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 […]
It has been an event for the country, a publicity moment and a social phenomenon. The launch in the media for Movistar and Claro has generated countless comments and opinions. For, against or the opposite, Ticos are suddenly at the gates of [...]
With presentations two Sundays a month, tomorrow at the Openhouse: “Bulevar de los Sueños Rotos”, at 10:55 AM in Escazú, at the Meridiano Auditorium in the HSBC Building, next to Plaza Roble / Multiplaza. It’s simple. Some of our dreams come to [...]
Today I woke up with the Ode to the Brave, by Juan Carlos Ortiz, a friend worth three. Here I leave it for you to enjoy. Ode to the Brave The sages of India said that in life there are always three [...]
One of the brands that we have served in Tribu DDB for more years is Credomatic. For more than 15 years we have shared life, just as Movistar is now proposing. We have done a thousand projects, initiatives and achievements. From the [...]
Welcome Movistar! Last week the billboards came out and today television. Movistar has come to applaud the country they come to with a sincere and affectionate message to all Ticos and Ticas. It is very true: while many other countries elected an [...]
A couple of days ago I discovered Klout, thanks to the reference made by Rogelio Umaña, Interactive Creative Director at Tribu DDB, known worldwide as @gorileo. No more and no less than a digital influence meter, that’s Klout. The variables it crosses [...]
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. [...]
