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 [...]
One of the most viral videos of the last few days is the iBand of North Point Community Church. Here you can enjoy it in all its originality and relevance, as I think it should be a place that aspires to make [...]
Today journalist Vanessa Loaiza shined in La Nación with an article that occupied space even on the front page of the newspaper. The headline reads“Mayor of San José offered tramway without technical support“. And then adds in the first line: “In the [...]
I have had my blog in total abandonment for days, not by my will but by the simple fact that I don’t have the time. Is it possible? For this, I plead guilty and so I propose you to take a few [...]
If Don Oscar and his government got a stadium from the Chinese, now it could be the turn of Doña Laura and her government to get one from Qatar. How does that sound? To tell the truth, I would prefer a million [...]
We have already started to upload the presentations of Ignite Costa Rica #1 on its website, and with them a series of lessons learned to improve in the second one. If you were not at the Jazz Café Escazu, we invite you [...]
A few months ago I climbed a beautiful peak in Arizona, on the well-known CamelBack Mountain with Sergio Valente, leader of DM9/DDB Brazil, one of the most creative and winning agencies in the world. It was a fun climb of a couple [...]
