In this teaser-style trailer, we see people all across the country looking skyward. Eventually we discover that their upward gaze is directed at the American advertising icon The Green Giant–though we don’t see him until the end tag and even then he's hidden in the shadows.
Nonetheless, it seems the Green Giant has awakened and is returning to the Valley once more. This short is part of a 360 campaign hinting at the Giant’s imminent return this fall.
The work is Deutsch New York’s first step in reinventing The Green Giant for a modern audience and making him just as culturally relevant to Americans now as he was in his glory days. “The Giant Awakens” was directed by Patrick Daughters via production house Gorgeous.
Credits
Client B&G Foods, Inc./Green Giant Agency Deutsch NY Pete Favat, chief creative officer, North America; Dan Kelleher, chief creative officer; Matt McKay, Menno Kluin, executive creative directors; James Cowie, Rich Kolopeaua, creative directors; Fanny Josefsson, copywriter; Joe Calabrese, director of integrated production; Andrea Curtin, executive producer. Production Gorgeous, West Hollywood, Calif. Patrick Daughters, director; Maddi Carlton, exec producer; Mala Vasan, line producer. Editorial Rock Paper Scissors, NY Adam Pertofsky, editor; Marjorie Sacks, assistant editor. Telecine MPC, London Jean-Clement Soret, colorist. VFX The Mill NY End Tag Animation/Graphics The Mill NY Music/Licensed Woodwork Music, London Audio Heard City, NY Phil Heard, sound designer/mixer
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
