This spot opens like a beauty product demo as we see a woman applying a skin creme to her face on “day one.” The twist is that she starts out with a perfect complexion and as we move through subsequent days, the creme makes her face look progressively worse, with breakouts of acne and what look like open sores. Turns out the label on the beauty product jar is marked “Racism.” A voiceover relates, “The more you apply it, the uglier you get.”
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi David Nobay, creative director; Tim Hall, copywriter; Noah Reagan, art director; Karen Bryson, producer. Production Company: 8 Commercials Tim Gibbs, director (who๏ฟฝs represented in the U.S. by Mirror Films, Hollywood); Mike Vanderfield, executive producer/producer; Graeme Wood, DP. Editorial: Post Office, Sydney Peter Barton, editor Postproduction: Post Modern,the LaB sydney Drew Downes, online editor,Ben Eagleton, colorist Audio: Nylon Studios Simon Lister, audio 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 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