In this spot, part of ESPN’s long-running branding effort “Without Sports,” an animated family dejectedly watches a Buffalo Bills game, resigned to the fact that the team will once again lose. Suddenly, a play results in a surprise touchdown, leading to jubilation. Alas, the merriment it short-lived, with the referee disqualifying the touchdown. The spot ends with the tag, “Without Sports, We’d Stop Believing.”
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy | New York. Todd Waterbury and Kevin Proudfoot, creative directors; Paul Renner and Derek Barnes, associate creative directors; Scott Hayes, copywriter; Eric Stevens, art director; Gary Krieg, executive producer; Jesse Wann, producer. Production Company: LAIKA/house Mark Gustafson, director; Eric Adkins, DP; Nelson Lowry, art director; Gesine Kratzner, character designer; Lourri Hammack, executive producer; Paul Diener, senior producer. Visual Effects: LAIKA/house Cam Williams, editor; Rex Carter, Flame artist. Music: Endless Noise Jeff Elmassian, creative director/composer; Andy Rehfeldt, composer; Shari Christensen, executive producer. Sound Design: Downstream, Portland Lance Limbocker, sound designer/mixer.
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