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 […]
As the years go by, in 2012 it is estimated that 50% of sales will be in digital media. Is it possible? For many people like me, we like to buy more and more online. In fact, Aaron Shapiro argues that no [...]
Virtual currency is basically a digital medium of exchange. With a business dimension that already reaches half a trillion dollars in the world, we are facing a concept as difficult to understand today as the credit card was 40 years ago. Reynolds, [...]
Attention! The giant Google is today also a creative agency, working live with clients fascinated to see the innovation it proposes. It has reimagined advertising with its Project Re-Brief? Or is it the same chicken and rice with a different recipe? In [...]
Emily Pilloton presented in the EF Hall at the Austin Convention Center during SXSW and drew us in because of the name of her talk, because she was a TED talker and because she brought ideas worth adding to the moleskin and [...]
I came across this talk and the room was half empty. Then I understood, for at a conference like SXSW on technology and innovation, the topic seemed to be completely out of our interest. And indeed, this turned out to be a [...]
Napoletano uses fucking like commas, she’s strong, has an impactful personality and says she doesn’t mind losing business, if she loses it because of who she is. I’m 10 feet away from her as she speaks at SXSW and I can’t tell [...]
Alita came to Consumer one day for an emergency. We had thrown out several campaigns, we were about two weeks behind in the presentation of the campaign to Banex, and we were out of time. The trash can was full of ideas [...]
My compadre and mega bati ultra super super super super talented Pana, made for Consumer the first designs. In fact, as a freelance, they were for Cofala’s line of antitussives. Ex-partner of McCann, when Consumer started we rented together a loft near [...]
When Kevin came to Tribu last July, if I am not mistaken, it broke a paradigm of many years, because it is assumed that our countries are not big enough, that our agencies are only affiliates, and that the agendas of global [...]
The 10 hottest years in recorded history have occurred in the last 15 years. CO2 levels are estimated to be the highest in at least 650,000 years. From El País, the following summary of the declaration in Paris regarding the climate crisis [...]
This is one of those ideas that managed to get on the air, boost the brand and achieve leadership in several markets in the region, thanks to the determination and guts of one person: Enrique Boccaletti, who as head of SmithKline Beecham [...]