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 […]
Last Friday Al Gore spoke to the world’s advertisers, creatives, clients and production companies at the Grand Audi of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. The climate crisis is a huge, urgent, important issue, and we can all make a contribution. Al [...]
Leo Burnett Australia ignited everyone’s imagination with an idea that makes us smile, excites us and makes us contagious. The presentation of Leo and its Contagious division has just finished, an extraordinary seminar, superior to any other seen during the week. And [...]
In turn, Saatchi Saatchi’s global network managed to sneak in as the third most awarded network at Cannes 2007. Undoubtedly, another great year for the creative organization headed by Bob Isherwood, as well as for Tony Granger in New York, which in [...]
This is an award at Cannes that we all applaud, because it presents the false advertising evolution of feminine beauty and the reason why it is totally misrepresented. A thunderous applause for Dove and Ogilvy Canada. Standing ovation, with millions of hits [...]
With a referendum ahead for CAFTA in Costa Rica, it is worth remembering the effects of the no vote! Yes to NAFTA! (The video is yet another extraordinary idea by Del Campo Nazca Saatchi Saatchi, Argentina, for Procter Gamble and its Pampers [...]
From a sleepless night: Irremediably I am going to die, although I don’t know when. I will leave everything and only my soul with me. Will I take my memories with me, will I travel with what I have learned? Will I [...]
I always ask for an aisle, open my book, my magazine or my laptop. I take the time of the flight for myself, for e-mails, campaigns, pending issues, strategy or the project waiting for an opinion. And because of this, it has [...]
On Youtube you can find a few one-minute films that are part of an interesting festival for sixty-second feature films. Here is a sample with a focus of key importance for all people living on this planet…
If we are going to have 100 days of on-air advertising with a brand, 25 or 300? How is it possible that we still believe that we can “sell” intelligent people with paid messages focused on superlatives, plastic situations and posed models? [...]
