A zealous coach is one thing�but it’s quite another when the sport he’s zealous about is musical chairs. This high school coach is intense, overseeing grueling musical chairs training for his student athletes, often berating them while educating them on the finer points of the game�like cleaning out ear wax so they can make sure to hear when the music stops so they can claim their seats. The high school adopted the sport upon seeing it as one of the between-innings activities at Stockton Ports’ minor league baseball games.
Agency: Gumas Advertising Walt Whitman, creative director/copywriter; Kevin Bonner, art director/writer. Production Company: Mr. Big Film, Inc Tim Bieber, director/DP; Lisa DeLeo, producer. Editorial: Mad River Post | Santa Monica Victor Brown, editor Postproduction: Zoic Studios Steve Meyer, colorist Audio: Mad River Post | Santa Monica Victor Brown, audio post 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 “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