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 […]
We are living the biggest Cannes Lions in history, with more than 32,000 entries participating, more than 10,000 delegates attending and more clients present than ever before. Yesterday I was talking to Phil Thomas, CEO of Cannes Lions, and he told me: [...]
McCann-Erickson and JWT agencies dawn on Direct’s shortlist today, Sunday! With 105 entries in various categories, we are looking forward to more Lions to enrich the biodiversity of our country. We are also very happy to see Guatemala also present in the [...]
Today is a day like no other, because today has not existed and will not be like tomorrow. For this reason I invite you to watch this message that will influence your day to be a wonderful, unique and full of the [...]
Our agency in Panama is participating in Cannes with an extraordinarily well-produced case for our client Peugeot, using Pinterest as its main platform. In fact, it will be a pioneer case with good metal possibilities. Here is the case: In the spirit [...]
When we decided to share our future, we did so because we were in sync. Everything is easier when you share beliefs, dreams and illusions, when you share passions and values. For this reason, with the leadership of Jorge Solórzano, Víctor Pardo, [...]
Fantastic! Fantastic! I just received the complete information of the entries of Costa Rican agencies participating in Cannes, for a total record of 105 entries in the most important creative festival on the planet. Not long ago I was wondering: will we [...]
Often the enemy is in ourselves. And indeed, agencies that have decided to pull out or quit are sending a message: deterioration, lack of leadership, lack of direction, fear of losing, that they have nothing to compete with, lack of creative, internal [...]
The Openhouse Project presents in Artecine Lindora: LOSING YOUR RELIGION, by Andy Stanley. Mondays, Feb. 15, 22, March 1, 8. 7:15 PM. Lindora, Costa Rica. And yes. Face it. Religion can get pretty strange pretty quickly. Mystical. Superstitious. Legalistic. Judgmental. Hypocritical. But [...]
All advertising agencies compete in the market, although only a few compete in local, regional or global creative festivals. And although it is not a rule, those that are confirmed as winners through creative competitions are generally more successful. Just as no [...]
Sometime in late 2008, Diego Garcia and I joked at Tribu thinking about the spectacular combination that would be achieved if it were possible to add Tribu to DDB. We entertained the idea for a moment and put it in the basket [...]
We started talking since April and finally today we are officially DDB. As a Christmas present and precisely on vacations, now DDB in Costa Rica will have five letters in front of us: Tribu. Encouraged by this new stage in our lives, [...]
“We’re about celebrating the good, not about denigrating the bad,” said Terry Savage at the last meeting of Cannes representatives in London. At the same time, he returned to the subject of scams to review Cannes’ new policy on this much-debated issue. [...]
