2025 has been a year of contrasts—intense, emotional, transformative. It began with a heartfelt farewell and ends with my soul wide open after the magical, peaceful family moments we usually share in Escondida. In between, there was laughter under a sky full of fireflies outside Kuala Lumpur with my grandson Mauricio; a spiritual retreat in […]
We Are the Sum of Our Choices While many people flirt with danger, others are wise and maintain their distance. Some fight to obtain their greatest ambitions, while others choose more conservative paths. We know people who dream and never stop, others [...]
In a few days we will celebrate Mother’s Day again, and as usual around the world, it also becomes a commercial opportunity. Gifts to mothers, celebrations, tributes and hugs also add to the creative challenge to make a difference. In advertising agencies [...]
A Historical Celebration What a wonderful celebration we are currently experiencing! What a great joy it is to applaud, honor, acknowledge, and embrace! Don’t forget: What you celebrate repeats itself. Costa Rica has put away the backstabbing and has moved on to [...]
At about 7 p.m. I was about to pay the cab driver for his kind service of 23 reais, when he said a heartfelt “parabens Costa Rica”. I didn’t try to contain my joy for a moment and prodded the conversation to [...]
While in England people are asking for the withdrawal of the advertising that shows their national team disqualified in Brazil, in our country the World Cup fever turns the protagonists into perfect brand ambassadors. In cases as wonderfully outstanding as that of [...]
The Big Winner Let’s assume that you are part of the general public, a non-advertiser, announcer or work with some communications or digital media. In a leveled playing field of people occupied living their happy lives, is there anyone out there that [...]
The greatest contradiction of the document is that it has no advertising, despite the fact that its protagonists gravitate or have gravitated for many years around advertising. Regarding the document, Suárez says that “we don’t care much about the visual, this magazine [...]
I met Carlos Suarez about 5 years ago in Cannes. Editor of Brands magazine in the Dominican Republic, he is an Argentinean with a Venezuelan soul and creative passion as if he were an advertiser. Controversial, provocative and incisive, Carlos came to [...]
In Incae we would say in one word that is the answer to every opinion or solution: it depends! With the theory of relativity explained by Einstein for all other mortals, when you sit with a beautiful girl for two hours, it [...]
FILM, FILM CRAFT AND TITANIUM AND INTEGRATED LIONS WINNERS ANNOUNCED UK WINS FIRST FILM CRAFT GRAND PRIX USA WINS FILM GRAND PRIX, INTEGRATED GRAND PRIX AND TITANIUM GRAND PRIX Cannes, 27 June 2010 – Yesterday, the final night of the Cannes Lions [...]
In a few hours the Film, Film Craft, Effectiveness, Integrated and Titanium awards will be over, as well as the awards for Production Company of the Year, Client of the Year, Network and Agency of the Year, both network and independent. And [...]
At the celebration of 100 years of his birth, David Ogilvy was remembered as saying that advertising is a force for good. He assured that it was about much more than sales and proposed to make a better world with it. In [...]
