Being on diet can be really depressing, and sometimes even the result can’t make us happy. Unilever has come up with a controversial campaign for its Du Darfst brand of low-calorie products such as butter, sausage, cheese, spreads, prepared salads and more—the new marketing initiative, developed by Ogilvy Dusseldorf, encourages consumers to ‘Fuck the Diet’ (despite the campaign is in German, it uses the English tagline) and enjoy the food. The slogan seems to be even more controversial than those of Unilever’s AXE, which is thought to be launching the most outrageous campaigns, while the promotional elements are not edgy at all.
Year: 2012
Some news we want to share with our friend on Facebook are tragic—natural disasters, crimes, social inequality, horrible deeds, etc.—so ‘liking’ isn’t an appropriate thing to do with it. DDB Worldwide has come up with a great solution, the ‘I Care’ Button, which is already beta-tested on the new MTV Voices hub along with traditional buttons. The idea is the same: once you find some resonating information about social problems that are really worth sharing, click the ‘I Care’ button with a heart near the piece and the text, video or image appears on the user’s wall. The new button is created to “give people a way to show support for a wide variety of things such as: causes, social issues, charities, even government.”
Kraft Food’s chewing gum brand Trident has launched a debut global campaign, which celebrates all the opportunities life can give us. The new ‘See What Unfolds’ campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, which broke on Monday, is targeted at millennials—people in their 20s and 30s, who want to experience everything the day can give and make their own decisions. In its core idea, the new marketing initiative, which as reported by Ad Age is set to roll out in at least 17 countries, including the U.S., is in some way similar to the controversial Diesel’s ‘Be Stupid’ or Levi’s ‘Go Forth’ campaigns combined, but of course is less provoking than the first one and less rebellious than the second one.