Tomás Ostiglia is the Executive Creative Director of LOLA MullenLowe, one of the top 10 European agencies of the decade, as recognized by Cannes Lions. A force in global creativity, he was ranked the 11th Best Executive Creative Director in the world in The Drum Report 2025.
Throughout his career, he has consistently set the bar for creative excellence. In 2024, he was named Best Creative Director in Spain by The One Show—the same year he made history by winning the Grand Prix at Cannes Lions in OOH, marking the first-ever GP win for a Spanish agency in this category.
With over 20 years of experience, Tomás is a creative known for crafting bold, effective and award-winning campaigns that build and re-build brands.
Beginning his career as a copywriter at Ogilvy Buenos Aires, Tomás later moved to Spain to join FCB, where he advanced from late-night copywriter to the role of Executive Creative Director. He subsequently served as the General Creative Director at Arnold. In 2008, he returned to Argentina as the Chief Creative Officer at TBWA, before coming back to Spain to join LOLA MullenLowe in 2014.
During his time at LOLA, he’s played a crucial role in the agency securing a place among the world's Top 10 at Cannes Lions, and helping it climb up to 8th most awarded agency in Europe, the 2nd most awarded in Spain and Agency of the Year in the Classic Track in 2024! Also, the MullenLowe network has even been named in the top 10 creative networks, to his and his colleague’s credit.
He’s been a member of the Cannes Lions, Eurobest, Clio, LIA, Immortal Awards, El Ojo, and President of El Sol’s Jury, and hopes to participate in many more. Tomás is also a member of the MullenLowe Group Global Creative Council. Surrounding himself with brilliant ideas and creative individuals is where his home is.
Tomás is the executive creative director of LOLA MullenLowe in Madrid
He has more than two decades of experience crafting effective campaigns
Tomás has been responsible for award-winning work across brands like Magnum
We spent two minutes with Tomás to learn more about his background
his creative inspirations and recent work he’s admired
This helped me appreciate the tranquility of Madrid
I knew it would help me express my individuality
The Fab Four: John, Paul, George and Ringo
The first time I got on stage with my band to perform our songs in front of the entire school. The band was called Nirvana
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” was released
Bob Dylan
for teaching us everything that’s right
Holden Caulfield
Ana Chanfreau
Our first “Be True to Your Pleasure” film:
The one and only “Flat Eric” from BBH:
The agency with the coolest name—Mischief—and their “Rabbit Hole”:
I believe I am best at conceptualizing more than anything else
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Food advertising often risks feeling repetitive
we’re used to an arsenal of replayed gimmicks – slow motion
Not because it’s trying to reinvent the food and drink category for the sake of it
but because the product demands it.Magnum’s unmistakable chocolate crack isn’t just a sensory flourish
but a result of the way the ice cream is made – with real chocolate
as executive creative director at LOLA Mullen Lowe Tomas Ostiglia tells us.Magnum’s newest campaign
zeroes down on the fundamentals of what makes the brand iconic
The thick chocolate on each of their products is more just than a textural experience – it’s a sound
but making an audible statement of pleasure
One that might make your cat jump off the couch.It’s this sound that has been part of Magnum’s DNA for 35 years
it’s back in the spotlight in a way that feels both nostalgic and fresh
to striking slow-mo visuals and rich characters
the campaign turns a simple sound into the cultural moment it is – elegant
and totally ASMR.LBB’s Zoe Antonov caught up with Tomas to find out how the team elevated the signature sound beyond the realm of food advertising
Tomas> That unmistakable crack has been a Magnum brand asset for years
We re-recorded it using cutting-edge technology to capture the purest
most immersive sound possible – not just for one product but for every single variant
The classical score creates a beautiful contrast
heightening the reaction to that signature sound and making it resonate in unexpected ways
Tomas> The crack has always been there – it’s part of the product’s DNA
Bringing sound to life in a medium that doesn’t have sound
That’s why the layer covering the ice cream (sometimes holding a rich swirl of sauce) is the thickest in the category
it delivers a crack no other ice cream can match.We’re leading not just in quality
Tomas> Every tension within the world of pleasure is an opportunity for storytelling
Contrast makes communication more compelling – it breaks the mould
you can be both premium and ‘messy.’ It’s all about how you do it
there was this fascinating debate – some found the idea of biting into ice cream unusual
The crack had become a topic of conversation
There’s even a viral video where someone replaced the sound of Godzilla biting off a man’s head with the Magnum crack.This campaign leans into that cultural moment with humor and sophistication
embracing the very thing that people already love about Magnum
Tomas> We looked for spaces where silence is golden – where a sudden
we elevated the chaos into something stylized and captivating
you need a balance of elements – characters that are intriguing and authentic
situations that hold an element of surprise.And
Each setting reflects a different Magnum experience
reinforcing that crack at the heart of it all
Let’s just say we’ve found a way to make you hear the crack
He’s been working with us for over a decade
and he’s one of those rare directors who makes everything beautiful.He understands exactly what the brand needs – from casting
