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 […]
I don’t think something like this has ever happened before in the history of advertising in our country. Today in La Teja and on the front page, the news of the launching of a new commercial of El Verdugo stores, for its [...]
Some time ago I discovered www.chess.com and from then on A Fuego Lento has been in constant check. The direct competition of my blog has been chess. Only turbo mega super bati reloaded by chess.com, the best thing ever invented after chess [...]
The next Cannes Lions Festival is just around the corner, so the tension is building, suitcases are packed, hotels are crowded with reservations and the brand world is preparing for a particularly important edition. After the depression that can be explained by [...]
Last night I finally put play on the AppleTV and started watching a movie I downloaded a few weeks ago – Art Copy, by Doug Pray. I thought I’d abandon it at minute 5 or 10, only to find that I couldn’t [...]
Today I received an email from Bernal Esquivel, Director of Strategic Planning at Tribu DDB and great friend, with a picture and a mega ultra super super hyper hyper bati meaningful message: George, we did it! I burst out laughing with the [...]
Today we finally received the signal we were waiting for: it’s official. Movistar, our new big client has chosen us to be their creative partner in Costa Rica for an unprecedented launch in the country. Although until just a few weeks ago… [...]
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me”, is the phrase with which Jack Nicholson begins “The Departed”, Oscar for best film in 2006. What do you think? Here are [...]
With an open heart and with all our emotions connected to the inspiring example of Andrea Leñero, I celebrate the opportunity to share with you this message from the BAC and the life of this wonderful girl. For all of us at [...]
Thanks to Edgar Mora for sending me the link!
We have started a national campaign to save the species that become extinct every day in the Osa, for the trees that we do not want to cut down, for the 2.5% of the biodiversity that is concentrated in our most important [...]
El Financiero published this interview, conducted by Daniela Correa, in June of last year. It was published for the second time in the 2006 compilation that circulated a few weeks ago. The complete interview here: https://www.elfinancierocr.com/negocios/jorge-oller/HOWKVPN5QVAEHL3SL7XJJQFNGY/story/
The creative workshop or the free-lance, as we want to call him, has certain risk conditions for the advertiser who hires him, which I will mention below. The creative freelancer, on the other hand, in all his legitimacy and talent, must be [...]