Around the World in 80 Days in 6 Seconds: YouTube Challenges Agencies to Shrink Classic Books into Short Ads


Who says you can’t tell a wonderfully complex story in six seconds?

Certainly not YouTube, which challenged creatives in the ad world to adapt Western civilization’s best books into six-second videos.

The request from YouTube was meant to showcase its new six-second video ad format, created for the mobile viewers who have little time for 30-second commercial interruptions. So, the video service tapped Madison AvenueJ. Walter Thompson, Wieden & Kennedy, Deutsch and other filmmakersto condense some of the most complex stories ever written into a super-short format.

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