Four Seasons Total Landscaping gets a hi-tech revamp in Fiverr's Super Bowl spot
The ad by Publicis wasn't filmed in Philadelphia but in a studio in Mexico City
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Fiverr, the freelance resources provider, played on the moment of fame experienced by Philadelphia's Four Seasons Total Landscaping in its Super Bowl spot.
The female-owned business rose to prominence following the election, when Rudy Giuliani held a press conference there for the Trump campaign, rather than at Philadelphia's Four Seasons hotel. In the Super Bowl ad, created via Publicis New York, features Four Seasons Total Landscaping owner and president Marie Siravo enters the now-famous door and inside, it's revealed there's a "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" -like world of high-tech horticulture, with jet pack hedge trimming and more. The ad was directed by Nick Ball via MJZ.
The aim of the spot is to imagine what a landscaping company would do with its newly found fame, income and resources thanks to Fiverr. "Fiverr has the freelancers to get you where you want to be," says Siravo, as she surveys her empire to the strains of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." (For more on Fiverr's strategy, Ad Age's Jeanine Poggi spoke to Duncan Bird, the company's VP of brand marketing and digital, in an Ad Age Remotely interview last week.)
According to Publicis New York Chief Creative Officer Andy Bird, the Four Seasons idea was one of several the agency came up with while pitching for Fiverr's Super Bowl spot last year. " They have a bold and entrepreneurial mind set at Fiverr, and they saw the scale and fit and the fact that the Four Seasons story is a real American success story, they went for it."
The reaction of Four Seasons, when asked to take part, was "kind of gob-smacked," says Bird. "They said yes pretty much straight away, Marie the owner is fantastic and a lot of fun, hopefully you’ll see that out of the spot. They loved every minute of it." The production involved recreating Four Seasons Total Landscaping from scratch in a studio in Mexico City, rather than filming at the actual Philadelphia location.
Asked how he thought the Super Bowl audience would react to the spot, Bird commented: "Hopefully with the same spirit that the Four Seasons fiasco played out in November, hilarity with a healthy dose of ‘what the ----?"
Credits
- Date
- Feb 08, 2021
- Client :
- Fiverr
- Agency :
- Publicis-New York
- Chief Creative Officer :
- Andy Bird
- Global Chief Strategy Officer :
- Mick McCabe
- EVP Executive Creative Director :
- Matt McKay
- SVP Executive Creative Director :
- Josh Horn
- Associate Creative Director Art Director :
- Shaun Bruce
- Creative Director Copywriter :
- Zac Sax
- Creative Director :
- Kristen Koop
- Art Director :
- Camilla Ciappina
- Junior Copywriter :
- Jane Raymond
- VP Account Director :
- Anna Pogosova
- EVP Head of Integrated Production :
- Jenny Read
- VP Executive Producer :
- Lauren Schneidmuller
- SVP Strategy Director :
- Ben Zumsteg
- Senior Director Social Content & Engagement Strategy :
- Matt Heindl
- Senior Marketing & Consumer Strategy Director :
- Ivette Alonso
- SVP Group Director Program Management :
- Paul Daligan
- Senior Program Manager :
- Chelsea Brill
- SVP Director Business Affairs :
- Robin Oksenhendler
- Associate Director Business Affairs :
- Janet Regan
- Production Company :
- MJZ
- Director :
- Nick Ball
- President/Co-Founder :
- David Zander
- Executive Producer :
- Emma Wilcockson
- Producer :
- Karen Chen
- Production Manager :
- Beth Schiffman
- Production Designer :
- Andrew Reznik
- Director of Photography :
- Lol Crawley
- Local Service Production Company :
- The Lift Managing
- Director :
- Avelino Rodriguez
- Partner :
- Jose Barrera
- Producer :
- Magali Sagarra
- Editorial Company :
- MackCut
- Editor :
- Ian Mackenzie
- Assistant Editor :
- Cooper McLane
- Executive Producer :
- Gina Pagano
- VFX/Post Production Company :
- Parliament
- Color Company :
- MPC
- Colorist :
- Ricky Gausis
- Audio Record & Mix :
- Super Exploder
- Audio Mixer & Sound Designer :
- Jody Nazzaro
- Music/Composer :
- Jonathan Dreyfus
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