Gabo Alfaro, Giovanni Sanchez and myself, so [...]
Richard Branson is a living legend and an extraordinary entrepreneur who has amazed the world for years. In this interview with Chris Andersen in Monterey, California, he tells us about his Virgin empire, his successful brands, some of his ideas regarding space, [...]
It is not at all comfortable to talk about our addictions. It is a subject we avoid so as not to confront our deep weaknesses, with complex roots and entangled in our powerful self-defense systems. Those addicted to drugs or alcohol are [...]
Costa Rica has become a conglomerate that brings together world-class talent. They are programmers who write code for the most important brands and companies on the planet, and they’re a load of work! For example, to insert the video I want to [...]
This week Comunidad elected its new board of directors for the next two years. I wish them much success and the best results in these times that demand so much from us. For this reason, I celebrate the integration of talents that [...]
Advertising Age named him the most influential publicist of the twentieth century. Apple included him among the world personalities who inspired its “Think Different” campaign. The B in DDB stands for his last name. I write a few paragraphs about Bill Bernbach, [...]
Technology is the most powerful accelerator in advertising creativity. Brands around the world are proliferating and next June Cannes will have more cases that prove this to be true. The speed of change is only increasing and today it is reckless. Let’s [...]
The future begins today, as a phrase could rightly be described as trite. However, it reflects a powerful truth that I do not recommend ignoring (it can be very expensive!). That’s right, the future will be nothing more or less than the [...]
In the year in which Apple celebrates 30 years of having launched Macintosh to the world, a new Apple commercial has come to fill our spirits with poetry. This time it is with the text of an excerpt from the movie Dead [...]