By Gonzalo López Martí @LopezMartiMiami
Creative awards are a necessary sand box for our profession.
No question about it.
Awards can give you visibility.
Awards are healthy boosters for an executive’s career.
Not necessarily for said executive’s employer, mind you.

As part of the Commercials Contracts negotiated last year between SAG-AFTRA and advertisers, all ads made under a union contract must now incorporate Ad-ID.
These days, brands work with too many agencies, creating a sense of strategic competition, and the big-idea model has shifted to a series of smaller ideas, customized to a billion potential eyeballs.
Lopez Negrete Communications, Inc. unveiled a new Social Media Intelligence Center at its Houston headquarters. The new state of the art command center will be utilized by the agency’s digital and social media teams to monitor, analyze and engage real-time social conversations for its premier list of clients.
Dallas-based ad agency Richards/Lerma has been selected as creative agency of record by Pizza Patrón. The relationship will have the agency assisting in traditional, digital, social media and public relations programs for the Mexican centric pizza chain as well as some creative input on naming and product development work.
This month, just a week after being awarded “Best of Show” at the American Advertising Federation’s 52nd annual American Advertising Awards in Houston, Lopez Negrete Communications, Inc. also won Full Service Agency of the Year at the Media Alliance of Houston Star Awards Gala.























