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welcome to guesthouse.
Hello, Abhi!
We’re Guesthouse. We keep things simple.
We’ve done famous work for huge brands, and left big agency life to help brands create work people care about, in a simpler way.
As horror lovers, connecting Fangoria’s network of fans with brands and their stories couldn’t be more or a fit. We’re senior talent working directly on the creative, from strategy to concept to production. We’re built to act less like an agency, more like a natural part of your team. We’re doing it now for brands like Every Man Jack, SAS, Flexcar, and The Home Depot.
Thanks for taking a look, and let’s find a way to work together!
Mitch, Wes & Jeff
770-633-8862
mitch@welcometoguesthouse.com
TURNING “FOLLOW US AND WE’LL FOLLOW YOU” INTO A REAL-LIFE CREEPSHOW
MELLOW MUSHROOM
Mellow Mushroom is a pizza place with a laid-back hippie mentality and a stoned mushroom for a mascot. To get more followers on Twitter, we told people if you follow us, we'll follow you. We didn't mention we'd be using your social info to do it in real life, in the company's terrifying mushroom costumes. The campaign was featured in the New York Times, named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's "Top 3 Marketing Masterworks," and for years Twitter used it as an example of how best to use Twitter.
See more of the campaign here.
“I have found working with Guesthouse to be incredibly unique. From the outset, they have been a great thought partner and really an extension of our internal creative team.”
COCA-COLA
We worked on Coke for 10 years, finding ways to tell stories that just wouldn’t work without the product and the brand partner. Just like you need to connect Fangoria’s story with that of brands, we helped connect Coca-Cola with Six Flags, NASCAR, Walmart, American Idol, and many more.
A cobranded Six Flags spot, “Falling” was named one of AdWeek’s Ads of the Year
No Six Flags relationship is complete without terrifying people at Fright Fest.
COKE SUMMER
The best advertising - and the best horror - taps into a real human truth. For Coke X Delta, we went straight at the worst thing about air travel - and create the Middle Seat Lounge, where we celebrated the pour souls with the worst seat on the plane.
Our NASCAR campaign helped Coke win NASCAR Marketer of the Year. See more here.
R E M I N D E R
EVERYONE HATES advertising.
BUT THEY LOVE INTERESTING THINGS.
LET’S MAKE INTERESTING THINGS TOGETHER.
SAS VIYA
“GET MORE DONE” TV
We helped data and AI solutions company SAS create funny B2B commercials, with a global TV, digital, and social campaign called “Get More Done.” Guesthouse wrote, produced, and directed the spots, which feature all our favorite things - coworkers freaking out, a tense pizza standoff, and a ritual sacrifice.
Comedy and horror have a lot of overlap in the way you use surprise and performance, and we think this campaign does a good job of that.
A FEW MORE!
UNEXPECTED WORK FOR BRANDS
Wes, Mitch & Jeff have led top agencies across the country. Their work has a way of getting talked about in the press and social, earning many millions in free media, winning global creative awards you probably don’t care about, and global effectiveness awards you might. They’re most proud of the results they’ve helped their clients achieve, and the excitement it can create in an organization. They love teaching students, mentoring creatives, and training teams on how to get to big ideas. They’re able to write in third person like it’s no big deal.
Wes Whitener, Mitch Bennett, and Jeff Quick, Founders & partners
A word from our sponsorS
We always shoot interviews of our brand partners on set to help them introduce their campaigns internally. Sometimes they say super nice things about working with Guesthouse in the process. Here are those things!
As a commercial & video director, Wes Whitener has shot campaigns for brands like SAS, Flexcar, The Home Depot, Magic Spoon, Five Guys, Checkers & Rally’s, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. So at Guesthouse, the same people shaping the work can bring it to life as well. No handoffs, nothing lost in translation from kickoff to going live. Our Guesthouse roster also includes great social content creators and producers to make sure the job goes off without a hitch.
(We’re anti-hitch.)
Thanks for looking, and let’s keep chatting! We’d love to plug in and help Fangoria give brand partners access to great horror-based advertising and brand acts / PR Stunts. We’d also like to write on the next Chainsaw Awards - just putting that out there in the universe. 🔗🪚🩸🏆
- Guesthouse
OK ONE MORE!
A long, long time ago, we partnered with Leslie Chilcott, producer of An Inconvenient Truth, to create Unscrew America, the energy-efficient lightbulb campaign. This zombie video was fun to make. You can see the rest here.