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 […]
Message sent by Antonio Ramirez. ___________________________________________ Jorge, How do you do. We don’t know each other but I’m an advertising and marketing fever. I signed up for your blog because a creative friend of mine, known as Yorsh, passed it on to [...]
glumbert.com – The Great Descent Do you know the worst thing that could happen to a client? And I want to insist, do you know the worst of the worst of the worst of all the worst things that could happen to [...]
We moved to the Dent when I was about 11 years old, and since then, I had new neighbors: an Automercado, Giacomín and the bowling alley. For years they meant a part of my life that I always remembered with great affection [...]
This is really stupid. However, that’s how we started and today, Sony’s PlayStation and Nintendo’s Wii, to name just two brands, are global empires. Could it be then that stupidity does indeed exist? The little game is literally stupid, and proves that [...]
“In this business you have to make a scoop of shit taste like vanilla ice cream… and when you’re done, count on your stomach to voluntarily order a second helping!”, Bob James told me in 1988 when he was CEO of McCann-Erickson [...]
This happened to me in the year two thousand and three. I was reading a report about that year’s edition of FIAP, you know: the winners, finalists, speakers and everything that surrounds it, when suddenly I noticed someone else interested in the [...]
Yesterday we were told that we had won a gold. From Costa Rica they say it was a silver, because of a publication in Adlatina. Today I was told that it was not so, but that the bronze is what is confirmed. [...]
PROMO ACTIVATION, PR DIRECT LIONS WINNERS ANNOUNCED PROMO ACTIVATION AND PR GRANDS PRIX GO TO USA DIRECT GRAND PRIX GOES TO NEW ZEALAND Cannes, 22 June 2010 – The first of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival winners were honoured last night [...]
Today we enjoyed the most exciting recognition for the creativity of a dream team in a company like few others: Tribu DDB has 5 finalists in the Press category at the Cannes Lions Festival. These two images are worth gold, no matter [...]
A couple of issues ago, a column appeared in Advertising Age Central America and Caribbean. It may well have gone unnoticed by many, especially since the publication does not have a digital version, as hard as it may be to believe. However, [...]
As of June 20, we will have a new option for entertainment in front of the screen, and it won’t be on TV: the Bob Garfield Lounge. The development of content continues to be frenetic on the network and today it is [...]
For years we have been looking for a Lion at Cannes, however, in 2011 we have one guaranteed. Our entries were made in Print, Media and Public Relations for a total of 9 shots at the frame that we hope to see [...]
