Ad of the Day: Southern Comfort Gets You Buzzed for Shark Week

It’s Shark Week again. But you already knew that, didn’t you? You’ve seen it mentioned every 30 seconds in your Twitter feed. At least one-quarter of your Facebook friends have been posting incessantly about how psyched they are about it. Every news site on the Internet (including this one, natch) has posted at least a dozen stories alerting you to everything from its marketing potential to the dubiousness of its “documentaries” (fun fact: the 35-foot-long “submarine shark” is not real). There’s a man with a megaphone on your street corner yelling “Shark Week!” at the top of his lungs, 24 hours a day. By now, you might be wondering what all of this has to do with a Southern Comfort spot. Well, it seems that SoCo has too fallen prey to shark fever (which is not an actual illness, but is the title of a Baywatch episode), as evidenced by latest installment in the brand’s super-weird-but-kind-of-great “Whatever’s Comfortable” campaign from Wieden + Kennedy in New York. The new spot, titled “Shark” (yep), features the campaign’s first female lead. Dressed in an aggressively acid-washed denim jacket, she sits alone at a jazz club, tapping her finger along to the beat. Upon further inspection, we discover that her talon-like nails are decorated with expertly airbrushed sharks’ jaws, which she uses to slowly stir her drink before piercing the maraschino cherry at the bottom of the glass like a bloody piece of prey and depositing it into her own gaping maw. In case you're still not feeling Shark Week-ed out, Southern Comfort is also adding a shark-based social digital layer to the campaign. The brand has apparently “adopted” a shark, which it has dubbed The Sharktender. Starting tomorrow, SouthernComfort.com will track his whereabouts while also offering “location-based drink recommendations.” Yeah, it's sort of ridiculous, but if you’re going to sit through four hours of “Zombie Sharks” and “Air Jaws: Fin of Fury” on Discovery, you’re probably better off plastered. CREDITS Client: Brown-Forman Spot: “Shark” Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, New York Executive Creative Director: Susan Hoffman Creative Directors: Jimm Lasser, Caleb Jensen Creatives: Laddie Peterson, Jeff Dryer Producer: Orlee Tatarka Head of Content Production: Nick Setounski Account Team: Toby Hussey, Katie Hoak Production Company: Biscuit Filmworks Director: Steve Rogers Executive Producer: Holly Vega Managing Director: Shawn Lacy Line Producer: Kathy Rhodes Director of Photography: Benoit Delhomme Editing Company: Mackenzie Cutler Editor: Gavin Cutler Assistant Editor: Ryan Steele Post Executive Producer: Sasha Hirschfeld Visual Effects Company: The Mill Visual Effects Senior Producers: Orlaith Finucane, Aleen Kim Flame Artist, Creative Director: Jade Kim (Lead), Margolit Steiner Computer Graphics Artist: Laurent Giaume Song: "Little Red Riding Hood" Artists: Bushwalla (Lead Vocals), Sallie Ford (Background Vocals), Graeme Gibson, Sallie Ford (Instrumentals) Music Company: Walker Mix Company: Sonic Union Mixer: Steve Rosen

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Ad of the Day: Southern Comfort Gets You Buzzed for Shark Week

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