A Willy Wonka-like character takes kids for a tour of his magical candy factory in this stop-motion animation spot. But it turns out the manufacturing plant instead makes candy-flavored cigarettes. A young girl isn’t taken in by the charade. She urges her classmates to “not get tricked into trying” these tobacco products.
Agency: Maris, West & Baker Marc Leffler, creative director/writer; Chris Nolen, art director Production Company: ka-chew! Seamus Walsh, Mark Caballero, directors/character designers; John Andrews, executive producer; Kristina Schoentag, Chris Finnegan, producers; Joe Schmidt, DP/art director; Chris Finnegan, character designer; Josh Jennings, Ethan Marak, Sihanouk Mariona, Sarah Meyer, animators; Cameron Baity, Clint Zoccolli, puppet fabricators; Kelly Mazurowski, set builder; Michael Landon, effects artist; Jeremy Costello, storyboard artist Audio: ka-chew! Peter Carlstadt, audio post mixer
Brady Corbet Makes Commercial Directing Debut With Bloomberg Media Campaign Out Of W+K NY
“The Contextualist,” the latest chapter in Bloomberg Media’s “Context Changes Everything” brand platform, debuts today (3/6), creatively distinguishing Bloomberg.com & the Bloomberg app subscription’s value for global business and government leaders. The new concept builds on the campaign’s foundation of context--the power of Bloomberg’s journalism to draw deft connections between its wealth of news, insights and data in every corner of the world.
Golden Globe and BAFTA-award winning filmmaker Brady Corbet (The Brutalist) directed three new spots for the campaign via magna studios in his debut helming brand commercials. This spot titled “The Price of Tea in China” takes a well-known and seemingly simple idiom and unpacks its complexity as an international business story in a 30-second journey. (The other two commercials are “Bird in the Hand” and “Rising Tides.” The “Context” campaign continues to be developed in collaboration agency Wieden+Kennedy New York.
“‘Context Changes Everything’ has become an important rallying point with consumers to remind them what’s unique about Bloomberg as we continue to double down on global news coverage for them,” said Julia Beizer, COO, Bloomberg Media. “‘The Contextualist’ moves the brand forward by personifying the prevailing ideas of intellect, curiosity and ambition. We’ve gained more than 100,000 subscribers in the time since we first launched the campaign in September 2023, and it remains an important driving element of our investment to continue growing and engaging subscribers in the years to come.”
“As my directorial debut in the world of advertisement, I’m proud of this work for Bloomberg and how it addresses the importance of... Read More