A fake Saturday night casting call for the most attractive men in Mendoza, Argentina, took them out of circulation so that regular guys could be the center of female attention at local clubs. That was the premise behind a stunt spot for Andes Beer out of agency Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi in Buenos Aires.
Diego Núñez Irigoyen of production company Agosto directed the spot which lets us in on the prank designed to create “The Fairest Night of All” for average Joes. Several of the hunky guys, though, did indeed end up in the final commercial so their aspirations to be cast in a high-profile piece were actually realized–and so too evidently were the aspirations of guys who benefited from eliminating some of their stiffest competition in the romance department.
Credits
Client AB-inbev/Andes Beer Agency Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi Buenos Aires Ariel Serkin, Juan Pablo Lufrano, Rafael Santmarina, executive creative directors; Matias Eusebi, Ammiel Fazzari, creative directors; Tobias Tercic, copywriter; Hernan Garcia Dietrich, art director; Mariano Espagnol, head of art; Fernando Lanuza, sr. art director; Adrian Aspani, chief producer. The Lovemarks Company Julia Calabria, Juan Manuel Cuervo, producers. Production Agosto Diego Núñez Irigoyen, director; Luli Kramer, exec producer; Chula D’amico, producer. Martin Bendersky, DP; Soledad Belda, chief producer. Postproduction Che Revolution Post Andres Boero, editor; Eric Bonzon, postproduction coordinator; Alejandro Armaleo, colorist.
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
