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 […]
There goes life between one thing and another, unraveling its mysteries and riddles to bring us many questions and some answers. With only December 2011 coming to an end, the balance of the year is looking good and positive. It’s Sunday, I [...]
Today we discovered in Tribu, among our Macintosh collection, one of those few Macs that were signed by its creators. They knew it was a work that would go down in history, and as is done with any work of art, Steve [...]
Today I was looking at the list and I couldn’t help but take a close look at the agencies that share the 34th place in the ranking of winning agencies in the Ojo de Iberoamérica: there are 33 agencies with the best [...]
I won’t tell you much, because the pictures say it all. Take a look at Tribu’s Facebook page. If you haven’t done it before, give it a Like, and then don’t miss the photo booth, an idea of Promotica during the week [...]
We are rich; simply because we have more than we need. The central idea of the message, however, is around what to do with this condition of privilege that all of us who are rich have. A few days ago I was [...]
I join the millions of tweets, posts, references, links and everything that adds to one of the most viral campaigns in a long time: Benetton’s Unhate. What envy! And I don’t mean the envy that some people might feel when they kiss [...]
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. [...]
