A wand-wielding Tinkerball-like fairy flies through a modern day city. A flick of her wand turns an office building into a gingerbread house, and a commuter train into a toy choo-choo. However her wand is to no avail when she tries to alter a hard-charging Dodge Caliber. In fact, her last pixie dust shot at the car boomerangs back at her, knocking the magical being to the ground. A young tough guy laughs at her plight, at which point she proves she still has the magical touch, transforming him into a preppie type and his macho dog into four small fluffy canines. A voiceover informs us that the Caliber is “anything but cute.”
Agency: BBDO North America, Atmosphere BBDO David Lubars, Bill Bruce, chief creative officers; Dan Councilor, associate creative director/art director; Matt Sicko, associate creative director/copywriter; Hyatt Choate, executive producer; Tara Leinwohl, assistant producer; Loren Parkins, executive music producer Production Company: Smuggler Brian Beletic, director; Ben Serensin, DP. Editorial: Nomad Editorial Company Tom Muldoon, editor; Pete D๏ฟฝAndrea, assistant editor Music: Emoto Tony Morales, John Adair, composers; Paul Schultz, executive producer. Sound Design: Nomad Editorial Company Francois Blaignan, sound designer Audio: Sound Lounge Tom Jucarone, 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 โNot Just the Factsโ 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. FactSetโs 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 spotsโa combination of :30s, :15s, :06s and nine โshortsโโacross multiple channels including digital, streaming and CTV.
This :30, โDinos,โ has an office workerโs relevant reference to dinosaurs spark our boorish colleague who proceeds to utter one irrelevant fact after another about the prehistoric creatures.
The Los Angelesโbased 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