IBM: Data Anthem

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Released: March 2010
Advertiser: IBM IBM
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather New York Ogilvy & Mather New York
Country: USA USA
Category: Home electronics & audio-visual Home electronics & audio-visual

Credits:

  • Client: IBM
    Spot: Data Anthem :30

    Agency: Ogilvy & Mather NY
    Executive Producer: Lee Weiss
    Associate Producer: Rich Fiset
    Sr. Partner/Worldwide ECD: Susan Westre
    Sr. Partner/ECD: Tom Godici
    Sr. Partner/ECD: Greg Ketchum
    Creative Director: Rob Jamieson
    Creative Director: Chris Van Oosterhout
    Art Director: TJ Walthall
    Executive Music Producer: Karl Westman
    Music Track: Viktor Karlsson, “Soul Captain”

    Production Company: Zoo Films, Los Angeles
    Director: James Frost
    Executive Producer: Gower Frost
    Line Producer: Dawn Fanning Moore

    Editorial: Union Editorial, Los Angeles
    Editor: Nicholas Wayman-Harris

    Post/FX: The Mill NY
    Producer: Boo Wong
    Creative Director: Jeff Stevens
    Design: Joshua Harvey, Kris Mercado
    CG Artists: Rob Petrie, Ruben Vandebroek, James Studdard, Vincent Baertsoen, Joshua Merck, Mike Dunkley, Jeffrey Dates, Jeffrey Lopez, Graham Clark, Marco Iozzi
    Flame: Dan Wiliams, Corey Brown, Claudia D’Enjoy
    Compositing: Andrew Ortiz, Bashir Hamid

    Aerial LIDAR: Aerotec USA
    Director- Operations & Program Management: Scott Dow
    Helicopter Pilot: Jamie Campbell
    Airborne LIDAR Operator: Danny Gay
    LIDAR Specialist: William Wallace
    Chief Executive Officer: Jim Dow

    Coign Asset Metrics & Technologies
    Business Sector Manager/Sr. Technical Lead: Travis Reinke
    Sr. Laser Scanning Technician: Chance Alford
    Sr. Laser Scanning Technician: Phil Barker

    Greg Ketchum, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy New York on IBM “Data Anthem”:
    In the next phase of IBM's Smarter Planet campaign, we're focusing our messaging on how organizations around the world are going about the business of actually building it. One of the pillars of building a smarter planet is the emergence of data and the ability to harness it for answers to our biggest problems. We wanted to educate business leaders on the importance of data, provide some context for its proliferation, and suggest the enormous opportunities that lie within it. We also wanted to convey to people that we now have the computational power and advanced analytics to see data in new ways so we can make sense of it. Hence, our interest in finding the most compelling, arresting ways possible of visualizing actual data. On a smarter planet, data matters.


    Info from Zoo Films director James Frost on IBM “Data Anthem”:
    When Ogilvy New York approached me with the concept for the spot, I was immediately interested as it was an opportunity to take everything I'd learnt from the Radiohead House of Card video I made and explore the different techniques possible with 3D scanning. The Radiohead project was showing data in its purest form - it had a distinctive look and feel and was very much exactly how I saw it for the song, where as with IBM we wanted build a world which was created from data and within this world show how data exists.

    The script called for very distinctive imagery so I wanted to explore doing something on a grander scale. Initially the idea was to scan the entire island of Manhattan, but for security reasons and ultimately creative reasons, the decision was made not to. We did however scan the entire downtown area of Houston, Texas. This had never been done before and we spent four days in the air scanning from a helicopter. In post production, we then worked very closely with Jeff Stevens and the team at The Mill, New York to add dimension and space within the environment. Ogilvy really wanted to convey the idea that our world is alive with data; so it became very important that we find a way to show this data in a colorful, vibrant and optimistic manner that would stay true to the voice of IBM.



The commercial titled Data Anthem was done by Ogilvy & Mather New York advertising agency for IBM company in USA. It was released in the March 2010. Business sector is Home electronics & audio-visual.

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