unmistakable pleasure of biting into a Magnum.It’s a brand campaign disguised as a product campaign – because even though we’re showcasing every Magnum variant
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Tomás Ostiglia (LOLA MullenLowe) Lourenço Thomaz (Dentsu Creative Iberia)
Ana Martín (Havas Media) y Javier Campopiano (McCann Worldgroup)
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El Festival Internacional de Creatividad Cannes Lions ha desvelado los expertos que integrarán el jurado encargado de seleccionar las mejores ideas creativas y efectivas de esta edición de 2025
Los ganadores se conocerán durante las distintas ceremonias del 16 al 20 de junio en la ciudad francesa de Cannes
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chief creative officer en Dentsu Creative Iberia
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A new 880MW unit is being installed at the Ostiglia combined-cycle power plant in Italy
The existing Ostiglia combined-cycle power plant (CCPP)
is being extended with the addition of a new 880MW combined-cycle unit
Italy-based electricity generation company EP Produzione
The expansion was proposed in July 2020 and is expected to be operational by 2025
The development of the new unit is in line with the objectives of Italy’s Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan, which is aimed at achieving decarbonisation while bolstering the security of the national electricity system. The new unit will supply clean energy to more than half a million households in Italy
The project is part of Terna’s Capacity Market programme
Terna designed the programme to procure energy by awarding long-term supply contracts through competitive bidding
The new unit is being developed within the existing Ostiglia thermoelectric power plant site
which spans 51ha on the left bank of the River Po
The site is found in the Ostiglia municipality of the province of Mantua
The existing power plant includes three combined-cycle gas turbine units with a total installed capacity of 1.13GW
The new Ostiglia CCPP unit will be a multi-shaft unit
consisting of gas and steam turbines that drive their own generators
The unit will also include state-of-the-art technology to facilitate optimum natural gas usage along with a high degree of flexibility
The plant will comprise a Siemens SGT5-9000HL gas turbine
SGen5-1200A steam turbine generator and heat-recovery steam generator
It will also include Siemens’s T3000 control system
which helps to ensure reliable power plant operations by supporting power plant operators
The system implements the highest cybersecurity standards and has received the IEC 62443 certification
a leading standard for IT security for industrial communication networks
the natural gas-fired power plant will be able to operate with up to 30% hydrogen fuel
The SGT5-9000HL gas turbine has the capacity to generate up to 880MW of power with more than 60% net efficiency
The gas turbine weighs 497,000kg and measures 13m (42.6ft) long
The turbine is capable of operating on fuels that include natural gas
liquified natural gas (LNG) and distillate oil
the SST5-5000 steam turbine can generate between 120MW and 700MW of power
It is suitable for CCPP as well as steam power plants and offers an efficiency of more than 64% in combined-cycle mode
The SGen5-3000W gas turbine generator weighs up to 425t and offers high operating flexibility
It incorporates a MICALASTIC® insulation system and Global Vacuum Pressure Impregnation (GVPI) technology
The new CCPP unit will feature Siemens Energy technology
which will substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions due to its high efficiency in comparison to coal or older gas-fired power plants
It will also maintain nitrogen oxide emissions at less than 10mg/Nm³
The air-cooled condenser in the plant will eliminate the need for water to be drawn from the nearby River Po for cooling purposes
It also features a flexible operating range
In February 2022, construction engineering company Fata, part of Danieli Group
signed an agreement to provide engineering
procurement and construction services for the project in a consortium with Siemens Energy
Siemens Energy will supply the gas turbine
heat recovery steam generator and control system for the expansion
It will also provide long-term services for all the equipment and components
Demont will be responsible for the mechanical erection of all plants, as well as the engineering, procurement and construction of the balance of plant piping
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Ice cream sales typically plunge with the temperatures
but an artsy black-and-white film from Unilever’s Magnum encourages consumers to use the treat as an escape from the winter blues
Created by agency LOLA MullenLowe and directed by Juan Cabral through MJZ Films
the 90-second “Find Your Summer” begins as a moody film depicting the bleakness of winter
the film transitions as sun breaks through and people enjoy a reprieve by soaking up the light and biting into a Magnum ice cream bar
Magnum’s goal with the campaign is to “challenge norms by selling ice cream in winter,” said LOLA MullenLowe executive creative director Tomás Ostiglia
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As consumers began referring to Magnum imitations as ‘Magnum-like’ ice creams
the brand saw an opportunity to showcase why only Magnum is “like Magnum”
The film tells the story of a woman who discovers that her partner has been buying fake Magnum ice creams all along
we aimed to demonstrate not only that a category referent can address new brands with elegance but also that a brand like Magnum can communicate with humour
we work really hard to make the highest quality
and we wanted to find a fresh way to tell our audience why it’s worth it for them to ‘stick to the original.’ LOLA Mullenlowe came up with a brilliant and funny way to dramatize our commitment to delivering true superior pleasure every time.”
