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 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 [...]
Today has been an unforgettable experience: the Media Planning organized by Advertising Age in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. My commitment to share the Yellow Papers on Social Creativity and Six Degrees remains firm here with links to the PDFs on the DDB site. In [...]
Last night we closed our year of festivals with 3 Effies, one gold and two silver, all by Tribu DDB for our client Grupo Monge. Here’s how they look with some of the other awards won this year. The Iberoamerican Eye Gold, [...]
On Tribu DDB’s website today, we found a photo worth remembering. There is not much to add to the expressions that perfectly reflect what happens in an organization that is making its mark. We are missing a lot of people in the [...]
Emma Wilkie, General Manager of the Gunn Report kicked off at 9:00 AM on the third day at the Ojo. A few hours away from the Effie in Costa Rica, it is interesting to start with a presentation that sustains the undeniable: [...]
To listen to the most awarded creative of the last 15 years in Argentina, I sat in the front row of the Ojo de Iberoamérica to take notes. If Pablo talks, I listen. I am his fan and over the years we [...]