A young man driving a car hits a bump in the road. He stops the car and looks back to see he’s run over a porcupine. He then takes off his New Balance shoes, rubs the soles together and places them on the animal, reviving it with an energy charge, akin to cardio pulmonary resuscitation. Indeed, New Balance’s new ZIP shoes have positive energy.
Agency: Almighty, Boston Chris Smith, Joe Polevy, creative directors; Chad Portas, associate creative director/art director; Andrew Jasperson, writer; Matthew Charde, executive producer; Liz Shook, producer. Production Company: Biscuit Filmworks Russ Lamoureux, director; Shawn Lacy, Eric Stern, executive producers; Lisa Stockdale, producer; Joost Van Starrenburg, DP. Editorial: engine room Matt Rogers, editor. Postproduction: Nice Shoes Gene Curley, colorist. Audio: Soundtrack Recording Group Howard Cole, audio engineer/sound designer. Animation: Shilo Jose Gomez, Andre Stringer, creative dirctors; Evan Dennis, lead designer/animator/compositor; Tracy Chandler, executive producer; Jeremy Yaches, prdoucer; Dave Hill, animator/compositor.
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