Well, not quite. But the latest brand campaign from Mississauga, Ont.-based Samsung Canada does a great job of bringing the cellies to life. And, since phones seem to be replacing dogs as man’s best friend, the super-pal treatment rings true.
A 30-second TV spot features robot-like creatures made entirely of Samsung mobile phones doing everything from rocking out to giving a thumbs-up. Eight different print and OOH executions also depict hand gestures being made by the cell ‘bots.
‘We wanted to marry technology and humanity,’ says Noreen McDermott-Santilli, ACD at Mississauga-based Cheil Worldwide, Canada. ‘We wanted to make the phones the hero.’
There are two additional print and OOH executions and one TV spot around Samsung’s hockey and soccer sponsorships that also play on the phone ‘bot concept. McDermott-Santilli says they’ve started researching various international hand gestures to eventually use in ethnically targeted executions.
‘As soon as we began to brainstorm about executions for this, it started to snowball,’ she says. ‘That’s when we knew we had the right concept.’
This is the first original campaign by Cheil Canada, which had previously just adapted international work. McDermott-Santilli says the shop has been focusing more on crafting original Canadian work for the past year and a half. Cheil Worldwide, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, is Samsung’s international AOR.
advertiser: Adrianne Zabo,marketing manager,Samsung Canada
agency: Cheil Worldwide, Canada
ECD: Tom McManus
ACDs: Noreen McDermott-Santilli, Derek Neal
AD: Derek Neal
copywriter: Noreen McDermott-Santilli
junior AD: James Tuer
senior account manager: Angela Fitzpatrick
senior broadcast producer: Tessa Waisglass
account coordinator: Justyna Leitgeber
prodco: The Ebeling Group, Saddington & Baynes
executive producer: Mick Ebeling
senior producers: Neil Van Harte, Eliza Pelham Randall
producer: Amy Fahl
director: NAKD, Toronto
CDs: Chris Bahry, Alexandre Torres
animators: Vinicius Nascimento, Marcin Porebski, Marcus Alquéres, Leonardo Mateus, Chris Bahry, Alexandre Torres
compositing: Leonardo Mateus, Chris Bahry
lighting & rendering: Alexandre Torres, Chris Bahry
modelers: Lee H. Wolland,Sergio Yamasaki, Steve Kahwati, Joel LeLièvre, Jon Mitchell, Erick Geisler, Edmund Kozin
rigger: Paul Hormis
sound: Silent Joe, Toronto
music supervisor: Marco DiFelice
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