Apple has a long tradition of holiday ads—notable past spots have included "Gift Exchange" for the Macintosh and of course last year's Santa spot with Siri for the iPhone 4S. On Tuesday night, Apple released its latest holiday commercial, "Turkey," timed to Thanksgiving, for the iPhone 5. It uses the holiday season, a propitious time for taking family photos, to push the device's Shared Photo Stream, which lets you share only the photos you want with only the people you want. As usual, we get a simple product demo, with pleasingly basic shots of a turkey and a pie, among other staples. (Thankfully, there's no gravy involved at all.) "It's as easy as pie," Jeff Daniels says in the voiceover. "Mmm, pie." A second spot, not specifically holiday related, has Daniels asking an orchestra to play louder and softer to demonstrate the iPhone 5's noise-canceling feature, which reduces excessive background noise when you're trying to make a phone call. These are the 94th and 95th TV spots in the almost 7-year-old campaign. See all the previous ones here. Credits for the new ones below.
CREDITS
Client: Apple
Agency: TBWA\Media Arts Lab
—Spot: "Turkey"
Chief Creative Officer: Duncan Milner
Executive Creative Director: Eric Grunbaum
Group Creative Directors: Chuck Monn, Chris Ribeiro
Associate Creative Director, Copywriter: Claire Morrisey
Art Director: Ren Toner
Copywriters: Anna Kate Roche, Lonnie Elliott
Executive Producer: Eric Voegele
Agency Producers: Serena Auroux, RJ Pomeroy, Chris Shaw, Chelsea Larner, Katie McCain
Production Company: Green Dot Films
Directors: Mark Coppos, Rebecca Baehler
Director of Photography: Fernando Cardenas
Editorial Company: Nomad Editing
Editors: Jared Coller, Kevin Clark
Postproduction: The Mill
Lead Flame Artist: Narbeh Mardirossian
Color Artist: Greg Reese
Music Credits:
Artist: Rob Simonson
Song: Original Composition
—Spot: "Orchestra"
Chief Creative Officer: Duncan Milner
Executive Creative Director: Eric Grunbaum
Group Creative Directors: Chuck Monn, Chris Ribeiro
Associate Creative Director, Art Director: Niraj Zaveri
Associate Creative Director, Copywriter: Brooks Jackson
Art Director: Ren Toner
Copywriter: Lonnie Elliott
Executive Producer: Eric Voegele
Agency Producers: Serena Auroux, R.J. Pomeroy, Chris Shaw, Chelsea Larner, Katie McCain
Production Company: Green Dot Films
Directors: Mark Coppos, Rebecca Baehler, Alain Briere
Directors of Photography: Fernando Cardenas, Igor Jadue-Lillo
Editorial Company: Nomad Editing
Editors: Jared Coller, Kevin Clark
Postproduction: The Mill
Lead Flame Artist: Narbeh Mardirossian
Color Artist: Adam Scott
Music Credits:
Artist: Rob Simonson
Song: Falcon Hero (live)
