Cablevision’s “Basics” is an instructional video on how to use the telephone. Tom Smith, a man with the voice of a game show host, walks viewers through the basics of connecting and dialing on your telephone, “or simply, phone.” Tom Smith instructs phone novices how to call long distance, slipping in the fact that it is the same price as local calls with Optimum Voice. After revealing the advantages of using Optimum Voice, Tom Smith’s spotlight is turned out and he bids viewers “good calling.”
Agency: Amalgamated, New York Agency Producer, Erika Best; Creative Director/Writer, Peter Ignazi; Creative Director/ Art Director, Carlos Moreno Production Company: Smuggler Director, Brian Beletic; DP, Joaquin Baca-Asay; Editor, Maury Loeb/PS260 Audio: New Math Mixer, Keith Reynaud
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