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Written By THE MARTIN AGENCY

Making Video Ads That Work on Facebook’s Silent Screen

Advertising

By SAPNA MAHESHWARI and KATIE BENNER 

SEPT. 25, 2016

THE GEICO commercial that made its premiere this summer seemed like a standard 30-second television ad. It features two men building sand castles on a pristine beach with their children. “Guess what I just did?” one of the men asks. “Built a sand castle?” the other responds. “Ha — no. I switched to Geico and got more,” the first man says.

But another version of that ad was created by the Martin Agency, which worked on the commercial for Geico. This one was half as long, with text that popped up as the men spoke, and the word “Geico” appeared after six seconds.

The goal: to make the ad understandable to people who viewed it on Facebook without sound.

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About The Martin Agency

We are a full-service creative agency with a proven ability in leveraging audience and cultural intelligence to build distinctive brands globally. We’re committed to fighting invisibility with ideas that permeate culture, work that drives results for our clients, and a culture our employees are proud of. From creating the beloved GEICO Gecko, to modernizing UPS, a 115-year-old brand, by making them relevant to a new generation of culture-shifters and entrepreneurs, to lighting the internet on fire with Solo Stove’s “Snoop Goes Smokeless” campaign, we’ve been behind some of the most significant brand transformations in history. We're creating steady buzz for brands like Papa Johns, OREO, CarMax, UPS and TIAA, to name a few. And as Ad Age’s Agency of the Year (2023), 2x Fast Company Most Innovative Companies (2023 and 2024) and back-to-back Adweek Agency of the Year (2020 and 2021), our momentum is only building. For more information, visit www.martinagency.com.

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The Martin Agency | Katherine Sheehan | katherine.sheehan@martinagency.com

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