Property and casualty insurance company Travelers has released its first brand campaign since 2015. The four-part ad series tells stories that tug at the heartstrings and remind us about the importance and value of insurance: to protect the things you love and the lives you’ve built around them.
TBWAChiatDay New York tapped Lance Acord of Park Pictures to direct the new campaign which features stories of children growing up, parents growing old and relationships wavering and strengthening along the way—as told through the lens of their love and resilience through life’s unexpected hardships, under the care and protection of Travelers.
In this spot, “Footsteps,” we meet a daughter who sits sketching at the counter of her father’s cafe. The dad reprimands her for drawing pictures when she could be helping with customers. We watch her grow up, the years unfolding through scenes of her exploring her passion, and her father not understanding–until the fire. Fast-forward to her father finding her portfolio of artwork which survived the flames. He now realizes how talented his daughter is.
Credits
Client Travelers Agency TBWAChiatDay, New York Chris Beresford-Hill, chief creative officer; Walter Connelly, executive creative director; Ashley Veltre, associate creative director/art director; Holden Rasche, associate creative director/copywriter; John Doris, head of integrated production; Chris Klein, executive producer; Sean Riojas, associate producer. Production Park Pictures Lance Acord, director/DP; Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Justin Pollock, Caroline Kousidonis, exec producers; Anne Bobroff, head of production. Editorial Exile Kirk Baxter, editor; Zaldy Lopez, assistant editor; Sasha Hirschfeld, exec producer; Evyn Bruce, head of production; Vietan Nguyen, post producer. Sound Design/Audio Mix Wave Studios Chris Afzal, sound designer/mixer; Vicky Ferraro, exec producer. Color MPC Mark Gethin, colorist; Meghan Lang, exec producer; Susan Harris, Damian Winterbottom, producers. VFX MPC Alvin Cruz, creative director; Camila De Biaggi, exec producer; Elissa Norman, Anna Kravtsov, producers; Rob Walker, lead Flame; Bilali Mack, Lawrence Merrill, Tamir Sapir, Tom McCullough, Thiago Porto, Flame artist; Mazyar Sharifian, Renato Carone, Nuke artists; Daniel Bayona, Sachin Dhapudkar, digital matte painting; Dan Fine, Lucy Choi, Francisco Fraga, Jemmy Molero, CG artists; Abhinav Sharda, line producer; Katherine Miccio, production coordinator.
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
