On the heels of a ground-breaking 11-year deal with the NFL to showcase Thursday Night Football on Prime Video, Amazon has partnered with advertising agency Little Hands of Stone and production company Hungry Man to show NFL fans how Alexa can crank up the game experience.
For football fans, the game is about more than just the game. It’s about how they watch the game and who they watch it with. And stats. And food. And trash-talking.
“NFL football is a team sport. Not just when you play it, but when you watch it. That’s why most fans have a crew they like to watch football with,” said Matt McCain, co-founder of Seattle’s Little Hands of Stone. “Working with the team at Amazon, we are introducing a crew that wouldn’t be complete without Alexa, to celebrate and commiserate on a weekly basis. In this case, every Thursday night.”
This new national campaign, directed by Dan Opsal at Hungry Man, highlights this lovable, semi-dysfunctional new crew. We follow them through the highs, lows, and arguably regrettable moments that come with watching football together.
Each spot shows off new ways Alexa enhances the game experience. This campaign kickoff spot, “Chili,” centers on two guys whose voices are unintelligible due to the chili pepper-laden game food they’re consuming–thus Alexa cannot respond to their command to replay the touchdown. Thankfully a woman intervenes, telling Alexa to show the TD again.
Client Amazon Anali Charbonneau, Alexa brand marketing; Adam Dalgleish, sr. manager, Alexa global brand & media; Francesca Greggs, creative director, Alexa brand marketing; Kelsey Stokes, brand & campaign marketing manager. Agency Little Hands of Stone Michael Boychuk, Matt McCain, co-founders; Kris Dangla, executive producer; Tiffany Stone, creative operations lead. Production Company Hungry Man Dan Opsal, director; Stephen McGehee, DP; Mino Jarjoura, managing partner/exec producer; Dan Duffy, exec producer/head of sales; Caleb Dewart, exec producer; Buzzy Cancilla, line producer. Editorial Hungry Man Michael Feldman, editor; Franchesca McDowell, producer. Audio Lime Studios Zac Fisher, sound designer & audio mixer; Klaudia Bennett, audio assistant. Cast Angela Giarratana, Willie Mac, Sonny Valicenti
The Docter Twins Direct Part 2 Of FactSets’ “Not Just The Facts” Comedy Campaign From VSA Partners
FactSet, a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider, has partnered with Chicago-based creative agency VSA Partners to unveil a second round of spots in its “Not Just the Facts” campaign. The campaign originally launched back in April.
The campaign was built on a core strategic insight: While quality data is critical for financial professionals, facts in isolation provide little value. FactSet’s personalization, data connectivity, open and flexible technology, and dedicated service and support provide the context necessary for the investment community to turn facts into valuable insights--and make the most of them.
The new creative picks up where the previous left off. This time it focuses on a particularly boorish office worker, drolly played by character actor Wyndham Maxwell, who ticks off an encyclopedic list of facts and non sequiturs during business meetings and to the bemusement of his colleagues.
The tongue-in-cheek campaign, which plays more like a perfect-pitch comedy series than a typical B2B commercial effort, is a major departure from financial services industry norm--both in its use of humor and in its humanistic approach. Starting this week, FactSet will roll out 16 unique spots—a combination of :30s, :15s, :06s and nine “shorts”—across multiple channels including digital, streaming and CTV.
This :30, “Dinos,” has an office worker’s relevant reference to dinosaurs spark our boorish colleague who proceeds to utter one irrelevant fact after another about the prehistoric creatures.
The Los Angeles–based Docter Twins (Matthew and Jason Docter) directed the original campaign and this new humorous work through their production company, Thinking Machine. The identical twin... Read More