I start typing with an overwhelming feeling of defeat. Not because the trip at the end of August to which I am going to refer went badly, but because I think it is almost impossible to translate into text what I experienced. No adjective is sufficient to describe what it really means to experience “Burning […]
THIS BLOG SUCKS. GO NEXT DOOR. Yeap, do yourself a favor and betray this blog right now, click the following link and dive into this site: https://innovation.cnbc.com/en/programmes/innovators_iconoclasts/innovators_iconoclasts Later… would you please… come back? Mario Morales, you are a bad influence, because of [...]
The arrogance of the advertising creative shines through when everyone else is square and we are not. When we think that the account executives fall short, or that the brand manager has no idea what needs to be done. It’s arrogance when [...]
After expanding the blog’s bandwidth, since it burst the day before yesterday due to an unexpected excess of hits, this meeting point on the net is back online, more solid and better prepared to receive your frequent visits, contributions and participation. In [...]
Garnier BBDO has been strengthened for years with the frontal competition of jotabeqú and vice versa. Ogilvy is the product of the merger of Óptima and Modernoble, as well as of its competition with Asesores or Publimark, to name just two. Tribu [...]
Or, should I say, are we going to Cannes? In 2006 I woke up to my life mistake and discovered how late I was going for the first time to the great advertising festival in the world. There I told Pablo del [...]
Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America’s best-selling poets, reads his poem “The Best Cigarette” with animation by David Vaio of FAD. Noted for their intelligent humor, accessibility and observations on daily life, Collins’ popular poems come alive further [...]
In a month post-leones and with a deliberate pause in various topics, the blog reached almost 142,000 page views and a lot of tranquility in an experimental space that I continue to enjoy. I don’t know the levels of reach and frequency, [...]
The Times of India presented a spectacular case in Cannes, awarded and applauded with a standing ovation, because it represents not only a powerful idea, but also reflects the spirit that is to be recognized with Lions and other statuettes at festivals [...]
There is a lot of work to do and a lot to do, so let’s stop being so sweet, because any agency, any country, any peasant can take our breath away in an instant. To win you have to focus, and [...]
We often miss the short-lists or the bronzes of a category, because naturally the golds are the first to capture our attention. However, important lessons can be learned from them, as is the case in this note from Arteaga in Puerto Rico. [...]
With two bronzes and a silver at the last Cannes Lions, Shackleton shows with this idea how great a proposal can be and how unfair a jury can be, in my opinion. Is there anyone who doesn’t agree with me that this [...]
