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 […]
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 [...]
About 3 months ago today I ran my third marathon, among other things, because I like being a long distance runner. One step at a time, a steady pace, good management of your resources, careful planning, ability to overcome frustration and pain, [...]
Here is the first one. The Argentine market has become a successful case of duo work. Let’s take a look: the mythical Fernando Vega Olmos and Hernán Ponce, Ramiro Agulla and Carlos Baccetti; and more recently Chavo D’ Emilio and Papón Ricciarelli [...]
We have only 3,650 days left to reverse the impact of our carbon emissions, balance our lifestyles and become carbon-neutral human beings… before it becomes irreversible. The climate crisis and global warming is the theme with which the Young Creatives are currently [...]
Cannes 2007 Jury President Bob Scarpelli, DDB’s Global Creative Director, discusses the competition of young creatives and the mobile power of the phone screen.
These pictures can give you an idea of the direction in which emotions are moving, as the days go by…. Cheers!