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 these days in which we celebrate one more year of Tribu, we have decided to bring back “on the air” campaigns and ideas that were milestones in our race for life. To all those who have contributed with their work, devotion [...]
As we celebrate another anniversary of Tribu, I would like to share with you one of the classics of our trajectory: Johnny’s Vaquerito. Creativity by Hernán Ortega, production by El Hangar (Direction by Antonio Yglesias and Direction of Photography by Mario Cardona [...]
In ASCAP we have made a commitment: to boost the creative advertising product in our partner agencies, and move from the “I” to the “we” to accelerate the transformation process. For this reason, we have hired Brother and its SuperWeekend School, which [...]
You have to watch this commercial! And enjoy it. It’s so creative, daring and different, that it even looks like a fake (…just kidding). The agency is Santo from Buenos Aires, filmed in South Africa, produced by Stink from London and musicalized [...]
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