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welcome to guesthouse.
Hello, Amy!
We’re Guesthouse. We keep things simple.
We’ve done famous work for huge premium brands, and left big agency life to help brands create work people care about, in a simpler way.
Spindrift couldn’t be more exactly who we had in mind. We love companies that do the right thing and help people even when no one’s looking. Especially beverage brands we already buy at Costco by the trunkful. 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 love getting rid of the silliness of agencies, and just making great stuff that works. We’re doing it now for brands like Every Man Jack, SAS, Flexcar, and The Home Depot.
We wanted to pre-share some of our work before our call, so we can skip awkward forced video-watching on Zoom, and focus our chat on your business, what you’re looking for, and how we can fit together.
Thanks for taking a look, and chat soon!
Mitch, Wes & Jeff
770-633-8862
mitch@welcometoguesthouse.com
“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.”
THE HARDEST WORKING HERBS ON EARTH
GAIA HERBS
The herbal supplement industry is super shady and loves that no one knows it. There are no rules, and many companies take crazy shortcuts (including not putting ANY herbs in their products). Gaia Herbs is different. They’re over-the-top herb nerds obsessed with making super premium supplements the right way, even though it’s waaaaay harder. We helped Gaia take a stand and challenge the industry to do better.
-Creativity Editor’s Pick
-Ad Age Top 5 Campaigns
-CBS Sunday Morning
-Industry press like this
-Real people press like this
First, we did something every other company would be terrified to do: We invited the FDA to come visit, any time.
A video, LinkedIn invite from Gaia’s awesome CEO, full page ad in the NYT and a social blitz made it clear we were serious.
Then we showed people exactly HOW we make the hardest working herbs on earth, featuring Gaia’s real employees herb-nerding it up.
“Employee testimonials usually put people to sleep, but they work like a charm in this new campaign for Gaia Herbs.”
Once we had everyone’s attention, we launched a social influencer campaign with Gisele Bündchen to promote Gaia’s Ultra Premium brand.
RESULTS
12% revenue increase year over year
2+ billion earned impressions
30% increase in Amazon sales
1 shocked federal regulatory body
COCA-COLA
We worked on Coke for 10 years, finding ways to tell stories that just wouldn’t work without the product.
“Falling” was named one of AdWeek’s Ads of the Year
Our NASCAR campaign helped Coke win NASCAR Marketer of the Year.
For Coke, summer is their Super Bowl. It’s the time where they have to show the next generation why their products aren’t their parents’ drinks. We created a social campaign that reintroduced names on Coke in a highly personal way, by creating a totally unique song and social video for each name on bottles of Coke. All 1,000.
COKE SUMMER
Drinks like Coke and Spindrift are only a couple bucks vs a luxury car, but we think it’s important for the brand to come across as premium and desirable. For Coke, that’s never more true than in summer. Our TV, OOH, and digital campaign captured the fun of being a teenage in the heat of summer, with very high end, premium imagery and vibes.
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. Even for comedy campaigns, we think it’s important to keep a premium feel to the art direction and production level, befitting of thier high-end brand.
-AdAge
-Roast Brief
-The Howler
-Indie Agency News
-Ads of the World
“GET MORE DONE” Social
We love shooting social videos using the setups and talent from the main spots, to roll out on SAS organic channels.
Some feature a mysterious awful jingle no one can stand, but that arguably kinda slaps.
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!
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
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.
We literally built Guesthouse to help premium brands like Spindrift do great creative work in a smarter, more nimble, way.
Also, we actually love the challenge of taking footage someone else has shot, and using that limitation to create something great. We’ll show you how we took European Coke footage and turned it into a Super Bowl spot that hit the top half of the USA Today Ad Meter.
Let us know if you have any questions we can answer Tuesday!
- Guesthouse
