Happy New Year! We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone across Creative Studio for continuing to "Invent The Game". Your amazing work inspires us and we look forward to more collaborations in 2024. Here are a few recent projects we would like to share from our neck of the woods 🎊 🙏 👏 🤘

01. CFP SEMIFINALS

COLLEGE FOOTBALL


BEST STORY WINS

The College Football season is a collection of amazing stories. but only 4 remain in the College Football Playoff Semifinals.  In this evolution of "The Greatest Story Ever Played" campaign we headline the last teams standing as they look to write themselves into history. May the best story win.

A SEMINAL MOMENT... 👀

2023 CFP SEMIFINALS / PROJECT CREDITS


INTERNAL PARTNERS

Grande & Leonard (G&L)
Sports Marketing


EXTERNAL PARTNERS

Arts & Letters Agency
Fresh Paint Media

02. THE MARVELS

MOVIE STUDIO / WALT DISNEY STUDIOS


TRADING PLACES

Building off The Marvels concept which involves the heroes switching superpowers, this commercial shows us what would happen if your favorite athletes traded places. Watch as tennis phenom Coco Gauff, WNBA Legend Diana Taurasi and U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone go higher, further, faster, together.

STAR POWER 😤

Sydney McLaughlin
Track & Field

Coco Gauff
Tennis

Diana Taurasi
Basketball

THE MARVELS / PROJECT CREDITS


INTERNAL PARTNERS

Creative Development & Ad Integration
Agency Production
Talent Development and Negotiations
Disney CreativeWorks Solutions
Sports Brand Solutions
Disney Ad Sales

EXTERNAL PARTNER

Fin Studios (Production)

03. MERCEDES-BENZ

COLLEGE FOOTBALL / SOCIAL CAMPAIGN


PODCAST VAN

The Mercedes-Benz Vans team challenged CreativeWorks to develop a custom van concept that aligned with their Sprinter Labs platform for the 2023-24 College Football season. After several months of collaboration across multiple teams inside and outside ESPN, the result was a customized Mercedes-Benz van that was much, much more than just the ultimate game day tailgating vehicle - it was also fully equipped with the cameras, mics, lighting and hardware to be a video production studio on wheels wrapped in ESPN CFB and MB Sprinter Labs branding from the grill to the tail pipe. This ESPN College Football Sprinter Lab became an engine for creating content in a number of different ways and traveled to select College GameDay locations throughout the season to serve as a mobile set for podcast interviews hosted by Jen Lada while also delivering on the mission to become the ultimate symbol of the customization capabilities of Mercedes-Benz Vans.

ON THE ROAD 🚐

Click here for exclusive interviews!

Maurice "Mo" Hurst II
University of Michigan / San Francisco 49ers

Kenneth Murray
University of Oklahoma / Los Angeles Chargers

Greg Sankey
Commissioner of the SEC

MERCEDES-BENZ VAN / PROJECT CREDITS


INTERNAL PARTNERS

Creative Development & Ad Integration
Production, Edit & Operations
Sports Brand Solutions
Disney Ad Sales
Disney CreativeWorks Solutions
Talent Development and Negotiations
Digital Video Production
ESPN Directing
Facilities Operations
Studio Operations

04. SYNCHRONY

FINANCIAL SERVICES


SAVING IS EASIER WITH SYNCHRONY

For this campaign, we again partnered with Synchrony to showcase how saving with Synchrony is so much easier than all the saves our ESPN Talent must make around the Bristol offices all day.

SWAGU SAVES 👊

SYNCHRONY / PROJECT CREDITS


INTERNAL PARTNERS

Creative Development & Ad Integration
Agency Production
Production, Edit & Operations
Talent Development and Negotiations
Disney CreativeWorks Solutions
Sports Brand Solutions
Disney Ad Sales

EXTERNAL PARTNER

The Vault (Production)

05. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT

PREMIUM INTEGRATION


CINEMATIC TRAILER

Ahead of the release of MGM’s TheBoys in the Boat, ESPN Creative Studio partnered with SportsCenter production to produce a Cinematic Trailer that connected the theme of the film to the College Football Playoff Semifinals. Running as a lead in to CFP coverage, the Trailer, voiced by Rece Davis, seamlessly connected the theme of “rowing together” to our content. The client was thrilled with the alignment and will be coming back for two additional cinematic trailers to align with future titles.

THE RACE IS ON 💨

THE BOYS IN THE BOAT / PROJECT CREDITS


INTERNAL PARTNERS

Creative Development & Ad Integration
Production, Edit & Operations
Sports Brand Solutions
Disney Ad Sales
Talent Development and Negotiations
SportsCenter Production