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 […]
Today, Sunday, minutes after the Tribal DDB presentation that I’ll discuss later, Sapient Nitro kicked off their afternoon presentation videos with this one that has nearly 80 million views on YouTube and led them to say that brands need free hugs too. [...]
Live from Day One at Cannes Lions 2010 Read this email online <https://list.canneslions.com/t/293633/10788508/3206/0/> Cannes Lions 2010 kicked off this morning, and we are reporting live from the Festival this year, with interviews, video highlights from the programme and insights into the winning [...]
The Cannes Lions is coming once again and although the word that will be said the most is digital, the Film category will surely be again the queen of all and with fabulous winners like the ones we can already anticipate. Check [...]
After several days of drought on the keys, because between one and a thousand things I have been distracted even more than usual, it has made me all the sense of the moment to start with a phrase that is in itself [...]
Where does creative inspiration come from? At TEDIndia, Hollywood and Bollywood director Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth,” “Mr. India”) points to his source of creativity: total and utter panic. He shares a powerful way to unleash our inner storyteller. Some of the published comments: [...]
Cannes Lions 2010 Entries Increase 7%. Thursday 03 June 2010 24,242 total entries – the 4th highest number in the history of Cannes. The Organisers of the 57th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival today announced that more than 24,000 entries from 90 [...]
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 [...]