Procter & Gamble has released a new brilliantly humorous ad for Old Spice following the launch of the deeply emotional and dramatic videos in the ‘Thank you, Mom’ campaign. The baldest brand in the company’s portfolio is presenting a skinny man, who managed to reach all of his ambitious goals with the help of affirmations recorded on tapes, which are played via a walkman designed as an Old Spice deodorant packaging. The ‘I Will Live Forever’ advert, created by Widen+Kennedy (the agency behind P&G’s Olympic push), was released yesterday, July 23, as part of the ‘Believe In Your Smelf’ campaign, launched in spring 2012.
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Popular manly antiperspirant brand Old Spice is rolling out a new inspirational promotion dubbed ‘Believe in Your Smellf.’ The new campaign, which has already taken the Old Spice UK Facebook page, is centered on the idea of every day championship and is promoting the new Champion set of a deodorant, an antiperspirant and a body wash from the Old Spice Red Zone line, which also includes After Hours, Aqua Reef, Pure Sport, Swagger, and Danger Zone products.
Procter&Gamble delivers two brands in one commercial—the company released two ads, in which it puts two products into the spotlight at the same time. One of the adverts starts with a presentation of Bounce Dryer Bar in a laundry room, and while a gentle woman is telling how to use the product, shouting Terry Crews invades the room by crashing through the wall on his jet ski. It is just like a huge explosion, but the Old Spice’s spokesperson just couldn’t help it—“Old Spice is so powerful it sell itself in other people’s commercials.” The shocked female presenter without any hesitation (though, with a sour face) admits that the invader does smell power. While Isaiah Mustafa, the iconic Old Spice face, has a more refined, ‘the best man (and sometimes Santa Claus) in the world,’ Crews has being sticking to a more aggressive ‘breakthrough’ manner to advertize the product.
It was not an easy year for Old Spice Man, as he fought with Fabio in summer to reclaim the crown and flew to distant exotic places to promote the new scents, but it doesn’t mean that he is worn out and hasn’t got anything special for his dear fans this Christmas season. Now, Isaiah Mustafa has become Old Spice MANta Claus and is going to make everyone on the globe happy these days by sending presents to all 7 billion people. You say it’s impossible? Watch the earlier videos of the campaign and you’ll change your mind—this man can do everything. Really.
Old Spice believes that having a deodorant with a great smell is not enough to start using it—sometimes, it simply gets lost in a bathroom or a suitcase or its packaging is so slippery that you just can’t grab it. So, the brand is launching a new accessory, the Bear Deodorant Protector, which will help men always have their Old Spice ready to hand—starting today, November 23, the new offering is available for just $19.99. The new item looks so meaningless, that it seems to be just a joke. But no, “this product is real and is available for purchase” from Facebook, says the promotional video, which plays up the retro vibe. And when you don’t use your antiperspirant in the new case, you can just look at the bear “as long as you want until you need more deodorant.”
Last week, Old Spice launched a spinoff of its hilarious ‘Be Like a Man, Man’ campaign, introducing a new spokeshunk, 50-something Fabio, who came to replace the hilarious Old Spice Guy, Isaiah Mustafa for a short period, while he is busy in Hollywood. Procter& Gamble stated that the previous, much-loved character will return, but the audience didn’t expect that it’ll happen so soon (yet, he was battling with the newcomer online on Twitter since the launch of the new phase).
Old Spice has introduced a new protagonist of in a series of ads to promote deodorants with scents of exotic places. Isaiah Mustafa, who got featured in the brand’s extremely popular campaign last year and appeared in ads promoting the resort-inspired line earlier this year, has stepped off the scene to give more space to a new (old) guy, bodice-ripper Fabio Lanzoni (or just Fabio), who has starred in a set of tongue-in-cheek 30-second commercials, promoting the product. Is the new ‘hunk’ a new ‘man your man could smell like?’ Please, no.
The hilarious series of viral spots featuring Isaiah Mustafa who promoted Old Spice shower gel scooped a plethora of industry awards (including the Grand Prix for film at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival) last year and helped the 7-decade old brand double the sales. The ‘The Man Your Man Could Smell Like’ commercials as well as the answer videos on YouTube were extremely popular, and when the brand said that Isaiah had left the campaign, at heart people believed that the Old Spice Guy would be back. And he has done it. Old Spice and Wieden+Kennedy Portland, the agency behind the campaign, announced the return of the much-loved Guy, who will be featured in new adverts to air the day after the Super Bowl.