In “Who Am I?”�one of seven spots in a campaign–a garishly dressed man, replete with loud shirt and a giant medallion hanging from an ostentatious gold chain, walks into a La-Z-Boy furniture gallery. He is holding a silver motorcycle helmet. A female employee greets the prospective customer who is bewildered and confesses, “I don’t know who I am anymore.” She counters by inviting him to “try being yourself over here.” The “over here” is a large red Laz-Z-Boy sofa. His disoriented state disappears once he sits down. He lets out a satisfied sigh, and says “hello old friend” to the couch. He then extends a slightly different greeting to the La-Z-Boy employee as if he’s just noticed her for the first time. “Well, hello new friend,” he says in a bit of a cheesy tone and a flirtatious manner. The tagline: “Comfort, it’s what we do.”
Agency: Rubin Postaer & Associates Joe Baratelli, David Smith, creative directors; Nathan Crow, art director; Eric Helin, copywriter; Shelley Eisner, producer. Production Company: Tool of North America Erich Joiner, director; Jennifer Siegel, Brian Latt, executive producers; Mark Fetterman, producer; Mark Plummer, DP Editorial: Spot Welders Inc. Pam Martin, Lucas Spaulding, editors Music: Elias Arts Jonathan Elias, composer
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