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 […]
In the early days of our agency, located in the room of my parents’ house that my brother Carlos vacated, the then Consumer had its first network: a Mac 512 and a Mac SE, my brother’s computer and mine. From one desk [...]
Jorge Galeano’s memory will live forever in our memories, because his role was crucial in the beginning of our company. Que de Dios Goce, Jorge opened the first accounting books, made the first financial statements and came to put order in that [...]
We brought him from McCann-Erickson with a mission, to make him the first digital artfinalist in the country. As a young master of graphic arts, Fernando turned to Mac to learn the new way of making art. He dedicated, on one long [...]
Alvaro Fernández entered our agency with the credentials of Doña Rotunda on his chest, a character created for the National Lottery that made havoc, history and provoked big smiles. With us, he dedicated much of his talent to Cofal, as well as [...]
When I proposed to Marjorie González to move from GM (Gutiérrez Machado), a respectable agency of those years, she accepted for reasons that I still don’t understand, since she decided to join an embryonic company and the one she was joining as [...]
Legendary Hernán Ortega, the first advertising creative graduated from a university, recognized, great, successful and with a great trajectory up to that moment, Hernán accepted to join Consumer, which honored me, moved me and gave me great confidence, strength and impulse. With [...]
In the month of May, A Fuego Lento reached 246,310 page views from 19,842 different servers, transferring a total of 12,561.3 MBs and 237,523 HTML requests. What does this data mean? A lot of visits. Undoubtedly, the Young Lions and the Nelka [...]
From its beginnings, Clandestina has started with emotion, joy, illusion and a lot of love, which at the end of the day, is the key ingredient to eliminate fear. Indifferent to critics and detractors, focused on her mission, dreaming big and doing [...]
In the public document included in this note, you will find the pieces that will be competing for Costa Rica in Cannes. The agencies betting with their entries are jotabeqú/Grey, Garnier BBDO, JWT and Tribu Saatchi Saatchi. They are just a few [...]
Yesterday I received from Cannes the final report with the entries by country, where I am pleased to see that we went from 13 entries in 2007 to a total of 23 in 2008, almost doubling the number of entries. This percentage [...]
INTRODUCTION: The following note was published in the blog at the time, and remains so in the records of this blog. However, due to the importance of the case, it is necessary to clarify beforehand that JWT presented its version, documents and [...]