Celebrate Mother's Day

British retailer Debenhams this year ran a Mother’s Day promotion, calling on viewers to make their mums feel special on Mother’s Day, celebrated on April 3 in the UK. A television commercial presents children and adults calling out to their mothers in their time of need. The ad finishes with the line, “Make whats-her-name feel special this Mother’s Day”, and takes viewers to a Feel Special microsite where they can send the film as a personalised movie e-card. Debenhams donated 5% of the price of online orders to the charity Breast Cancer Campaign when purchases were placed via the e-card page.




Click on the image below to play the Mothers Day video in YouTube (HD)

Credits

The Debenhams Mothers Day campaign was developed at JWT, London, by executive creative director Russell Ramsey, creative director Nicholla Longley, art director Simon Horton, copywriter Hannah Ford, agency producer Roy Swansborough, account director Alex Clarke. Media was handled at Carat.
Filming was shot by director Joanna Bailey via The Bare Film Company. Editors were Melanie Oliver and Colin Hannan. Sound was designed by James Forbear.

Manup .. don't "Violence against women"

JDate Israel|Someone to zip you up

JDates's stroke of genius was to team up with a popular women's fashion chain, and promote their services in a fun, useful way that afforded customers a level of discretion in a potentially sensitive area.

Valentine's days are the perfect time of year for dating sites to advertise for subscribers to their services.  In Israel, the Jewish equivalent of Valentine's day (called "Tu B'av") occurs in July, which coincides with the end of season sales period for retailers.

JDate, a local dating agency decided to take advantage of the fact that the sales period means increased traffic in stores, and so teamed up with clothing chain Mango in an inventive in-store promotion partnership.
Like all the best ideas, JDate's idea was simple: To provide assistance in the one area that Israeli women still needed help - zipping up the backs of their dresses. JDate provided this assistance with the use of specially branded tags which acted as a coupon for a free one month subscription to the dating site. The tags helped single women zip up the clothes they tried on - meaning that JDate could help single women find a date, and an outfit. The tags were removable, in case customers decided they already had the perfect outfit.

The activity ran for the two weeks immediately prior to Tu B'av, and more than 300,000 Mango customers were exposed to the campaign nationally. 2,000 tags were taken by customers and JDate saw traffic for this period increase by 13%, with new subscriptions increasing by 15% - a new high for the summer period.

The activity was also covered heavily in fashion magazines, blogs and social media networks.

BRAND:JDate

CATEGORY:Internet

REGION:Israel

DATE:July - July 2010

AGENCY:McCann Erickson

MEDIA CHANNEL:Out-of-Home,PR,Retail/POS

Beitech: Anorexic Funeral

“15% of woman who suffer from anorexia will die this year. 
For donations: www.beitech-ed.org”

Beitech is a non profit organization for woman with eating disorders.

Advertising Agency: Mccann Erickson, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Vice President Creative Directors: Eldad Wienberger, Tal Raviv
Creative Director: Igal Hazan
Art Director: Ifat Shleziger
Copywriter: Asaf Zelicovitch
VP Accounts: Ifat Wieder-Arad
Account Director: Chen Biran

Prajwala|A prostitute only becomes one when you hire her.

You don't need a network ad agency to tell a straight forward messages. Small shops for some reason are doing better.

This ad campaign done for a NGO called Prajwala, which deals with human-trafficking/prostitution. They spread awareness and also provide care for rescued girls. We had kept the copy in a clean font and background, but the client wanted it to be more visually appealing. They were put up in railway stations/truck stops/taxi stops.

Advertising Agency: Bushtail, Bangalore, India
Creative Director: Jeevan Sebastian
Art Director: Deepak P.
Copywriter: Shikha Gupta
Published: May 2010

Job benefits include STDs, cancer, trauma, humiliation, and multiple abortions. Please apply in person.
A prostitute only becomes one when you hire her.

Women candidates between the age of 6 to 57 can apply in person.

A prostitute only becomes one when you hire her.

Candidates willing to be abused, raped and locked up, may apply in person.

A prostitute only becomes one when you hire her. 

Gutsy TV spot| marketing for woman!

Check out these two videos for Quattro for Women, with the bikini area trimmer. The first one is pretty much how you'd think they would introduce the new product. I

t's about 90 seconds long so I am guessing they trimmed it down for a TV spot are using the longer form on their website. The second....well, it's not what I would have expected.




One is incredibly safe...the other, not so much. But, which one do you think will actually sell more razors?


'Mow the Lawn' 
Created by JWT New York to build awareness and drive trial for the new Wilkinson Sword Quattro for Women Bikini







Gillette Survey: How Do You Like It Shaved?







Axe girls cleaning the balls







Extreme. Entertaining. Roguishly symbolic, and its Axe.

Pampers|Hello Baby - iPad App

— This has got to be one of the smartest iPad Apps out there.

The app, called Hello Baby, made its debut during Apple's launch of the tablet computer this month. It is Pampers' first mobile device application; the brand never launched an iPhone app. The move is also part of parent company Procter & Gamble's push to position its brands at the forefront of new and emerging technologies, especially as the packaged-goods titan shuffles more marketing dollars into digital, mobile and social media.

