If you don't want to get up and start dancing after watching this infectiously fun Bacardi ad, you might be dead
'If it's a floor, it's a dance floor,' says new campaign out of BBDO New York
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Bacardi's latest ad contains an important public service announcement in the form of a tagline: "If it's a floor, it's a dance floor." Though we can think of some floors that should be exceptions (e.g., the floor of a small rowboat, the floor of the apartment above you), generally speaking the point is very well taken. And Bacardi drives it home in this infectiously fun 60-second romp of an ad out of BBDO New York that shows everything from streets and sidewalks to the floors of a barbershop and a laundromat being turned into dance floors by exuberant impromptu dancers strutting their stuff to music by Major Lazer. (There's also a 30-second cut that started airing on national TV on Monday.)
Directed by Tom Kuntz and choreographed by Rich&Tone, the ad focuses entirely on the feet and legs of its anonymous stars (who are actually pro dancers from Los Angeles, Miami, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Mexico). "We deliberately chose not to show any faces because faces are usually what marketers use to convey emotion," Bacardi's Director of Creative Excellence Laila Mignoni said in a statement. "By focusing on the physical and emotional movement evoked from the waist down, we think viewers will feel even more inspired to move." (And, of course, inspired to drink.)
Credits
- Date
- May 15, 2018
- Brand :
- Bacardi
- Chief Marketing Officer :
- John Burke
- Vice President, Brand Managing Director :
- Ned Duggan
- Creative Director :
- Laila Mignoni
- Global Rums Director :
- Roberto Laverde
- Chairman and Chief Creative Officer :
- David Lubars
- Chief Creative Officer :
- Greg Hahn
- Executive Creative Director :
- Marcos Kotlhar
- Executive Creative Director :
- Danilo Boer
- Creative Director :
- Taylor Marsh
- Creative Director :
- Joao Unzer
- Creative Director :
- Marcus Johnston
- Creative Director :
- Jim Connolly
- Senior Project Manager :
- Noreen Masih
- Head of Integrated Production :
- David Rolfe
- Executive Producer :
- Sofia Handler
- Group Executive Producer :
- Diane Hill
- Production Services Director :
- Jessica Nugent
- Senior Business Affairs Manager :
- Heather Weissman
- Associate Business Affairs Manager :
- Reid Pierce
- Music Producer :
- Julia Millison
- Senior Account Director :
- Steven Panariello
- Account Director :
- Josh Goodman
- Account Manager :
- Meghan Wood
- Account Executive :
- Rachel Passman
- Group Planning Director :
- Chris Cummings
- Communications Planning Director :
- Patrick Tomasiewicz
- Production Company :
- MJZ
- Director :
- Tom Kuntz
- President :
- David Zander
- Senior Executive Producer :
- Eriks Krumins
- Producer :
- Suza Horvat
- Production Designer :
- Jahmin Assa
- Director, Photography :
- Hoyte van Hoytema
- Choreographer :
- Rich Talauega
- Choreographer :
- Tone Talauega
- Editorial :
- The Whitehouse Post
- Editor :
- Russell Icke
- Assistant Editor :
- Matt Hartman
- Executive Producer :
- Caitlin Grady
- Producer :
- Pamela Heller
- Music Arrangement :
- John Kirby
- Sound House :
- Sonic Union
- Sound Mixer :
- Steven Rosen
- Post Visual Effects :
- Blacksmith VFX
- Lead Artist, 2D Compositor :
- Daniel Morris
- 2D Compositing :
- Jacob Slutsky
- 3D Tracking :
- QL Beans
- Filaments Visual Effects :
- Rotoscoping
- Producer :
- Alexa Mauro
- Executive Producer :
- Charlotte Arnold
- Color :
- CO3
- Colorist :
- Stefan Sonnenfeld
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