No need to use your hands to reach across the dinner table for a delicious King's Hawaiian roll. Family members instead just suck with vacuum-like power and the rolls jet right to their mouths. Even a neighbor across the street is able to enjoy a roll as he sucks one that flies through an open window right to his waiting lips.
Brian Billow of Anonymous Content directed this offbeat comedic slice of life for Energy BBDO Chicago.
Credits
Client King’s Hawaiian. Agency Energy BBDO Chicago. Dan Fietsam, chief creative officer (he has since departed the agency); Rick Hamann, SVP/group creative director (has since left the agency); Amy Ditchman, creative director/art director; Rowley Samuel, EVP/head of integrated production; Patty Phassos, senior producer. Production Company Anonymous Content, bicoastal/international. Brian Billow, director; Igor Jadue, DP; Eric Stern, SueEllen Clair, executive producers; Mark Hall, producer. South Pictures, Santiago, Chile. Maria Paz Zedán, Ryan Wagner, executive producers; Veronica Figueroa, line producer. Shot on location outside Santiago, Chile. Visual Effects/Post MassMarket Editorial Beast, Chicago. John Dingfield, editor; Kendall Fash, producer. Post Company 3, New York. Tim Masick, colorist. Audio Audio Producers Group, Chicago. Peter Erazmus, sound engineer; Mindy Verson, David Kaplan, producers/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