Nike does not just want you to buy its soccer gear, it wants to reform the very game of futebol.
Ambition has never been a problem for the Beaverton crew.
But does the use of a dramatic skit–wherein journalists lose control of their live broadcast to a terrorist cell–seem rather insensitive and tasteless at the moment? I’m not saying it’s not the right scene. I’m asking.
The spot is incredibly well done and the point is beautifully made. It’s just that journalists are dying in war zones today. They are being captured and sometimes gruesomely beheaded.
The video was produced by Wieden & Kennedy and F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, who handle work for Nike in Brazil.
