For many publicists is a dream that one of their pieces of work reaches out to Time Square in New York, the only place in the world where people, actually, travel to see advertising. … read moreHow to sell and promote tourism of Guatemala, a small and beautiful country, there in one of the major cities on the planet? With that brief of The Guatemalan Tourism Institute (INGUAT) in mind, Ricardo Mendoza, Chief Creative Officer of d4 McCANN Guatemala, and his team thought that the greatest strength of Time Square was also its greatest weakness: saturation. This way, they proposed to ‘hack’ one the screens with the message “Now come to a place without billboards”. After this, a quick scene with Semuc Champey river (which means “where the river is hidden downhill” in the Yucatec Maya language) was revealed, with the phrase “Come to Guatemala” inviting to think of that nation as a next destination. During the Project development the group had its fear of advertising something simple in a place that is bursting with technology and digital overproductions. Mendoza says that “curiously the way we took was the least expected one, to anti- advertise showing a destination without broad avenues, skyscrapers, or hundreds of thousands of people visiting it every day, just natural beauty almost unexplored”.
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