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ESPN.com "Fantasy Baseball"

Brand: ESPN.com
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Inc.
Review Date: March 11, 2009

I don't play fantasy baseball and rarely even watch a game, but I can appreciate a good commercial about how ESPN can help those who do. A new ESPN.com spot from Wieden + Kennedy in New York opens with a fan logging in to the site at his desk. Thankfully it then takes us not to the usual shots of the onscreen experience, but translates it instead into a moving sequence of live-action scenes enhanced by graphics and uses the ever-present digital marker, the slash, to move the ad along and take viewers through the “pages” of the experience. The ad moves from left to right as an address in your toolbar does and ends with a shot of actress Alyssa Milano, a self-described baseball fanatic who is writing a book about her tales of the sport, using the site. Play ball! --Eleftheria Parpis

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Overall rating:
(2.83 ) Good

6 Comments
  • 1. FB101 comments:
    May 28, 2009

    As a fantasy baseball insider and adguy - this spot is great!


  • 2. Ugh comments:
    March 14, 2009

    I feel so bad for what has happened to W/K. They have such great clients and do such a fair job at creative now. They were once the leader and now it's just whatever.


  • 3. marvin clonky comments:
    March 12, 2009

    I can think of a million better things to do with Alyssa Milano.


  • 4. roger comments:
    March 12, 2009

    GREAT!


  • 5. harry comments:
    March 12, 2009

    not mindblowing but def does a good job getting people ready for fantasy baseball season


  • 6. bumjungle comments:
    March 12, 2009

    terrible spot. WK NY has fallen on some hard times creatively. when was the last decent thing they did? 5 years ago?


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