Old Spice promises hair as thick-looking as fondue in '70s throwback ads
Funny spots promote products to build up your mane like it was yesterday—but today
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Old Spice directs our attention to hair—long, thick and flowy manes straight out of the ‘70s—in a new series of ads from Wieden & Kennedy Portland.
Three spots promote the brand’s new men’s hair thickening system by taking viewers back to the age when leonine ‘dos and fondue were all the rage. In fact, the new ads deftly combined both of those popular trends from the days of disco to make its point.
A spokesman with lustrous, wavy tresses to rival a young Leif Garrett or John Travolta pulls the new products out of a vat of the cheesy stuff or digs them out of his luscious locks, which also double as a safety net for a cocktail that drops out of the sky. “In just two weeks you can have the thick looking hair of yesterday, but today,” he says.
The spots were directed by Edwin McGill out of Hey Presto!
Credits
- Date
- Feb 20, 2020
- Client :
- Old Spice
- Agency :
- Wieden & Kennedy-Portland
- Executive Creative Director :
- Jason Bagley
- Executive Creative Director :
- Eric Baldwin
- Creative Director :
- Erik Fahrenkopf
- Creative Director :
- Max Stinson
- Copywriter / Art Director :
- Sarah Menacho
- Copywriter / Art Director :
- Karen Zack
- Producer :
- Kacey Klonsky
- Producer :
- Austin Shore
- Account Team Member :
- Guy Campbell
- Account Team Member :
- Paige Brown
- Account Team Member :
- Thomas Harvey
- Creative Operations Manager :
- Jody Hart
- Media Team :
- Alex Hering
- Media Team :
- Kate Hagenston
- Media Team :
- Kelly Muller
- Brand Strategy Director :
- Drew Philips
- Business Affairs :
- Nestor Gandia
- Business Affairs :
- Matt Hughes
- Traffic :
- Zac Rosevear
- Design Ops Manager/Design Producer :
- Scott Meisse
- Studio Designer :
- Curtis Pachunka
- Motion Designer :
- Adam Sirkin
- Production Company :
- Hey Presto!
- Director :
- Edwin McGill
- Director of Photography :
- Charlie Sarroff
- Executive Producer :
- Emily O’Meara
- Executive Producer :
- Tim Bathurst
- Line Producer :
- Emily O’Meara
- Production Design/ Art Direction :
- Pele Kudren
- Wardrobe Stylist :
- Callan Stokes
- Hair :
- Katy McClintock
- Makeup :
- Shelley Willis
- Editorial :
- Hey Presto!
- Editor :
- Tim Bathurst
- VFX :
- Arc Edit
- VFX Artist :
- Eugene Richards
- VFX Producer :
- Freya Maddock
- Colorist :
- Paul Byrne
- Artist :
- Pavlo Butorin
- Song :
- “Seaside” Shutterstock
- Sound Designer :
- Tom Paolantonio
- Audio Mixer :
- Tom Paolantonio
- Photographer :
- Robbie Augsperger
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