An adaptation of Mastercard’s “priceless” advertisements to suit Dr. Seuss’ fancy�”Cat in the Hat” lists arbitrary rhyming items as possible gifts during the holiday season. The Cat in the Hat spends $300 on presents, but the “perfect present for one and all, for ones who are big and ones who are small,” is indeed, priceless. The advertisement tries to draw traffic to The Cat in the Hat movie and a Mastercard contest where people can win a trip to Universal Orlando just by using their Mastercard.
Agency: McCann Erickson Joyce King Thomas, executive VP/executive creative director; Lisa Brandriff, VP/senior copywriter; Kathy Kuhn, senior art director; Kathy Love, VP/executive producer; Mike Boris, music producer. Production Company: Partizan Jaume, director; Flavio Labiano, DP; Sheila Stepanek, VP/executive producer; Steve Dickstein, president/partner; Simon Barrett, line producer. Shot at Universal Studios, Hollywood. Editorial: MacKenzie Cutler Jun Diaz, editor; Staley Dietrich and Brent McCready, assistant editors; Julie Gagliardi, producer. Postproduction: The Mill New York,Company 3 New York Dirk Greene, Flame artist; Verity Grantham, producer.,Tim Masick, colorist; Luana Ayres, producer. Visual Effects: Universal Pictures,Rhythm + Hues Commercial Studios Kurt Williams, overall visual effects producer.,Doug Smith, visual effects supervisor; Erica Burton, visual effects producer; Craig Talmy, animation director; Chris Sjoholm, digital supervisor; Pascal Chappuis, lightin
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