The app, available for free on iTunes, is essentially a pregnancy calendar, where users can track weekly progress from weeks four to 40 by entering the baby's due date. (The calendar draws on baby and parenting content taken from Pampers' "Village" online community site, said Susan Liao, a digital producer at StrawberryFrog, the agency that worked on the app.) Expecting moms can also hold the iPad in front of their tummies to view a typical, life-sized representation of the baby. Common comparisons include a baby that is the size of an acorn, pear and other "well-known fruits and vegetables," said Pampers North American marketing director Patrick Kraus.

Mobile baby apps like TheBump.com's Baby 411, for the iPhone, already exist, but Hello Baby, so far, is the only one developed exclusively for the iPad, he said. The app takes advantage of the portable device's high-resolution, multitouch screen to bring the prenatal development process to life.

P&G, which spent $53 million advertising Pampers last year, sans online, per Nielsen, said Hello Baby's investment is small, but it's looking to take findings from this "experiment" and leverage it online, Kraus said.     

Africa teenager girls will not check any more… Always | Check check

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Lebanon
Chief Creative Officer: Farid Chehab
Executive Creative Director: Bechara Mouzannar
Creative Director: Danielle Rizkallah
Copywriter: Rana Khoury, Paul Osayande
Agency Producer: Rayanne Smayra
Planner: Zeina Joujou
Account Supervisor: Cynthia Abdelkarim, Shayna Suidan
Production Company: GOLDEN PLANES Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA
Director: Sven Harding
Producer: Herman Le Roux
Editor: Postoffice Lebanon
Sound Design/Arrangement: Wounded Buffalo Johannesburg
Music: Artist/Title: Wounded Buffalo Johannesburg
Art Director: Caroline Farra, Roula Asmar
Lighting: Eric Maddison
Post Production: Postoffice Lebanon

Mor Cati (Purple Roof): Domestic violence made visible on the streets

http://www.morcati.org.tr/

Advertising Agency: TBWA\Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Executive Creative Director: Ilkay GPinar
Creative Director: Erdem Koksal
Art Director: Asligul Akin
Copywriter: Erdem Koksal
Account Director: Guler Balta
Account Supervisor: Seda Seker
Advertiser’s Supervisor: Ozgur Can Sunata
Published/Released: April 2010

Hymen gel|A lubricant for women above 40

Hymen gel, it is a vaginal tightening gel for women above 40.


Well, 40 can be an intriguingly challenging age for many a women, who desperately try to maintain the bygone glory. Sex plays an important role in any married relationship, if not a pivotal one.

CREDITS
Advertising Agency: TCC, India
Creative Director / Copywriter: Arvind Ramalingam
Art Director: Krishnamurthy Iyyappan
Account Management: Savvy Durham

Whisper:::Period drama

‘That time of the month’ is one of its politer descriptions, but the onset of a woman’s period has neverbeen something for them to get excited about. Attempting to reverse this trend, Singapore-based hygiene brand, Whisper,

decided to try and improve women’s perception of their own menstrual cycle and in doing so build brand affinity.

Research conducted by global communications company, MS&L Singapore showed that only 22% of women were able to correctly identify the various stages of their own menstrual cycle. Not only was there a lack of understanding about the biological goings-on, a woman’s period was also seen as something of a taboo subject in Singapore.

To increase awareness, Whisper built a dedicated website, ‘Happy It’s Here’, that identified the various stages of the menstrual cycle and provides helpful tips and ideas of activities and exercises, such as kickboxing, that women can perform to help relieve their pent-up frustration. Visitors to the site are directed to aFacebook group where they can discuss why they are happy about the onset of their period as well as offer a sympathetic shoulder and encouragement to others.

The group currently has over 4074 members and is growing daily. Aiming to improve women’s perception of their periods is an ambitious campaign objective but if Whisper can pull it off, the public perception of its own brand will improve dramatically.

The Whisper “happy it’s here!” initiative aims to help young women embrace their womanhood by sharing the many positive secrets of the menstrual cycle and encouraging open conversations around it within a community of like-minded women.

Whisper is dedicated to creating happier periods for women. As the first to bring new and innovative feminine care products such as Ultrathin products and pads with wings, Whisper continues to play an integral part in the lives of women in Singapore and around the world.

Website:http://www.happyitshere.com.sg

Images above are from Happy it's here media and blogger reception

BRAND: Whisper

BRAND OWNER: P&G

CATEGORY: Pharmaceuticals/ Healthcare

REGION: Singapore

DATE: Aug 2009

AGENCY: Leo BurnetO

THER AGENCIES: ARC Singapore

MEDIA OWNER: Facebook

MEDIA CHANNEL

Tampon “drop” stunt

Libresse Tampons shower Dutch beaches in little pink parachutes

Brand: Libresse Tampons

Geography: Holland , June 2009

Objective: to remind all females on the beach that their best bikini friend is the good old fashioned tampon

Insight: The idea came from recent research that showed only one in seven women actually go to the beach when aunt Flo is visiting. Libresse wanted to remind girls of the practical side effects of tampon wearing, like the ability to take a swim. Dear Libresse, that's not actually why we avoid the beach during the moon-phase, but I'll give you ten points for effort

Action: Over 3,000 little pink parachutes with "emergency supplies" were air dropped down on the beaches, and women scrambled to get their cute free samples

Results: all targets were reported “Direct Hit”

2009 Happy Mothers’ Day!

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