Midas introduces Frank the puppet in new ad via AJF Partnership
Car servicing brand Midas has launched a new campaign introducing the puppet Frank via GrowthOps’ AJF Partnership.
Frank is intended to represent Midas’ “trustworthy frankness”, created by The Puppet Creation Lab.
In one of the 30-second spots, Frank details how Midas inspects cars, with a few visual gags and puns.
In a press released, the puppet said: “Let’s be frank about press releases, they all sound the same. There’s the usual quote from the G.M of Marketing that I am ‘actually a distinctive asset that will cut through and engage with our audience,’ then the agency CD says something that makes the client happy like ‘Frank is always frank and honest, not only when it comes to car repairs, but also in life’ blah, blah, blah. It then usually wraps up with a ridiculously long list of credits of people that only spent five minutes working on the campaign.”
Frank continued: “But at Midas, we’re different. Instead, we’ve made this press release nice and short so you can go straight to checking out the creative and start thinking about what razor-sharp witticism you’re going to write in the comments below – anonymously of course.”
The campaign was launched yesterday on TV, radio, social and online.
One of the campaign assets
Credits:
Client: Midas
• Bapcor Retail Executive General Manager: Tim Cockayne
• General Manager: Rob Lewis
• Bapcor Retail General Manager Marketing: Karl Winther
• Local Area Marketing & Media Manager: Cameron McMahon
• Advertising Coordinator: James Tavitian
Creative: AJF Partnership
• Executive Creative Director and Founder: Adam Francis
• Creative Director: Andy Jones
• Senior Copywriter: Matt Newman
• Senior Art Director: Rhyen Ellis
• Client Partner: Bryce Coombe
• Senior Account Director: Ferne Archer
• Senior Strategist: Elyse Scott
• Senior Integrated Manager: Paul Davis
• Film and Photography Producer: Soraya Darwish
Film Production: Sweetshop
• Director: Max Barden
• Managing Director: Edward Pontifex
• Executive Producer: Greg Fyson
• Producer: Tom Davies
• Post Production: ARC edit
• Producer: Freya Maddock
• Editor: James Ashbolt
• Colourist: Edel Rafferty
• Flame Artist: Eugene Richards
• Sound: Final Sound
• Sound Engineer: Craig Conway
• Producer: Pip Wright
Puppet Creation: The Puppet Creation Lab
• Puppet Maker: Michael Lanzer
• Puppeteer: Jarrod Fairclough
Photographer
• Garth Oriander
Media: Hatched
• Founder and Owner: Jack Byrne
• Managing Partner: Stephen Fisher
I think this is more muppet-adjacent than puppet
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