In BrownCo’s “Asterisk” BrownCo mocks its competitors who have too much fine print in their paperwork. A woman asks a broker questions about maintenance and inactivity fees. Each time the Broker gives the woman the answers she’d like to hear, another man comes from behind the desk and gives an exception to the broker’s answer while the broker sits with a pleasant smile on his face. “Who is that?” the woman asks, to which the broker replys, “oh that’s asterisk, don’t mind him.” A voiceover says, “Get serious. Get BrownCo.”
Agency: McCann Erickson Art Director, Keith Evans; Creative Director, Bill Oberlander; Producer, Toni Lipari; Copywriter, Jeff Taylor Production Company: Hungry Man, Inc Director, David Shane; Executive Producer, Steve Orent, Tom Rossano; DP, Tom Kruger; Prodcuer, Lalou Dammond Editorial: Crew Cuts Editor, Karen Kourtessis; Assistant Editor, Catherine Gionfriddo, O�hara Tudor; Executive Producer, Nancy Shames; Producer, Rosie DiMarzo Postproduction: Nice Shoes Colorist, Lez Rudge; Online Editor, Eric Gelgand Visual Effects: Fluid Artist Alex Fronwein; Producer, Virginia Galvan Audio: Sound Lounge Engineer, Philip Loeb; Mixer, Philip Loeb
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 “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