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 [...]
May Kodak’s history not repeat itself among us!
It is our mission to become the most influential agency in Central America. The vision is simple, yet bigger than us: we want to make the world a better place through advertising. Ours is a culture of inclusiveness and transparency(WYSIWYG), which fosters [...]
It’s just one detail and it makes all the difference. The meeting tent is a marvel, but even more so is how much we enjoy making things happen at Tribu. Check out a sample of emails, in this case with Viviana Araya [...]
When Paula Guevara and Carlos Jimenez were the first Ticos in the Young Lions Competition, in June 2007, I participated as well. Here is the picture to prove it. Yes, the chicken is me, and what fun we had, because they needed [...]
On Monday, June 22, 2009, in “A Fuego Lento” we published a spectacular news, because Maia Livov and Jennifer Caldwell had won a very important Silver medal, participating in Cannes Young Lions Competition. Since we achieved the representation of Cannes for the [...]
I lived ten years of my life as a publicist at McCann-Erickson, one of which was in San Pedro Sula and almost five in Mexico City. Then I returned to Costa Rica and founded Consumer, the name Tribu had for its first [...]