Martin Krejci of Stink Productions directed this U.S. Postal Service spot in which a young girl sees a hippopotamus and is immediately smitten. Her parents pick up on that and rely on the postal service to deliver hippo-themed surprises ordered online to delight their daughter–until she becomes infatuated by another member of the animal kingdom.
The spot is part of a campaign from McCann New York which underscores that the USPS delivers more e-commerce packages during the holidays than anyone else–roughly 16 billion cards, letters and packages.
Credits
Client United States Postal Service Agency McCann New York Eric Silver, North American chief creative officer; Tom Murphy, Sean Bryan, NY chief creative officers; Patrick Clarke, executive creative director; Lizzie Wilson, sr. art director; Tali Gumbiner, sr. copywriter; Tori Nygren, copywriter; Nathy Aviram, chief production officer; Donna McCracken, sr. producer. Production Stink Productions Martin Krejci, director. Editorial Big Sky Chris Franklin, editor. Visual Effects Big Sky VFX Ryan Sears, lead artist. Post Company 3 Tim Masick, colorist. Music “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas” by Gayla Peevey Audio Post Sonic Union Steve Rosen, engineer.
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
