Max Malkin of PRETTYBIRD directed this :30 entitled “Sweet Dreams,” part of the “Let’s Get Living” campaign from CHI&Partners which provides perspectives on how people can enjoy the moments that matter by making use of Hive smart home plans and connected home products.
Airing across the UK, the US and Canada, “Sweet Dreams” focuses on a father holding his soundly sleeping baby. Dad realizes he is pinned to the sofa and the lights and TV are still on. The Hive app lets him fully enjoy this moment of calm as he dims the lights and turns the TV off without ruining the magic and waking his baby.
Credits
Client Hive Agency CHI&Partners Micky Tudor, joint executive creative director; Jay Fretwell, creative director; William Cottam, Duncan Brooks, creatives; Rob Steiner, TV producer; Ruby Hill, creative producer; Hannah Greene, production assistant. Production PRETTYBIRD Max Malkin, director; Ted Thornton, producer; John Lynch, DP. Color The Mill VFX Big Buoy Polly Durrance, producer. Editorial The Whitehouse Sam Gunn, editor; Antonia Porter, producer. Audio Wave Aaron Reynolds, Tom Heddy, engineers. Music Tin Drum Music
With one in five Brits (22%) experiencing a fraud attempt every single week, telecommunications company O2 and VCCP London’s AI creative agency faith have launched what's billed as a first-of-its-kind campaign to fight back against scammers.
At the heart of the campaign is Daisy, a lifelike, state-of-the-art, Conversational AI character designed to speak with scammers and keep them on the phone for as long as possible so they have less time to try and scam real people.
The newest member of O2’s fraud prevention team, Daisy was created using a range of cutting-edge AI technology and is indistinguishable from a real person. Based on a real-life relative of a VCCP employee to ensure total believability, Daisy was built to play on scammers’ own stereotypical views that older people are easier targets for scams. While anyone can be a victim of a scam, criminal fraud gangs often target the elderly, so by leaning into scammers’ own biases, Daisy became the perfect scambaiter.
Phoney fraudsters--including many posing as some of the UK’s most trusted businesses--thought they’d got their hands on an easy target, but Daisy has been beating them at their own horrible game, answering scam calls and wasting scammers calls as part of an awareness campaign which exposes fraudsters tricks and tactics and offers top tips on how to avoid scammers.
Daisy is able to interact in real-time ensuring no suspicions are raised on the other end of the line, and has worked 24/7, and over the course of many hours of scam calls she’s told meandering stories of her family, talked at length about her passion for knitting and provided false personal information including made-up bank details.
O2 and faith worked with leading U.K. scambaiter Jim... Read More
