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 […]
In this third entry regarding our advertising industry in Costa Rica, I bring to your screen a first and very simple proposal: let’s celebrate all the differences and since it is better to do it in a single forum, let’s coincide in [...]
At Incae I was taught a definition of strategy that I love. Strategy is about choices, about sacrificial decisions and about deliberately choosing to be different, as proposed by Michael Porter. Strategy is also about knowing clearly when to say no. Success [...]
In the twenty-something years of Tribu (formerly Consumer Publicidad), we didn’t always celebrate like we do now. We all know it and yet, we easily forget it. When we lost in a Pregonero or a Volcán, when we thought we were going [...]
Since ASCAP achieved the representation of the most important creative advertising festival in the world, the country has connected, competes and wins among the best of the planet. Advanced advertising agencies, in a stimulus to their creative talent, have achieved finalists, as [...]
Any professional working with a consumer brand should go to Cannes Lions. The reasons are more than a hundred, but here I copy and paste 10 excellent arguments for an advertiser client to decide to go. Tue 5 Apr 2011 10 reasons [...]
If it were not for La Nación, the past Volcán Festival would have gone completely unnoticed in the mass media. Neither Teletica Canal 7, nor Repretel, I never see it, nor Summa or Monumental, nor La República or La Extra have even [...]
On the same day that the Community announced the Effie, La Nación confirmed the next Pregonero with its newsletter inviting pre-registration. This is the image that accompanied the message. In Tribu we suffer with the Pregoneros, as they have usually been difficult [...]
Today I received an email from Lilliana Gonzalez, Executive Director and driving force of the Community (formerly ASCAP), which made me very happy: the second edition of the Effie is coming. She also brought this image that I loved: As if organizing [...]
Have you heard that expression that says: “como quitarle un confite a un niño”? Or the one that adds a bit of humor and says: “Como arrearle a un borracho jumo! Seriously, there are topics that no matter how complex or difficult [...]
Today I have a few questions for you, if it’s not too much to ask, after you watch at least a fragment of this video recorded freehand with a Flip. Five times a day in Muslim countries you can hear a call [...]
“Mae, Fidel! No! Mae, not so soon!”, we would have told him if we could have asked him for a few more days, one more composition, one more concert. In an unexpected move, Fidel surprised us again with his talent, although this [...]
We have all enjoyed or suffered the Oscars awards in Hollywood. A few on the site, and all the rest of us, happily do it on TV. It’s sensational! I enjoy watching the films first, and then the talent, creativity, production, innovation [...]
