This odd couple scenario pairs Stan, a nice regular guy, with his roommate from hell, cable repairman Otto. The latter is inconsiderate and unreliable at every turn; in this spot, the phone rings, Otto picks it up, says “Hold Please,” and then reclines back on the couch. Bewildered by his roomie’s behavior, Stan then grabs the phone to find out who’s calling�turns out it’s his mom. The tagline: “Nobody should have to live with cable.”
Agency: BBDO West Jim Lesser, executive creative director; James Brown, copywriter; Jason Roberts, art director; Tito Melega, associate creative director; Lyra Rider, producer. Production Company: harvest Michael Downing, director; Anthony Wolberg, DP; Bonnie Goldfarb and Scott Howard, executive producers; Francie Moore, producer. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Editorial: hutchco technologies Jim Hutchins, editor; Steve Miller, assistant editor; Jane Hutchins, producer. Postproduction: Bobine Video Inc. Jais Lamaire, colorist; Julie Airali, producer Sound Design: Stimmung Gus Koven, sound designer; Kelly Fuller, executive producer. Audio: Eleven Jeff Payne, mixer.
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