When he learns that Jennifer Love Hewitt “hangs out with dead people” in the CBS primetime series Ghost Whisperer, a nerdy guy jumps out of his apartment window. He falls several stories to land face down atop a parked van. As he lays motionless, a super appears accompanied by the CBS logo; the super reads, “Ghost Whisperer. Fridays 8 p.m.”
Agency: Cliff Freeman & Partners Cliff Freeman, chief creative officer; Arthur Bijur, chief creative director; James Maravetz, copywriter; Jason Hoff, copywriter; Sherrod Melvin, art director; Clair Grupp, executive producer; Greg Tharp, producer. Production Company: Epoch FIlms, NY Office Matt Aselton, director; Jerry Solomon, Mindy Goldberg, executive producers; Peter Donahue, DP Editorial: Spot Welders, Inc Dick Gordon, editor Postproduction: The Mill, New York,Nice Shoes Fergus McCall, colorist,John Shea, flame artist Visual Effects: Ring of Fire Jerry Spivack, on-set visual effects supervisor/creative director; John
Myers, executive producer; Thomas Downs, Inferno artist. Audio: hsr/ny Steve Rosen, 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