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 […]
Today I walked into a meeting at Comunicación Corporativa / Ketchum and found 5 Volcanes at the reception desk. That’s right, not one, not two, not three but five awards collected at last Saturday’s Volcano Festival. This is the case that even [...]
At about 15 minutes before midnight, we celebrated in Tribu the 4th consecutive Volcano for Agency of the Year. After a demanding and not at all complacent awarding, this year’s jury distributed prizes among several companies, although once again we scored enough [...]
We all want success and fame. We want to be admired, respected and even applauded. Right? On a Volcano, in Cannes, Hollywood or in a public square, on stage or at home. Yet, when someone asks: Who has achieved real success, few [...]
Since Volcano hasn’t happened yet, I don’t have much new to tell you. What I can think is that it will be the prelude to a pitched battle next year for several reasons. If we consider this week’s competition, we could expect [...]
“Start at the end and work your way back to the beginning” is Andrew Stanton’s summary of storytelling. With English subtitles, I think you will want to apply his ideas every time you are going to speak in public, give a presentation, [...]
The COMUNIDAD de Empresas de Comunicación Comercial de Costa Rica presents the Pellizco y su Volcán. It is the local championship of advertising and commercial creativity, as the first Central American stage in the direction of the world. For sure we will [...]
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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