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 […]
Anybody can make an ad. A brand doesn’t. In Costa Rica, as in the world, there are many people making ads. And of course, people hiring them. Many are those who assume that their brands or products need to advertise to sell, [...]
It’s been a few weeks since Rafael Abreu sent me the link to TED. Today, I am hooked to his TedTalks through iTunes, since all the presentations are available for free on his Podcasts. You can download them to your iPod or [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks, from his presentation at TedTalks in Monterey, California, about creativity and the challenge of changing education to value creativity as much as literacy. He identifies the importance of preparing ourselves to be wrong, if we want to be [...]
Photographer Phil Borges estimates that of the 6,000 languages spoken on the planet today, 3,000 are not known by children. In other words, as those who know them die, humanity will lose all the wealth that comes from the legacy of that [...]
USE THE POWER OF TRUST. Forget completely the idea that it is your turn to approve or reject, that this position is a big mistake. If you are going to value ideas, you have to be clear that all have potential, all [...]
There are people who complicate and entangle everything, go back and forth, change their minds constantly, forget what they say, do not allow things to flow, make processes slow and difficult, lower morale and team performance, and use sarcasm to defend their [...]
As of today, the Young Lions Zone is open on the Cannes Film Festival website. Be sure to visit it and connect with a great opportunity within reach, through ASCAP and La Nación. Click here: YOUNG LIONS ZONE
(By Valentina Vescovi, adlatina.com staff). The global CEO of Saatchi Saatchi, Kevin Roberts, spoke yesterday -at a press conference held at Del Campo Nazca SS- about the plans of his network and the purpose of his visit to Buenos Aires. He told [...]
From ASCAP, the association of advertising agencies in Costa Rica, transforming processes are being developed today. These unify in a creative direction of projection, without a single agency giving up even for a breath in the fierce competition that characterizes us. In [...]
To participate in the Young Lions Cannes 2008, the pairs can be from two different agencies, from one university or another, professional or trainee, active in advertising or not, as long as they are between 18 and 28, at least one of [...]
Today appears published in La Nación the first ad of the Young Lions campaign in Costa Rica, creativity of Ogilvy. In the link www.nacion.com/cannes all the information. Spread the word, connect the dots, encourage your friends, participate. It’s a wonderful opportunity.
