Malcolm Venville of Anonymous Content directed this spot which shows how Microsoft Outlook.com gets you going by connecting you with others, including a stuntman and a man who builds a hovercraft. Agency is Deutsch New York.
Agency: Deutsch | New York Greg DiNoto, partner/chief creative officer; Paul Kekalos, group creative director; Luke Hughett, Sean Lee, associate creative directors; Lee Tone, sr. copywriter; Roxy Feldman, interactive art director; Joe Calabrese, sr. VP/director of broadcast production; Jenny Hile, sr. producer. Production Company: Anonymous Content Malcolm Venville, director; Paul Cameron, DP; Eric Stern, exec producer; John Benet, line producer; Bob Wagner, assistant director. Editorial: P.S. 260, Inc. JJ Lask, Maury Loeb, editors; Colin Edelman, Matt Posey, assistant editors; Laura Patterson, sr. producer; Zarina Mak, exec producer. Postproduction: Nice Shoes,Absolute Post (London & New York) Chris Ryan, colorist.,Morgane Furio, online editor. Visual Effects: Eight vfx Audio: Sound Lounge Tom Jucarone, 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