Avocados And Coconuts produces Freshly’s first integrated brand campaign

Creative production agency Avocados and Coconuts recently partnered with Freshly, the leading subscription service providing fully prepared, nutritionist-approved meals that are delivered fresh to your door and ready-to-eat in three minutes. 

Producing the brand’s first integrated campaign for TV called Your Daily Dilemma, Answered, the spot includes :30, :15 and :06 versions and will appear on TV, DRTV, pre-roll, social media, Hulu, and YouTube.

“I am incredibly proud of this humorous and highly relatable campaign,” said Shelly Kaushal, Senior Director of Brand Marketing & Media at Freshly. “We were inspired by the insight that we make an average of 35,000 decisions a day, leading to information overload and question fatigue. Our Creative team, led by Kate Keparutis, built on that, presenting Freshly as the effortless answer to your daily ‘What’s for Dinner?’ dilemmas, playfully suggesting that while life can be overwhelming, mealtime doesn’t have to be.”

“We love doing food and tabletop work, and collaborating with brands like Freshly whose products appeal to our own values as a company,” added Dalia Burde, Founder and Executive Producer at Avocados and Coconuts. “Whether we are on set or entertaining clients in the office, we only set the table with healthy, delicious, and sustainably sourced and packaged food. The Freshly team was an absolute pleasure to work with through the entire process, from our early creative brainstorming sessions to production and post.”

Avocados and Coconuts emphasized a speedy, character-focused approach that culminates with Freshly’s delicious and healthy dinner options. The energetic spot follows a young professional careening through the hundreds of questions one faces in a day of appointments, work emails, and a high-intensity spin class, only to hit her breaking point when faced with the question of what to eat for dinner. Fortunately, the woman and her partner have ready-made meals on hand from Freshly, offering balanced, fully-prepared meals “for days when you just can’t.” 

Starting with the campaign’s development, Avocados and Coconuts Director Adam Patch was excited to dive right in. “Freshly’s in-house team had a script in place when they approached us, and the concept of the campaign was instantly relatable,” explained Patch. “While they shared references for the look and feel, they were incredibly engaged and keen on our input, particularly, in taking a visual-forward storytelling approach.”

In order to create the visual tone of a frantic day, Patch proposed high-speed camera movements, fast, snappy camera moves and edits. “Creatively, I wanted to make it feel more personal about the character; to show how she’s feeling overwhelmed going about her day. So, we captured close-ups of her and her reactions as much as possible.”