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 took on the idea as our own in 2001, when in Auckland, New Zealand, Kevin Roberts shared his idea with us. In April 2003, we presented it publicly in an unforgettable presentation at the gray building site of the top floor [...]
With the best Tribe in its almost 20 years of existence, last night the Volcán lent us its stage to receive 14 Volcanes, including the Golden Volcán for Graphics, the Volcán for Best Film and Television Commercial, the Golden Volcán for Best [...]
With great expectation and excitement, as well as admiration and respect for the work of the entire ASCAP team, today is the night of Volcán in Costa Rica, the most anticipated creative advertising contest of the year. Without further ado, before knowing [...]
Although Garnier BBDO wants to repeat agency of the year and jotabeqú wants to regain that status, the truth is that next Thursday’s Volcano has no favorites, or as they say, it could be a surprise. Personally, I think it will be [...]
I fully identify with all those who complain about the enormous distance between day-to-day life and what goes to a festival, when it comes to advertising creativity and commercial messages. It would be great if consumer activists united to demand that advertisers [...]
2014 brings us thousands and perhaps millions of blogs, tweets, images, videos and more, with proposals to make 2014 the best year ever. However, nothing will happen in the next 12 months that will surpass the upcoming World Cup in Brazil in [...]
In October 2010 I accepted an invitation from Google to attend a meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. Its name intrigued me from the first moment and then completely captivated me: Zeitgeist. On YouTube I found a summary of that experience, which in some [...]
In November 2009 a lifelong dream came true, when I was able to see and photograph the great Mount Everest from a distance. I did so from the Kalapatar, which although it reaches an elevation of 5,550 meters in elevation, in the [...]
On Incae ‘s last visit to Tribu DDB, who rightfully become a tribe for life, at the close of the activity I was asked, “Did you know that there is another Tribu Group?”, and of course my answer was negative amidst immediate [...]
The country would be different if instead of a parliament we had an ombudsman(I heard this from Otto Peraza a few years ago). If we were given two ears that listen and a mouth that speaks, wouldn’t that be a clear and [...]
You will probably agree with me that we live between poles. Whether you like them or not, whether they shock you a little or too much, whether they attract you or bore you, life goes inexorably between one pole and the other. [...]
