Technology Director · 2011 — 2012 · Cuko / BBDO
Technology Director at Cuko — the digital startup of BBDO Argentina (Pablo Caparra and Javier Guía). Led in-house and external teams building campaigns, platforms and digital product. Lápiz de Platino and Oro Interactivos for work on Casancrem (Danone), Bon o Bon (Arcor), Clear (Unilever) and Alto Palermo.
After New Zealand, settled back in Buenos Aires, I joined Cuko, the digital startup of BBDO Argentina led by Pablo Caparra and Javier Guía. A boutique experiment built to do what traditional agencies still couldn’t: digital campaigns + platforms + digital product.
I took the role of Technology Director, leading in-house and external teams. We did campaigns for Casancrem (Danone), Bon o Bon (Arcor), Clear (Unilever), Alto Palermo, Moni and Nosotras, platforms with real-time videocalls and chat (Casanhelp reached over 300k unique users), and experiments like packaging QR codes back when phones didn’t read them natively.
A brutal learning curve with Pablo Caparra — that’s where I learned to think integrated campaigns and to cross creativity with technology for the first time. This was the era when “creative technologist” still sounded weird — now it’s an industry.
From there, I left with the Cuko partners to found Pow.
Dominios Dominadores — read the story
Dominios Dominadores (2013) was an acclaimed digital campaign we built at Cuko for Casancrem (Danone). The strategy: rank 10 unbranded sites (no brand visible) on Google’s first page to dominate search results around category-related queries.
Goal: generate organic presence through multiple coordinated sites — a tactic recognized for its high effectiveness in search engines.
Awards:
- Lápiz de Oro & Platino Interactivo (Editorial Dossier).
- Recognition at Premios Diente.
Casanhelp — read the story
Casanhelp was the first cloud-based collaborative cooking platform, launched by Casancrem (Danone) and built by Cuko. It let users help each other in real time via videocalls and chat to solve cooking questions while they cooked.
Beyond recipes, the site was built on collaboration and recognition — two pillars of cooking and the digital world. Users created profiles, declared which dishes they could cook, and uploaded their recipes. By helping others, they could become “Casanchefs” of the dishes they cooked best. If a recipe used Casancrem as an ingredient, they earned bonus points.
Results 6 months after launch:
- More than 300,000 unique visitors.
- 40,000 registered users.
- 800+ recipes uploaded by the community.
- 20,000+ recipes saved to personal cookbooks.
Awards: Lápiz de Oro Ciber 2013 · Wave Festival Rio 2013.
Bon o Bon — Besos Conectados — read the story
In 2014, agency Leo Burnett brought us in to design the creative and produce the flagship campaign “Semana de la Dulzura” for Bon o Bon.
We created Besos Conectados, a platform that let users generate chains of kisses through Facebook. A user would send a Bon o Bon to a friend, starting a chain. Via Facebook, the invitee would get a notification letting them join and continue the chain by sending a kiss back to the previous user and a Bon o Bon to another user, growing the sequence of kisses and messages.
Results:
- Over 6,500 chains were created.
- Over 10,000 people participated.