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A Mantua businessman on Sunday caught an almost nine-foot long wels catfish or sheatfish in the Po and promptly freed it “so another fisherman or my children can feel the same thrill as I did”
adrenaline started pumping hard and the fear of losing it almost sent me into a panic,” Biancardi said
said he had waited “a lifetime to get a catch this big”
from 46th in 2024 to 49th place in 2025 in the Press Freedom Index drawn up every year by Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders - RSF)
Researcher and lecturer Flavia Marcello explores the fascist influence on the architecture of Rome
the race for the fourth Champions League qualifying spot from Italy’s Serie A has become even tighter
Napoli didn’t allow flares and delays to affect their performance as Antonio Conte’s side ground out a 1-0 win at Lecce to take firm control of Serie A in Italy
Fiorentina have lost the first leg of their UEFA Conference League semifinal tie 2-1 away to Real Betis
Inter Milan’s Serie A title defence is on the line with the busy champions chasing a fresher Napoli side who have the finishing line in sight
Carlo Ancelotti has turned down the Brazil job and is mulling a mega offer to coach Saudi Arabia
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Nicholas ‘Nick’ Renfree-Marks is somewhat of an expert on both
LONDON, UK — Magnum
is launching a new campaign that cleverly emphasizes its leadership and originality with a witty sense of humor
As consumers began referring to Magnum imitations as “Magnum-like” ice creams
the brand saw an opportunity to showcase why “Like a Magnum” is not Magnum
The campaign is now live in the UK and includes a series of TVC
and digital amplification that continues to develop the campaign’s insight while encouraging people to “stick to the original.”
we aimed to demonstrate that a brand like Magnum can communicate with humor
if done with good taste,” said Tomás Ostiglia
Executive Creative Director at LOLA MullenLowe Madrid
Magnum and its agency LOLA have pushed the boundaries of advertising
venturing into everything from fashion to music to film
celebrated drag queens and made designer beach towels that also help facilitate social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Magnum ice cream bars will be popping up outdoors this summer
LOLA MullenLowe commissioned American artist Brendan Monroe to create monochrome posters and murals
His surrealist bent and penchant for blobby shapes suits the brand’s aesthetic
Monroe’s work for Magnum features stylized ice-cream bars as its central motif
often summer-y manifestations of the brand’s “True to pleasure” ethos
Here’s a kicky 22-foot-high mural in central London’s Shoreditch district:
“The ice-cream shape is less distinct when you’re closer up
see the bigger picture and then be pleasantly surprised with solving the visual puzzle,” LOLA Mullen creative chief Tomás Ostiglia tells Muse
Those legs from the mural cross over to posters:
This hat-and-shades number is equally … chill:
you’ve got ice cream all over your face:
Magnum’s “pleasure” proposition does a body good:
“The natural media space for the ice cream category is outdoors in the summer
but we wanted to break with the norm and create art where the appetite appeal of the product is more suggestive,” Ostiglia says
“It is elegant and sophisticated, and the iconic ice-cream shape is so seamlessly integrated,” Ostiglia says. “Last year, we worked with Thomas Danthony, whose style was more art deco and colorful
the simplicity of black and white with the complexity of shadows and volumes.”
Hundreds of posters will appear around London in coming weeks
The brand accompanies them and shines a light on them
to make the point that pleasure can have many different meanings and layers.”
