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 […]
Technology is the most powerful accelerator in advertising creativity. Brands around the world are proliferating and next June Cannes will have more cases that prove this to be true. The speed of change is only increasing and today it is reckless. Let’s [...]
The future begins today, as a phrase could rightly be described as trite. However, it reflects a powerful truth that I do not recommend ignoring (it can be very expensive!). That’s right, the future will be nothing more or less than the [...]
In the year in which Apple celebrates 30 years of having launched Macintosh to the world, a new Apple commercial has come to fill our spirits with poetry. This time it is with the text of an excerpt from the movie Dead [...]
My maternal grandfather’s name was Clemente Alpírez Garay. I never knew him because he died in 48 when he was the victim of an ambush. He was shot while shouting “viva viva” to Don Pepe on his way back to the house [...]
From last year we found extraordinary examples to persuade you to invest in creativity, production and talent, if you are one of the people in charge of a brand. That brand could be a mass consumer brand, such as Red Bull or [...]
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 [...]
With less than two weeks until my next marathon, these videos are a marvel for motivation as I write with a cold and torn to shreds from an extremely untimely flu. The variables for a marathon, as for almost everything in life, [...]
When you count the years in decades and one or two are no longer enough, it is time to recognize the ball or pineapple, whatever you want to call it, but clearly the amount of time that has accumulated as in my [...]
I spent 10 years of my life at McCann-Erickson, from the first as an advertiser to the last as an employee. Today I have little left of that company, as I have changed and so has McCann. However, the affection and appreciation [...]
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I came across on our YouTube channel, TribuTV, this very simple video that we used when we were Consumer and then adapted when we called ourselves Tribu. I was struck by the words chosen years ago, because today they are in the [...]
Take a look at this video and let me know what you find unusual. It’s a look at North Point in Alpharetta, Georgia and a talk that has one simple difference: the speaker is on video. That’s right. The video church [...]
