Terrible Marketing Defeats a Suave Secret Agent in Adobe's Advertising Week Spot
Latest Cautionary Tale Warns of Lack of Connection Between Channels
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Adobe's ongoing campaign centered on marketing fails shows no sign of running out of steam, with the brand launching a new spot today for Advertising Week in New York.
The latest spot features a suave secret agent (is it a coincidence or does he look a little like Tom Hiddleston?) who's trying to check into a hotel having executed a dangerous mission. True to the genre, the glamorous receptionist responds to his smoothness and flirts with him at first -- but then falters as she fails to find his reservation on the system. There follows the kind of scenario we're probably all familiar with.
"But you texted a confirmation to my watch," he complains, to which she replies "Oh, marketing handles emails," and when he says he booked a room on the app, she responds, "Oh we have so many apps." As both start to lose their cool, the bad guys turn up looking for our agent and he's taken away, still shouting about his name. The spot ends with Adobe's Marketing Cloud logo and the tagline: "How's your customer experience?"
"When cross-channel marketing goes wrong, it's bad news for businesses and consumers alike. We wanted to show that all the bad guys in the world couldn't defeat a secret agent, but a bad customer experience could," said Will Elliott, creative director at agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners, in a statement.
Steve Rogers at Biscuit Filmworks / Revolver directed the spot, which will be shown ahead of several Advertising Week live sessions as part of the media plan. Adobe is also planning targeted advertising to reach marketers searching for movie content on YouTube, in line with the ad's cinematic tone.
Credits
- Date
- Sep 26, 2016
- Agency :
- Goodby Silverstein & Partners
- Brand :
- Adobe
- Client :
- Adobe
- Co-Chairperson :
- Rich Silverstein
- Co-Chairperson :
- Jeff Goodby
- Chief Creative Officer :
- Margaret Johnson
- Creative Director :
- Will Elliott
- Creative Director :
- Patrick Knowlton
- Associate Creative Director :
- Andrew Livingston
- Associate Creative Director :
- Simon Bruyn
- Production Director :
- Tod Puckett
- Senior Producer :
- Benton Roman
- Managing Partner :
- Brian McPherson
- Account Director :
- Theo Abel
- Account Manager :
- Chelsea Bruzzone
- Assistant Account Manager :
- Zack Piánko
- Director, Brand Strategy :
- Bonnie Wan
- Brand Strategist :
- Etienne Ma
- Brand Strategist :
- Andrew Mak
- Communications Strategy Director :
- Christine Chen
- Communications Strategy Deputy Director :
- Dong Kim
- Senior Communications Strategist :
- Victoria Barbatelli
- Communications Strategist :
- Tara Hughes
- Junior Communications Strategist :
- Nicole Bruno
- Junior Communications Strategist :
- Catherine Kim
- Business Affairs Manager :
- Heidi Killeen
- Production Company :
- Biscuit Filmworks/Revolver Film
- Director :
- Stephen Rogers
- Managing Director :
- Shawn Lacy
- Executive Producer :
- Holly Vega
- Producer :
- Kathy Rhodes
- Head of Production :
- Mercedes Allen Sarria
- Head of Production :
- Rachel Glaub
- Director, Photography :
- Nicolas Karakatsanis
- Production Designer :
- Tunde Csaki
- Editorial Company :
- Arcade Edit
- Managing Partner :
- Damian Stevens
- Executive Producer :
- Crissy DeSimone
- Head of Production :
- Kirsten Thon-Webb
- Editor :
- Geoff Hounsell
- Assistant Editor :
- Laura Sanford
- Producer :
- Alexa Atkin
- Telecine Company :
- The Mill
- Colorist :
- Fergus McCall
- Senior Color Producer :
- Natalie Westerfield
- Executive Producer/Visual Effects :
- Leighton Greer
- Senior Visual Effects Producer :
- Will Unterreiner
- Production Coordinator :
- Alex Benavente
- Shoot Supervisor :
- Chris Mortimer
- Creative Director :
- Tim Davies
- 2D Lead Artist :
- Tim Davies
- 2D Artist :
- Edward Black
- 2D Artist :
- Kelsey Napier
- Music Company :
- Woodwork Music
- Sound Design Company :
- Barking Owl
- Sound Designer :
- Michael Anastasi
- Sound Creative Director :
- Kelly Bayett
- Producer :
- Ashley Benton
- Mix Company :
- Barking Owl
- Mixer :
- Morgan Johnson
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