Bad Download Speed Makes for a Terrifying Ghost Story in Halloween Spot From FIOS
Gaten Matarazzo From 'Stranger Things' Appears in Another Ad for the Verizon Cable Brand
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What's scarier for modern kids than ghosts, ghouls and zombies? According to this spot from FIOS (and we suspect they could be right), it's slow internet speeds.
The brand's Halloween ad once again stars actor Gaten Matarazzo from "Stranger Things," who appeared in a previous spot as a tech-savvy kid. He and his friends are out in the backyard doing "streaming and 'smores" and using multiple devices with their FIOS internet. Their neighbor appears over the fence to tell them a spooky campfire story about how, once upon a time, "if you had more than a couple of devices online, speeds would slow to a crawl ... like a zombie." Even worse, "the devices would feed ... on every last bit of bandwidth, until there was none left."
"He's just trying to scare us," mutters Matarazzo, but the kids look suitably terrified.
The ad is by McCann New York and was directed by Henry-Alex Rubin at Smuggler.
Credits
- Date
- Oct 27, 2017
- Brand :
- Verizon
- Client :
- Verizon
- Executive Vice President :
- Diego Scotti
- Chief Marketing Officer :
- Diego Scotti
- Vice President, Creative VCM and New Product :
- Kristin Rooney
- Director, Marketing, Communications and Brand :
- Sandra Ciconte
- Marketing Manager :
- Sharon Warren
- Marketing Manager :
- Michael Shapiro
- Broadcast Production :
- Valerie Light
- Co-Chief Creative Officer :
- Thomas Murphy
- Co-Chief Creative Officer :
- Sean Bryan
- Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director :
- Dan Donovan
- Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director :
- Mat Bisher
- Senior Vice President/Group Creative Director :
- Sherrod Melvin
- Senior Vice President/Group Creative Director :
- Jeremy Pippenger
- Creative Director :
- Jason Marsen
- Creative Director :
- Alexei Beltrone
- Associate Creative Director :
- Nic Wehmeyer
- Associate Creative Director :
- Josh Kessler
- Art Director :
- Mark Forsman
- Copywriter :
- Vinny Garbellano
- Executive Vice President, Executive Account Director :
- Dominic Whittles
- Senior Vice President, Group Account Director :
- Jason Kolinsky
- Vice President, Account Director :
- Hugo Takacs
- Account Director :
- Alba Berdala
- Account Supervisor :
- William Powers
- Assistant Account Executive :
- Gert Stepan
- Account Executive :
- Shirley Mok
- Business Manager :
- Hovannes Moussati
- Integrated Producer :
- Eva Pipa
- Integrated Producer :
- Lauren Bauder
- Senior Vice President, Director Verizon Broadcast Production :
- Michele Ferone
- Head of Production :
- Nathy Aviram
- Group Director, Strategy :
- Dan Cohn
- Director, Strategy :
- Anthony Perez
- Production :
- Smuggler
- Director :
- Henry-Alex Rubin
- Executive Producer :
- Drew Santarsiero
- Producer :
- Leah Allina
- Talent :
- DDCD & Partners
- Talent :
- Susan Cole
- Talent :
- Hannah Kwon
- Talent :
- Haley Barber
- Talent :
- Elba Espinal
- Editorial :
- No6
- Editor :
- Jason MacDonald
- Editor :
- Ryan Bukowski
- Producer :
- Malia Rose
- Senior Producer :
- Laura Molinaro
- Executive Producer :
- Corina Dennison
- Audio Producer :
- Sonic Union
- Mix :
- Paul Weiss
- Music :
- JSM Music
- Chief Creative Officer :
- Joel Simon
- Composer :
- Joel Simon
- Composer :
- Brian Englishman
- Composer :
- Nathan Kil
- Executive Producer :
- Jeff Fiorello
- Producer :
- Norm Felker
- Visual Effects :
- Charlex
- Producer :
- Ben Famiglietti
- Executive Producer :
- Alex Jarmen
- Agency :
- McCann-New York
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