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Entrant: Dentsu Creative, New York
Brand: FTX
Title: "FTX Larry David: Don’t Miss Out"
Corporate Name of Client: FTX
Client Head of Marketing: Nathaniel Whittemore
Client Head of Partnerships: Sina Nader
Client VP of Partnerships: Lou Frangella
Agency: Dentsu Creative, New York
Agency President of West Region: Laurel Flatt
Chief Creative Officer: Menno Kluin
Executive Creative Director: Jason Stefanik
Creative Director: Andrew Hunter
Senior Copywriter: Daniel Freeda
Senior Art Director: Christian Maine De Biran
Agency Graphic Designers: Sophia del Plato/Luis Valencia/Emily Thomas
Agency Head of Production: Ed Zazzera
Agency Director of Integrated Production: Stacy Kay
Executive Agency Producer: Andrea Rastogi
Senior Agency Producer: Adrienne Darnell
Agency Group Design Director: Brian Gartside
Agency SVP, Integrated Production: Carissa Ranelycke
Agency SVP, Integrated Strategy: Anna Conroy
Agency Associate Director, Strategy: Kathryn Saulitis
Agency SVP, Global Music Production: Jerry Krenach
Agency Senior Music Producer: Stephen Stallings
Agency Music Licensing Producer: Kaylyn Keane
Agency SVP, Project Management: Melissa Cohen
Agency Chief Strategy Officer: Jamie Shuttleworth
Agency Brand Strategist: Anna Conroy
Agency Account Executive: Kari Ludvigson
Agency Account Director: Tori Howlett
Agency EVP, Account Management: Tanya?Kesmodel
Agency VP, Business Affairs and Talent: Joanne Garber
Agency Senior Manager, Business Affairs and Talent: DJ Gaffey
Agency Business Affairs and Talent: Sue Ayson, Director
Agency EVP, Public Relations: Stacey Kerans
Agency Director, Public Relations: Michael Olson
Agency EVP, Client President: Daniel Maiello
Agency Senior Public Relations Manager: Greta Gustafson
Agency Associate Public Relations Manager: Marianna Adgemian
Agency SVP, Marketing and Communications: Kelly Harrison
Agency External Communications Lead: Katrina Cabrera
Agency Director of Brand Communications: Katie Walley-Wiegert
Graphis Company: DIA , New York
Photographer: Jason Nocito
Production Company: Partizan
Production Company Managing Director/Executive Producer: Lisa Tauscher
Director: Jeff Schaffer
Production Company Executive Producer/Head of Sales: Mike Lobikis
Head of Production: Ani Mikirdichian
Producer: Raffi Adlan
Director of Photography: Darren Lew
Production Designer: Jeffrey Beecroft
Production Company Costume Designer: Christina Mongini
Production Company Japanese Translator: Yumi Mizui
VFX Company: Method
VFX Companies Creative Directors: Warren Paleos/Rob Walker
On Set VFX Supervisor: Jesse Bradstreet
Compositing Supervisors: Kyle Andal/Gerard Andal
Supervising VFX Producer: Kristin Engdahl
FX Artist: Alejandro Echeverry
Lead Flame Artist: Chihcheng Peng
Senior CG Supervisor: Alex Cheparev
3D Animator: Cecilia Nguyen
VFX Company Coordinator: Olivia Vitagliano
Edit Facility: Mackcut (Editorial)
Editors: Ian Mackenzie/Mike Rizzo
Assistant Editors: Cooper McLane/Franklin Ponce
Edit Facility Executive Producer: Gina?Pagano
Edit Facility Audio Mixer (Teasers): Sam Shaffer
Color Company: Company3
Color Company Producer: Cassidy Conway
Colorist: Kath Raisch
Sound Design Company: Heard City
Sound Design Company Senior Producer: Liana Rosenberg
Audio Mixer: Keith Reynaud
Music Production Company: JSM
CEO/CCO/Composer: Joel Simon
VP/Executive Producer: Jeff Fiorello
Senior Producers: Norm Felker/Andrew Manning
Music Producer: Sharon Cha
Music Composer: Seamus Kilmartin
Executive Producer: Bennett Lieber

Description:
For most Americans, crypto is for the few. It's at the intersection of too good to be real and too real to ignore. Subsequently, most people are still sitting on the sidelines waiting for the time to be right. We took their hesitation head-on by demonstrating just how idiotic it is to miss out on the next big thing.

For our Super Bowl spot, we told the story of a person they DON’T want to be – someone who always passes up on the next big thing - as an invitation for viewers to avoid being that person.

Who better to represent someone who'd pass up every good opportunity than Mr. Skeptic himself, Larry David? And what better backdrop to tell this story against than the defining inventions throughout human history.

In our spot, we show Larry David passing up on ‘the next big thing’ throughout history -- Inventions that are now the backbone of our everyday existence (the wheel, the fork, the phone) -- to prove just how idiotic it is to miss out on something that is clearly the next big thing. Just like crypto.

In our mission for mass awareness/adoption and to propel crypto into mainstream culture and acceptance, we delivered across multiple touchpoints; consumer conversation volume, quantity and quality of press placements, sentiment in a cluttered category and ultimately - closing the sale.

The acceptance and praise from people and press was evidenced by 31.7B impressions in earned media (most of crypto), the most brand mentions after the halftime show, highest positive sentiment, and 47M views on YouTube.

But it was also met with the beginnings of the behavior change we strived for - and with an 130% boost in app downloads, and 5.5x more next day web traffic than closest competitor - we saw more Americans feel the FOMO, believe it's too real to ignore, and take the steps to go from one day to day one.