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 […]
Any professional working with a consumer brand should go to Cannes Lions. The reasons are more than a hundred, but here I copy and paste 10 excellent arguments for an advertiser client to decide to go. Tue 5 Apr 2011 10 reasons [...]
If it were not for La Nación, the past Volcán Festival would have gone completely unnoticed in the mass media. Neither Teletica Canal 7, nor Repretel, I never see it, nor Summa or Monumental, nor La República or La Extra have even [...]
Last night we repeated Agency of the Year for the third consecutive Volcano, after the closest game played on these courts for as long as I can remember. And here, let the twitters tell it! So skip to the last line and [...]
Here for the blog, all the finalists of Tribu en el Volcán 2011. Without much more introduction, listen, watch, enjoy and share them.
I long for a cave or a monastery, without wifi or 3G. I am provoked by the mountains in the Himalayas without signal and the villages outside the cyber cafe. Few places in the world are left like the shower, without screens, [...]
After several years of Cannes, Ojos, Fiaps, Clios and so much more in the world of advertising awards, SXSW Interactive has turned out to be a surprise of unimaginable proportions. More than 30,000 people attend Austin, and among them in 2011: Paula [...]
When in December we talked about reaching 20,000 in a year, I never imagined it possible to pass 100,000 in October, obviously. This is very entertaining and different, both as a contact experience and as a personal exploration. From every point of [...]
Possibly nothing is more difficult than achieving a culture and protecting it over time. We are in continuous evolution and reinvention, however, there are values and conditions that we wish to turn into commitments, to renew, to strengthen, to retake. This video [...]
We are going back to Costa Rica with an invitation: Get on board, we have a lot to win and enjoy in this great creative game in Cannes. So get on board, get on board, get on board…! illustrated with a commercial [...]
A few hours ago we started the meeting of representatives, and since the first presentation we have begun to take note and learn from what is being done in the world to promote the festival, and as a consequence, advertising creativity. At [...]
Today we arrived in London for the first meeting of Cannes representatives attended by Costa Rica, and on its behalf, Manolo Gavilán from Ogilvy and myself. I guess because the festival’s headquarters are located in London, they prefer to convene their representatives [...]