Actress/comedian Melissa McCarthy settled into the director’s chair for this Walmart “Magic Box” spot which debuted during the Oscars telecast (3/4).
The commercial shows the negative effects of childhood bullying on one’s potential with “The Box” providing the opportunity to break away from past hurdles and reach for the stars in pursuit of our dreams.
Pony Show Entertainment produced the spot for Saatchi & Saatchi NY, with Heidi Black of Whitehouse Post editing, and Ben Freer of Eleven handling the audio post mix.
Credits
Client Walmart Agency Saatchi & Saatchi NY Dean Shoukas, executive producer; Jenny Read, director of integrated production; Wayne Best, Michele Kunken, executive creative directors. Production Pony Show Entertainment Melissa McCarthy, director; Susan Kirson, Jeffrey Frankel, partners; Helga Gruber, exec producer; Gareth Wood, head of production; Kelli Abraham, producer; Mandy Walker, DP; Ruth De Jong, production designer. Editorial Whitehouse Post Heidi Black, editor; Joni (Wright) Williamson, exec producer; Annie Maldonado, post producer. VFX/Finishing Carbon John Price, creative director; Matthew McManus, exec producer; Rob Churchill, VFX supervisor. Music/Sound Design SOUTH Music & Sound Design Ailbhe Fitzpatrick, music producer. Track: “Bird Set Free”; Sia, writer; Theodore Shapiro, arranger; Greg Wells, music mix. Audio Post Eleven Ben Freer, mixer; Andrew Smith, assistant mixer; Melissa Elston, exec producer; Maddee Bonniot, producer.
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
