Doug Werby of production house kaboom directed this spot titled “Tess” featuring Special Olympics World Games golfer Tess Trojan. “Tess” is part of a campaign conceived by agency Hill Holliday honoring the 2015 Special Olympics on behalf of sponsor Bank of America.
Werby credited Trojan with capturing the spirit of the Special Olympics. “Tess articulated it perfectly–judge the ability, not the disability,” said Werby. “This is the spirit of Special Olympics.”
Client Bank of America/Special Olympics Agency Hill Holliday, Boston Spencer Deadrick, executive VP, group creative director; Will Uronis, sr. VP, group creative director; Ian Catmur, VP, associate creative director; Michael Langone, sr. designer; Brian Gonsar, executive producer; Molly Troy, assistant producer. Production kaboom, San Francisco Doug Werby, director; Lauren Schwartz, exec producer; Steven Sills, producer; Petr Stepanek, DP. Editorial Arcade, New York Brad Waskewich, Jen Dean, editors; Dan Gutterman, Laurel Smoliar, assistant editors.
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
