Brand MarketingAd of the Day: Progressive’s Baby Man Is About to Spit Up in Your Facebook FeedNew character is designed for site's Premium Video AdsBy Tim Nudd|May 6, 2014 ShareBy Tim Nudd|May 6, 2014 Share Look out, Flo. There's a new babe in town. Actually, make that baby. Progressive Insurance is changing things up with a new campaign from Arnold featuring a wise-cracking man-child character and a new delivery platform—Facebook Premium Video Ads. The "Baby Man" campaign features just that—a grown man who acts like a baby. He's carried around his office in a baby carrier, slugs juice from a sippy cup and cracks jokes at his colleagues' expense. All of the ads end with a punching sound as the screen slams to white and a gruff voice announces: "Act your age! Dump your parents' insurance company." "Save @ Progressive.com" then appears on screen. The humor isn't exactly subtle. One of the 15-second spots opens with the Baby Man farting, then blaming it on a co-worker. Another ends with him spitting up on his mom. It's all part of a strategy of broad, visually arresting comedy that Progressive hopes grabs millennials' attention when the spots autoplay (users must click for sound) on Facebook. "This creative is different than anything people have seen from us before, and was designed for the [Facebook] placement," Jonathan Beamer, Progressive's marketing strategy and innovation business leader, tells Adweek. "Our goal is to break through the clutter of the newsfeed and to inspire people to evaluate their own insurance choices. Nobody should blindly accept his or her parents' choice—if young adults haven't reevaluated their insurance choices, they are probably not getting the value they deserve." Baby Man is a significant new initiative for Progressive, and he also has his own section on the Progressive website. But longtime spokeswoman character Flo isn't going anywhere, the company added. Indeed, she might want to join this campaign and whip the Baby Man into shape. CREDITS Client: Progressive Insurance Agency: Arnold Worldwide Executive Creative Directors: Pete Johnson, Wade Devers Group Creative Director: Sean McBride Art Director: Alyssa Wilson Georg Copywriter: Joshua Kahn Producers: Jaime Guild, Kathy McMann Assistant Producer: Lauren Landry Business Affairs: Kim Stevens, Lisa Mercier Planner: Milla Stolte Marketing Producers: Elliott Seaborn, Val Bettini, Caitlin Moran, Kelley Stenberg, Dorothy Johnson Social Media: Matt Karolian, Brandon Schug, Cristin Barth Production Company: 3rd Street Mining Company Production Company Executive Producer: John LaChapelle Production Company Line Producer: Barry Heaps Director: Ben Hurst, Dave Thomas Cinematographer: Munn Powell Editorial Company: Editbar Editor: Reuter Audio Mix: Brian Heidebrecht, Soundtrack Boston Color, Conform, Clean Up, Rig Removal: Zero VFX Adweek Adweek