A little girl leans motionless against a tree next to a street. Her complexion has a gray color. A child’s voice says “If you hit me at 40 miles and hour, there is an 80% chance that I will die.” The child’s body then slides eerily into the center of the street as she moves the blood that was dripping out of her ear slides back in and disappears and her color becomes pink and healthy. When she arrives in the middle of the street her eyes open and she gasps and sits up. The words “Hit at 30mph, 80% of people live. It’s 30 for a reason.”
Agency: AMV BBDO Andy McKay, art director; Mary Wear, copywriter; Trish Russell, producer Production Company: Academy Film Productions,Final Cut | London Walter Stern, director; Laura Kaufman, producer; Alex Barber, DP,Rick Russell, editor Postproduction: THE MILL, London Adam Scott, colorist; Chris Knight, visual effects supervisor/lead Flame artist; Ben Hampshire, producer Music: Square Peg Mark Revell, composer Audio: Wave Studio Parv Thind, audio mixer/sound designer
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 โNot Just the Factsโ 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. FactSetโs 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 spotsโa combination of :30s, :15s, :06s and nine โshortsโโacross multiple channels including digital, streaming and CTV.
This :30, โDinos,โ has an office workerโs relevant reference to dinosaurs spark our boorish colleague who proceeds to utter one irrelevant fact after another about the prehistoric creatures.
The Los Angelesโbased 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