I start typing with an overwhelming feeling of defeat. Not because the trip at the end of August to which I am going to refer went badly, but because I think it is almost impossible to translate into text what I experienced. No adjective is sufficient to describe what it really means to experience “Burning […]
BRAZIL WINS PRESS GRAND PRIX THE 2010 PRESS Lions’ Grand Prix winner is AlmapBBDO São Paulo, Brazil, for the Billboard Magazine campaign ‘Bono’, ‘Eminem’, ‘Amy’, ‘Britney’, ‘Marilyn’. Jury president Mark Tutssel, Leo Burnett Worldwide’s chief creative officer, said: “The Grand Prix winner [...]
One no longer knows if there is a line between creatives and inventors, between iconoclasts and innovators, or between advertising and what today should have a new name. What is certain is that now online meets offline with above the line and [...]
There are days when everything looks dark and depressing, even though everything around you is bright, inspiring and exciting. We often allow feelings to randomly capture us, without discovering the incalculable power in us to choose them. I’ve heard this phrase: “Pain [...]
This week the Cannes Lions festival awarded the founder of Facebook as Media Person of the Year. They fell short: it should have been Media Person of the Century. At only 26 years of age, today he is the founder of a [...]
After Tuesday night, when Cannes held its open-air party on the beach in front of the Carlton, yesterday I woke up with a severe sore throat that warned me of the inevitable: a cold is coming. I spent Wednesday well affected and [...]
Let’s look at it this way. In a year in which we repeated agency of the year in the Volcano, with lava, fire, ashes and fumaroles included, to then sail the Caribbean alone in a speedboat and bring us more statuettes than [...]
Of the ideas that have impressed me the most these days, this new Gold Lion for TBWA South Africa is one of those that remind us that it’s not a matter of budgets, production or unnecessary extremes when the idea itself is [...]
Would you blame yourself, is a perfect question for the headline of the print ad with which Maia and Jeniffer won Silver at the Young Lions press event in Cannes. Maturity and talent combined for our girls representatives in the Young Lions [...]
Don’t miss this campaign by JWT Argentina. I didn’t know it and like everyone at Debussy, I applauded it loudly for its fantastic creativity, fresh, happy and especially brave, because it’s not easy to guess how they managed to sell this idea [...]
With 40% fewer delegates this year, as well as 20% fewer entries, the world’s most important advertising festival did not emerge unscathed from the current global crisis. There is a different atmosphere and in general, I could say, more awareness, more contact [...]
With Gold, Silver and Bronze for DDB in the first two and JWT in the third, Costa Rica accumulated a total of seven Lions in just one year between the 2008 and 2009 Cannes festivals. During the conversations of the last hours [...]
With no confirmation of any kind, “Let’s Recover Peace” sounds strong for Gold at Cannes, so we are extremely excited to see another creative team on the main stage of the creative advertising world picking up a Gold Lion. If last year [...]
