Volvo Cars has launched its new small fully electric SUV designed to have the smallest carbon footprint of any Volvo to date. Volvo is indeed betting big on the next small thing being its EX30.
Teaming with agency AKQA and production partner Mill+, Volvo has rolled out this hero film–powered by a “Small is Mighty” philosophy–in which Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan introduces the new SUV in a whimsical play on the familiar unboxing trend. A mini, regular and giant Jim Rowan playfully highlights the key features of the EX30 in equally proportioned models of the car.
Joshua Stocker directed the film–titled “The Unboxing”–via Mill+.
Credits
Client Volvo Agency AKQA Group Adam Stark, designer; Fraser Cheetham, creative; Andrew Lopez, art director; Vi Dang, associate designer; Marika Groning, production designer; Simon Magnusson, sr. copywriter; Fernando Lobina, Sam Tablada, Linus Lovbacka, Eduarda Nieto, sr. designers; Doug Higman, sr. motion designer; Sebastian Regfeldt, Jesper Stahl, sr. creatives; Shiko Murai, Anders Wiberg, sr. art directors; David Svedenstrom, Sergio Faria, Laura Hunter, associate creative directors; Ander Hernando, designer director; Oliver Duggan, Pierre Saladin, Jon Ward, John Gibson, Sam Haynes, creative directors; Miles Unwin, group creative director; Laura Visco, chief creative officer; Peter Lund, global chief creative officer; Gil Caldwell-Dunn, strategy director; Miriam Plon Sauer, exec strategy director; Artur Johansson, associate strategy director; Pelle Westerback, John Kershaw, Josh Riordan, sr. producers; Uros Petrevski, user experience director. Interior Design: Nick Rolls, creative director; Sara Mitrova, sr. designer; Ellen Hurst, Niels Hersmann, Clara Janka, Ashley Ward, Alex Geal, designers; Marta Ferreiro, 3D artist; Andrea Fogliani, jr. 3D artist; Ivana Sehic, freelance design director; Marie Magnien, freelance designer. Production Company Mill+ Joshua Stocker, director; Johnny Blick, exec producer; Richard Skinner, head of creative development; Tim Tyrrell, producer; Timothy Green, DP; Vanessa Duquesnay, VFX supervisor; Gilles Balabaud, art director/production designer; Ben Harrex, editor; Katie Dymmock, colorist. Music Composition: Chut! On Vous Ecoute. Arnaud Astruc, Benjamin Fournier-Bidoz, Nicolas Duperron, composers/arrangers. Music Track: “Little Things mean a lot”; Bettye Swann, performer; EMI FEIST CATALOG INC. Sony/ATV’s share of the Composition, original publisher.
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
