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 […]
In the last week we were visited by students from Ulatina, Fidelitas, Uveritas, Interamericana and UCR, as well as from Tecnológico de Monterrey in San Luis Potosí. A couple of weeks ago, they had visited us from INCAE, a few days before [...]
David Droga, is the founder and Creative Chairman of Droga5. Growing up in a resort town in Australia, David couldn’t imagine anything better than being a ski instructor traveling the world. Ironically it was his imagination that took him overseas, not his [...]
Web2.0 is about relationships and connecting people. It is people collaborating, exchanging, sharing like never before. Because of this, we have to take up the challenge and rethink copyright, identity, ethical variables, intellectual property, rhetoric, governance issues, privacy, commerce, love, family and [...]
With honesty, providing opportunities, being real: And this is how it is defined: A Lovemark is a brand that has migrated from a place in the market, to the heart of a culture. It is a brand that inspires loyalty, beyond reason. [...]
When I started in this business there was a wonderful planning, ordering and direction tool called the Marketing Plan, in my perspective as an advertising agency, under the full responsibility of the client. It was not a calendar, nor was it a [...]
Would you blame yourself, is a perfect question for the headline of the print ad with which Maia and Jeniffer won Silver at the Young Lions press event in Cannes. Maturity and talent combined for our girls representatives in the Young Lions [...]
Don’t miss this campaign by JWT Argentina. I didn’t know it and like everyone at Debussy, I applauded it loudly for its fantastic creativity, fresh, happy and especially brave, because it’s not easy to guess how they managed to sell this idea [...]
With 40% fewer delegates this year, as well as 20% fewer entries, the world’s most important advertising festival did not emerge unscathed from the current global crisis. There is a different atmosphere and in general, I could say, more awareness, more contact [...]
With Gold, Silver and Bronze for DDB in the first two and JWT in the third, Costa Rica accumulated a total of seven Lions in just one year between the 2008 and 2009 Cannes festivals. During the conversations of the last hours [...]
With no confirmation of any kind, “Let’s Recover Peace” sounds strong for Gold at Cannes, so we are extremely excited to see another creative team on the main stage of the creative advertising world picking up a Gold Lion. If last year [...]
The first Costa Rican duo to compete at Cannes this week in the Young Lions Competition took home a spectacular Silver medal, after the pair from Portugal who won Gold. Maia Livov from Tribu and Jennifer Caldwell from Leo Burnett have achieved [...]
