CP+B in Boulder, Colo., created this “Coaches vs. Cancer: Hardwood Heroes” campaign tied into the NCAA basketball championship March Madness for automotive client Infiniti. Centerpiece of the campaign is an eight-part mini-documentary focusing on two basketball teams consisting of cancer survivors who will play a live game during Final Four weekend. The game will be broadcast on CBS during the NCAA semifinals.
Guiding the teams are two former NCAA basketball coaches, Tom Pender and Jim Harrick.
Here is the intro video to the campaign directed by Richard Bullock of Hungry Man.
More than 70 million March Madness brackets are filled out every year in hopes of taking home a big payday. But this year, Infiniti created a bracket that actually gives back. For each round of the NCAA tournament, every winning pick selected at www.cbssports.com/infiniti generates a donation for the Coaches vs. Cancer charity.
Credits
Client Infiniti Motor Company Ltd. Agency CP+B, Boulder, Colo. Ralph Watson, VP/chief creative officer; Michael Raso, VP/executive creative director; Shannon Gibney, associate creative director/art director; Ryan Contillo, sr. copywriter; Kate Hildebrant, VP/director of video production; Aymi Beltramo, VP/executive integrated producer; Jackie Maloney, integrated producer; Chelsea Lines, content manager; John Frazier, John Heathfield, director of product strategy. Production Hungry Man Richard Bullock, director; Leora Backer Mohr, 1st assistant director; Kevin Byrne, Dan Duffy, Mino Jarjoura, Nancy Hacohen, exec producers; Josh Rothfield, producer; Alex Biotopoulos, production supervisor; Shane Kelly, DP. Editorial Plus Productions, Boulder, Colo. Nick Lofting, editor; Nick Rodriguez, assistant editor; Lennon Barnica, sr. producer. Postproduction Company 3 Stefan Sonnenfeld, sr. colorist; Rhubie Jovanov, telecine executive producer. Visual Effects Method Studios, Santa Monica, Calif. Kelly Bumbarger, lead compositor; Robert Owens, VFX exec producer; Paula Jimenez, VFX producer. Music JSM Music, NY Joel Simon, chief creative officer. Track: Uplifting Sparse Audio Post Lime Studios, Santa Monica Rohan Young, mixer; Susie Boyajan, exec producer; Ben Tomastik, mix engineer assistant.
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
