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Kia Brings Back The Singing Hamsters In Upbeat New Commercial, Share Some Soul

The world needs more Soul. Every day it seems like more and more negativity fills our screens and people are becoming increasingly divided. But it’s time to change that. It’s time to celebrate our differences and unite. In the latest Kia Soul commercial, we see the Hamsters bring different people and cultures together through the power of music, and put more positivity out in the world.

Below: We didn’t just show people coming together in the latest Kia Hamsters commercial. We actually did it. Soul Sessions features Nathaniel Rateliff, DJ/Producers Bunt., and over 25 other musicians from all over the world coming together to record and create the music for the commercial at Capitol Records in its famous Studio A. Source: Kia

Creative Credits
Agency: David&Goliath
Founder & Chairman: David Angelo
Chief Creative Officer: Colin Jeffery
Chief Digital Officer: Mike Geiger
President: Brian Dunbar
Chief Strategy Officer: Seema Miller

Director of Creative Services: Frannie Rhodes Creative Director: Basil Cowieson Creative Director: Greg Buri Creative Director: Yo Umeda ACD/Art Director: Robert Casillas
ACD/Copywriter: Courtney Pulver
Art Director: Eron Broughton
Copywriter: Gary du Toit
ACD/Copywriter: Devin Heatley
Senior Interactive Art Director: Bernice Chao Senior Project Manager: Kemit Ray

Director of Broadcast Production: Paul Albanese Executive Broadcast Producer: Curt O’Brien Junior Producer: Natalia Celis Director of Art Production: Andrea Mariash Senior Print Production Manager: Elisa Atwood Director of Digital Production: Peter Bassett Digital Producer: Justine Kleeman

Managing Director: Jeff Moohr
Group Account Director: Mike O’Malley
Management Supervisor: Aleks Rzeznik
Account Supervisor: Tara Poosti
Account Executive: Jenavieve Cazares
Digital Account Director: Jeanann Grubbs Digital Account Supervisor: Sarah Kirsch

Planning Director: Andrew Lynch
Senior Planner: Ed Gibson
Senior Digital Strategist: Rachel Fletcher Senior Social Strategist: Natalie Gomez

Director, Business Affairs: Rodney Pizarro Business Affairs Associate Manager: Daniella Vargas

Product Information Manager: Russell Wortman Product Information Manager: Mark McNaul

Production Company: Radical Media
Director: Colin Jeffery
Director of Photography: Toby Irwin
President: Frank Scherma
Head of Production: Cathy Dunn
Producer: Kathy Rhodes

Editorial Company: Union Editorial
Editor: Jim Haygood
Assistant Editor: Jed Stuber
Managing Partner/President: Michael Raimondi Executive Producer: Joe Ross

VFX: JAMM VFX
VFX Supervisor/CG Lead: Andy Boyd
VFX Supervisor/Lead Compositor: Jake Montgomery Flame Artist: Patrick Munoz Flame Artist: David Hernandez Nuke Artist: Brinton Jaecks Previs Lead: Javier Lopez-Duprey CG Artist: Zachary DiMaria CG Artist: Nha Ca Chau CG Modeling: Joel Durham CG Animator: Ellie Mason CG Animator: Joshua Merck CG Animator: Evan Mayfield CG Tracking: Peregrine McCafferty CG Tracking: Amélie Guyot CG Tracking: Philippe Medina CG Tracking: Damien Bouvier Matte Painting: Roger Kupelian Final Mastering: Rob Ufer
Producer: Ashley Greyson
Executive Producer: Asher Edwards

Photographer: Vincent Dixon
Assistant Photographer: Michael Henika
Agency: Brite Productions
Production: David Safian; SaF Productions
Retouching: FEELgood
Composite: TheLab

Licensed Music: Dueling Banjos
By: Arthur Smith
Publishing: EMI Blackwood Music Inc. obo Combine Music Corp. (BMI)

Music & Sound Design: Squeak E. Clean Productions Arranged by: Charles Rojas Creative Director: Rob Barbato Executive Producer: Carol Dunn
Producer: Chris Shaw

Record Label: Bunt. Records
Producers: Bunt.

Mix: Lime
Sound Engineer: Mark Meyuhas
Executive Producer: Susie Boyajan

Ethnomusicology: UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology
Consultant: Steven Loza, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
Consultant: Ganavya Doraiswamy, M. Mus., Ph.D., Researcher, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
Consultant: Rajna Swaminathan, Ph.D., Researcher, Department of Music, Harvard University