Excitement is an emotion as well as a visceral feeling. It is a way in which we lose ourselves, which is the essence of the new spot for Swedish horse race betting company ATG.
In it, we follow a woman who wakes up to find a horse in her house, before she is catapulted through a fantastic journey.
Swedish agency Åkestam Holst and Danish director Martin de Thurah via production house Bacon teamed up to create this dream of a film. Through magical realism, subtle sound design, and poetic images, the audience is taken on a breathtaking and almost cathartic journey through the excitement of betting on horses.
(Director de Thurah is handled in the U.S. and U.K. by Epoch Films.)
Credits
Client ATG Agency Åkestam Holst NoA Joakim Khoury, creative director; Mark Ardelius, Jesper Holst, creatives; Harald Larsson, Henrik Sjuodin, stratgists; Helena de Brun, producer; Lotta Person, graphic designer. Production Company Bacon Martin de Thurah, director; Samuel Cantor, exec producer; Axel Herrlin, producer; Alina Gron, production manager; Staffan Kihlbom, 1st AD; Kasper Tuxen, DFF, DP; Greg Shoulder, production designer; Zeke Soderlund, set dresser; Johanna Borggren, stylist; Seth Ericson, stunt coordinator; Oscar Ohlson, drone operator; Daniel Casselby, Drone camera operator; Philip di Luca, horse wrangler. Editorial Bacon CPH Peter Brandt, editor; jasmin Falk Jensen, assistant editor; Louise Ryge, post coordinator. Color & VFX Post BaconX Jan Tvilling, VFX creative director; Elina Carranza-Pitcher, VFX exec producer; Cilie Kragegaard, head of production/sr. producre; Daniella Strand, color/VFX producer; Hannibal Lang, colorist; Mikkel Hansen, Mario Maruska, VFX lead; Kai Hauswirth, Thomas Banner, VFX artists; Lassse Selvli, Soren Knudsen, conform.
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
