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 […]
A few days ago I came across an advertisement that talks about envy, possibly from the entrails of the same feeling, which disturbed my spirit and made me think about this capital sin, and for this reason also, today I am typing [...]
In the “round table” of the Superschool, which were more like online chairs, we had three opinions about this campaign. Here is the video with the comments of Andrés Artavia, Manuel Travisany and Pancho Terán. Cheers!
Being in Cannes last year for the first time in my life, I received so much from the experience that I still don’t stop gaining from that experience of exposure to the most important advertising festival in the world. There is so [...]
The Caribbean is just a few days away. Costa Rica’s expectations, I guess, are still low. Most of the winning Guatemalan pieces, both from Leo and BBDO, are participating again in this festival, and I suppose, with good options. Likewise the Panamanian [...]
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From left to right, after dinner at Mangiamo, Daslav Maslov from Monstro Chile, Fito Bauzá from DDB Mexico, Jorge Oller from Tribu Costa Rica, Sebastián Mopardo from brother, Diego Castillo, Director of brother, and Carlos Cantú from YR Mexico. Daslav was 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 [...]