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 [...]
On Friday night of the Superschool Weekend at Uveritas, organized by ASCAP, a “round table” was held, masterfully conducted by Layla Poveda of Comunicación Corporativa Ketchum. Here are all the participations in video, Andrés Artavia from Garnier BBDO, Pancho Terán from Tribu, [...]
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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