A young man walks through double doors into a dark room. The commercial inquires “What if you could visit yourself in the future?” He steps into a spiral stairway and looks up through the center of the spiral. He opens an apartment door and there is an ape behind the door (Planet of the Apes style). New reels with apes and many historic events peopled by apes are quickly displayed in series. The commercial flashed back to the apartment door. The ape in the apartment takes off his mask and says “Wow, its ME!” Sounds of a party filter out from behind him. The old version of the man says “come in and meet my friends.” The AMF Pension logo is displayed with “more to live for.”
Agency: Foresman & Bodenfors, Stockholm Jacob Nelson, copywriter; Lotta Agerup, art director; Magnus Kennhead, producer; Anna Chantre, production manager; Leif Sorte, project manager Production Company: Social Club Jesper Ericstam, director; Magnus Theorin, producer; Carl Sundberg, DP Postproduction: Fireplace, Stockholm,Sto.pp Edward Negussie, colorist,Johan Boije, online editor Sound Design: Housework Martin Dahl, sound designer Audio: Housework Martin Dahl, audio post mixer
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