The animated profiles series for Google Play in tandem with Pop-Up Magazine’s California Sunday continues with a look at musician/comedian Reggie Watts.
In this piece, animated by Drew Tyndell, Watts discusses his penchant for model airplanes, Sesame Street, how he prepares (or doesn’t) to go onstage to perform, and the intrinsic health benefits of life in California.
This is the latest in a series of animated pieces celebrating how California has helped to shape and influence the careers of successful artists.
Credits
Client Google Play/California SundayAgency BBH, Los Angeles Pelle Sjoenell, executive creative director; Josh Webman, Peter Albores, creative directors; Florencio Zavala, design director; Kristian Grove Moller, associate creative director. Animation Drew Tyndell, animator/illustrator/director. Music Shannon Ferguson Audio Mooj Zadie, sound production; Kevin Ferguson, sound recording.
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
