As the company responsible for inventing and marketing bleach, Clorox found itself facing the brunt of environmental campaigners' anger. For its new product, Green Works Natural Cleaner, to be successful, it would have to convince those same campaigners of its environmental credentials.
Green Works Natural Cleaner is 99% plant based giving Clorox the idea to reverse out a mural of plants and trees. It called on the services of Paul ‘Moose’ Curtis, a pioneer of the art form known as clean tagging, to design a mural. The 140 foot wall of San Francisco’s Broadway Tunnel, chosen because it is a high-traffic, dirty location, became Curtis’ canvas.
Award-winning documentary maker Doug Pray was commissioned to shoot a short film around the creation of the mural. Initially screened on YouTube to gain maximum exposure, a dedicated website was set up to show the documentary and give the public a behind the scenes look at the campaign.
In its first week, the documentary became YouTube’s number 1 featured video, receiving over 500,000 views. Overall, the campaign generated a media value of $2.1 Million and resulted in 7.5 Million media impressions, turning a negative perception of Clorox into a positive one. Within 6 months, Green Works had become the number 1 selling product in the natural cleaning category.
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