Every Sunday, during my morning cafecito (or yerba mate), I’ll share three powerful ideas transforming culture. Some ideas will be ads or about advertising. Some may be about design or fashion. Others will be about art, illustration, animation, motion, audio, cinema, books, or any other big idea worth sharing and discussing. You get the idea.
IDEA 1: Flirtation (planning) in Advertising
It started with a pun. Häagen-Dazs put up a billboard in Toronto's west end: "Let's grab a pint." They meant ice cream. Stella Artois read beer — and within days, booked the billboard space right next to it: "Are you asking us out?"
No coordination. No joint brief. No agency handshake. Stella's team at DraftLine spotted the opportunity, moved fast, and owned the punchline before the moment passed. Häagen-Dazs and Courage weren't done: they pulled up a mobile billboard truck with the final word — "Depends. You into spooning?" — and parked it in front of both boards.
Three lines. Two brands. One of the best OOH exchanges in recent memory. The lesson: the best reactive advertising doesn't wait for permission. It just moves.
IDEA 2: No wheel. No pedals.
Tesla launched the Cybercab in Austin. A two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel, no accelerator, no brake pedal, and no traditional controls of any kind. Forty-five vehicles. Paying customers. Real rides.
No public livestream, in a world where every product launch is a content event, Tesla quietly rolled out what might be the most consequential vehicle since the Model T — and let the rides speak for themselves. Meanwhile, people in Austin were already in the back seat going somewhere.
Whether intentional or not, the restraint was the message: the future doesn't need a keynote.
IDEA 3: Mighty Mini
Apple skipped a generation. The new Mac Mini went from M4 straight to M6 — no explanation needed. Five by five inches. 40% faster CPU. 2x faster graphics. 4x faster AI performance (they say). Same body as before. More power than most people will ever need to use Chrome, in something small enough to hide behind a monitor.
"The far mightier Mac Mini." Apple didn't reinvent the box. They reloaded it. And in a moment when AI performance is the new spec everyone cares or thinks about, the smallest desktop in their lineup just became the most interesting one. Small (and made by hand) is the new flex.
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From Antes de que llegue el Brief (ADQLEB) Podcast
On the latest episode, I sat down with Gabriel René Rodríguez Rovira — Director of Digital & Technology at De La Cruz / Ogilvy. We talked about 20 years building at the intersection of creativity, strategy and tech, the projects that put Puerto Rico's tourism on the digital map, and why the traditional agency model is broken.
Link below if you want to listen while you scroll.
→ adqleb.com/gabrielrene
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