As song All Night Long by Lionel Richie is played the camera flips through dark night scenes illuminated by green light. The scenes are of nocturnal animals like mice, owls, frogs and bats dancing and lip-syncing to the music. An announcer says “energy meets soda, introducing Mountain Dew MDX. Be nocturnal.”
Agency: BBDO North America, Atmosphere BBDO Dave Lubars, chief creative officer; Bill Bruce, executive creative director; Peter Kain, associate creative director/copywriter; Gianfranco Arena, associate creative director/art director; Amy Wertheimer, senior producer; Loren Perkins, executive music producer. Editorial: Nomad Editorial Company Tom Muldoon, editor. Postproduction: Company 3 New York Tim Masick, colorist; Luana Ayres. Visual Effects: Framestore NY Maryanne Lauric and Murray Butler, Flame artists; Iggy Ayestaran, Seth Gollub and Irene Kim, CG animators; James Razzall, producer. Sound Design: Nomad Editorial Company Francois Blaignon, sound designer. Audio: Sound Lounge Tom Jucarone, mixer. Stock Footage: Nickerson Research Susan Nickerson, president.
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