In the Australian out back an outdoorsman dressed in khaki is lecturing on snakes. The camera then pans to a plush toy snake laying on a dusty rock. As the man explained the danger this snake poses him, he grabs the snake with a long hooked pole and pulls it down. He carefully grabs the snake on the back of his head despite the fact that he has “no anti-venom for this chap.” “Real animals are better. Toronto Zoo.”
Agency: Lowe Roche Geoffrey Roche, chief creative officer; Christina Yu, creative director; Patrick Shing, art director; Ryan Spelliscy, copywriter; Melanie Lambertsen, producer. Production Company: Untitled, Toronto Tim Godsall, director; James Davis, executive producer; Martha Davis, producer. Darko Suvak, DP Editorial: School Editing Brian Wells, editor; Sarah Brooks, executive producer Postproduction: Notch Chuck Nosworthy, colorist Audio: Wanted! Post-Production Mike Rowland, 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