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 [...]
After judging some 400 advertising pieces of the Ojo de Iberoamérica, and having seen some 1,500 more, I have some anxiety and concern, because we have a long way to go. Not only are we far from Argentine creativity, but we are [...]
There is no one who is unaware of the fierce and predatory competition among advertising agencies in the country and around the world. It would seem that the time of ladies and gentlemen has passed and it has become, as they say [...]
Live creatively.
Today is Friday the 13th and I’m in Montevideo. I’ve been watching commercials for hours and enjoying this opportunity to judge at the Ojo de Iberoamérica, with the DVD they sent me on my laptop and a Diet Coke without ice, while [...]
The upcoming Volcán, an advertising contest organized by ASCAP, the Costa Rican association of advertising agencies, could be a turning point, a milestone in our creative history, a point to trigger a breakthrough, leaving behind the past and defining together the future. [...]
This wonderful story told in an innocent Iranian production, became a worldwide success with nominations and awards all over the world. It is easy to recognize that big budgets are not needed when an idea is so wonderfully powerful. This film should [...]
