This ACE Hardware spot parodies home improvement shows. “Grass” finds a homeowner returning from a trip to Ace Hardware with products he intends to use to fix his lawn. As he exits his car, a crew from Shortcutz, descends upon him, and the host insists that he can give this guy a new green lawn. By spot’s end, he has a spray painted lawn. Use products from ACE if you want the job done right.
Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners Jeff Goodby, creative director/principal; Bob Winter, copywriter; Steve Mapp, art director; Tod Puckett, executive producer. Production Company: Hungry Man, Inc Bryan Buckley, director; Scott Henriksen, DP; Stephen Orent, partner/executive producer; Dan Duffy, executive producer; Caroline Gibney, head of production; Tom Rossano, staff producer; Kevin Byrne, producer; Steve Ruggieri, production supervisor. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Editorial: MacKenzie Cutler Ian Mackenzie, editor; Jimmy Hayhow, Smoke artist; John Geehreng, assistant Smoke artist. Visual Effects: Ntropic Jimi Simmons, Matt Tremaglio and Cole Schreiber, Flame artists. Music: Peligro Music and Sound Design Greg Kuehn, creative director/composer/sound designer; Jonnie LoFranco, executive producer. Sound Design: ripe sound,Peligro Music and Sound Design Andy Newell, sound designer.,Greg Kuehn, creative director/composer/sound designer; Jonnie LoFranco, executive pro
The Docter Twins Direct Part 2 Of FactSets’ “Not Just The Facts” Comedy Campaign From VSA 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 โNot Just the Factsโ 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. FactSetโs 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 spotsโa combination of :30s, :15s, :06s and nine โshortsโโacross multiple channels including digital, streaming and CTV.
This :30, โDinos,โ has an office workerโs relevant reference to dinosaurs spark our boorish colleague who proceeds to utter one irrelevant fact after another about the prehistoric creatures.
The Los Angelesโbased 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