Along with Magnum (which even spoon-fed us this Game of Thrones homage), other ice-cream brands raising the bar include Halo Top and Pantera Fresca’s Bittersweet Collection.
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“Have you seen the new Lynx ads? What do you think of them?” LBB’s London office was certainly not alone in having this discussion after the fragrance brand dropped a brace of oddball dark comedy shorts created by LOLA MullenLowe and directed by Lionel Goldstein.‘Robbery’ and ‘Funeral’ are
But they do have the tendency to leave the viewer with that “What the hell did I just watch” feeling
They just feel profoundly different to the sort of advertising – and the sort of depictions of robberies and funerals – that we’re used to seeing.There is a kernel of familiarity in there though
for anyone familiar with Lynx’s advertising heritage
both films revolve around the attractive fragrance of the product.Astounded that this campaign actually got made – and is running in cinemas and online across the UK and Türkiye
as well as in various Latin American countries such as Mexico
and Uruguay this month – LBB’s Alex Reeves chats to LOLA MullenLowe executive creative director Tomas Ostiglia to hear more
MADRID, SPAIN — Oumph! is back with a new spectacular campaign. Adopt a Carnivore, the award-winning Swedish plant-based brand, challenges plant-based consumers to adopt a carnivore for Veganuary
“We would like to invite everyone who’s curious to try a plant-based diet to do so with enthusiasm and encouragement
rather than making demands of them or by pointing guilty fingers
We all know of that one curious colleague that stares into your lunchbox
that sister who’s curious but too lazy to try
or that grandma who wonders what this new plant-based food is all about
“The idea behind Adopt a Carnivore is that it’s more likely that people take on a challenge like Veganuary if they do it in collaboration with a friend”
and Head of Marketing at LIVEKINDLY Collective Nordics
Executive Creative Director at LOLA MullenLowe
says: “We love to challenge vegans to adopt a carnivore
feeding them our plant-based delicious options
We are keen to develop campaigns that will make the difference while doing it in an innovative and funny way.”
Adopt a Carnivore features a range of advertising campaigns
as well as social media and high-profile celebrity collaborations
and will be running throughout Veganuary in a number of different countries where Oumph
“January is the perfect month to try plant-based food”
“Many people make boring New Year’s resolutions which are attached to depriving oneself of pleasure
I would like to encourage a January filled with exceptionally good food
Plant-based food can be amazing and Veganuary is the perfect time to share it with everyone you know.”
When Burger King’s marketing teams aren’t setting fire to just about everything these days
they’re putting the torch to mega-rival McDonald’s
In the newest installment of its ongoing effort to troll the golden arches
Burger King is again leveraging a lingering (and apparently international) cultural fear of clowns
LOLA MullenLowe, the Spanish agency that won global acclaim for its Scary Clown Night promotion—which gives free Whoppers to those who dress as clowns on Halloween—has a new series of print ads featuring real photos of children terrified in the presence of clowns
“Birthdays should be happy,” reads each ad
followed by copy encouraging fans to book a “clown-free birthday party” at Burger King
“Burger King knows that birthdays are a very big deal for kids
and we believe they should be fun and clown-free,” says Marcelo Pascoa
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technology and marketing innovation for more than a decade
Classic stick ice cream born in 1989 Magnum
has recently decided to address its copycats with its newest humorous campaign by LOLA MullenLowe.In the spot
a woman finds out that her partner has been buying ‘fake Magnums’
She asks herself what else he might be lying about and embarks on a journey through their home
edited photographs from alleged adventures
fake weights at their home gym and even a fake moustache. Deeply unsettled by the knock-off lifestyle she hadn’t previously suspected
the woman storms off to the nearest supermarket to get herself a pack of real Magnums. Centred around the insight that customers often succumb to imitation ‘Magnum-like’ ice creams
the brand knew that humour was the right tone to convey the main message of this campaign: Only Magnum is like Magnum.LBB’s Zoe Antonov spoke to managing director at LOLA Tom Elliston and Tomas Ostiglia
to find out more about the casting and writing of the campaign
as well as the agency’s long-standing relationship with the brand
Burger King raised quite a few eyebrows last year with its Burning Stores print ad campaign, which featured real fires at the chain’s locations alongside a simple message: “Flame grilled since 1954.” It was a counterintuitive way to approach advertising
but the work by agency David Miami was also a hit
winning the 2017 Print Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions
Now the brand is back with ads in a similar vein
though this time with a new kind of accident: car crashes
the ads feature cars that crashed while trying to drop by Burger King locations around the world