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Levi’s Let’s Get Fuzzy
For the holidays, Levi’s made a 60-second claymation film in which a rampaging yeti is won over by a red sweater and welcomed into a cabin party. The entirely hand-made production took four hours of filming per second and used no AI, turning the craft itself into a timely counterpoint to AI-heavy advertising.
Why it worked: It flipped the AI hype cycle by quantifying extreme handcraft (four hours per second, zero AI), creating a timely, contrarian proof of effort.
The lesson: Consider pitching a labor-meter: publicly log real hours, iterations, or costs to prove uncommon effort against a trend everyone’s automating.
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How this story spread across the media
| Publication | Headline | Date |
|---|---|---|
| adweek.com | Levi’s Rings in Sweater Season With Help From Gus, a Cute Claymation Yeti | Monday 2nd November, 2026 |
| designrush.com | Levi’s Spends 4 Hours per Second on Handmade Claymation as AI Ads Pile Up | Monday 2nd November, 2026 |
| marketingdive.com | Levi’s claymation holiday campaign celebrates handmade craft amid AI bloat | Marketing Dive | Tuesday 3rd November, 2026 |
| wwd.com | Denim Brands Launch Holiday Campaigns | Tuesday 3rd November, 2026 |
| creativebloq.com | Levi's stop-motion masterpiece is a lesson in Christmas advertising | Wednesday 4th November, 2026 |
| ypulse.com | Levi’s is betting human effort will stand out in an ad market flooded with AI. - YPulse | Thursday 5th November, 2026 |
| stopmotionmagazine.com | Levi’s Let’s Get Fuzzy: Inside Blinkink’s Stop-Motion Film | Friday 6th November, 2026 |