In a world of oversaturation, overstimulation, and overexposure, the cinemagraph is what the advertising world needed; a visually fresh approach different enough to catch the viewers’ attention, yet familiar enough to be effective. Case in point, AdWeek calls the cinemagraph Grecco created for Pizza Hut’s Billy on the Street spot,

“…eye-catching, even hypnotic.”

A cinemagraph is part film, part still photograph. You can shoot still, motion or a combination of both to create the end result. Ultimately, it usually looks like a still photograph with elements of the background and/or foreground highlighted in either a short looped or linear video feed.

On top of being a completely new approach to broadcast advertising, cinemagraphs are equally, if not more, useful via current social media platforms. Philippe LeBlanc, co-founder and CEO of cinemagraph software company Flixel agrees,

“…autoplay makes it feel much more natural.”

The end result is the perfect way to embed something new, yet comfortable, into ones usual surroundings. Compound the incubator social media provides the cinemagraph with the mesmerization it invokes in a broadcast media environment, one can only conclude it is the best medium for visual ad campaigns. – Michael

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