A man takes his dog for a walk. He is in a defensive, borderline hostile mood until he encounters another guy walking his dog. While they have racial and generational differences–and on the surface seemingly very little in common–the men bond thanks to their dogs.

Directed by Lance Acord of Park Pictures, “The Walk” is part of Pedigree dog food’s ongoing global marketing campaign called “Feed the Good. The campaign is based on the simple insight that dogs bring out the good in people and Pedigree brings out the good in dogs.

BBDO New York served as agency on “The Walk.”

This 45-second spot will run primarily on YouTube in addition to Pedigree’s social channels into June.

Credits

Client Mars/Pedigree Agency BBDO New York David Lubars, chief creative officer, worldwide; Greg Ketchum, Tom Godici, executive creative directors; Greg Gerstner, Andy Blood, creative directors; Banks Noel, associate creative director; Scott Kelly, art director; Ben Polkinghorne, copywriter; David Rolfe, director of integrated production; Sofia Doktori, sr. content producer; Rani Vaz, head of music production; Crystal Rix, group planning director; Kirsten Flanik, managing director. Production Park Pictures Lance Acord, director; Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Dinah Rodriguez, exec producers; Anne Bobroff, head of production; Caroline Kousidonis, exec producer/producer. Editorial Whitehouse Post Russell Icke, editor; James Donahue, assistant editor; Lauren Hertzberg, exec producer; Alejandra Alarcon, producer. Postproduction CarbonVFX Ben Gibbs, colorist; Matt Reilly, lead Flame; Joe Scaglione, Flame assistant; Frank Devlin, exec producer; Bree Bracket, producer. Music Barking Owl. Audio Post Sound Lounge Tom Jucarone, mixer/sound designer.

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