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Shelf Life: Dove calls on all South African ‘real’ women

Louise Marsland (@Louise_Marsland)’s weekly pick of recent product, packaging and design launches: Dove calls on all South African ‘real’ women; Philips unveils a portable shockproof speaker; Liqui-Fruit takes to the roads and social media; and Jockey takes to the streets in Botswana.

Shelf Life: Dove mirrors positive reinforcement for women

Louise Marsland (@Louise_Marsland)’s pick of new product, packaging and design launches this week: caring for moms and tots — Mommy Care launches in South; Africa; Pyrotec has the on-pack label market zipped up; Dove mirrors positive reinforcement for women; and Hungry Lion hunts with Moving Tactics.

Cannes Lions 2014: SA gets three Promo & Activation Lions bronzes

The International Festival of Creativity, Cannes Lions, has held the first of its four awards nights, announcing this year’s winners in the Creative Effectiveness, Direct, Promo & Activation and PR categories. Two bronzes went to FCB South Africa (Johannesburg) for Coca-Cola and the third bronze to TBWA Hunt Lascaris for Tiger Brands.

Green Sky Thinking: Movement marketing

by Colwyn Elder (@colwynelder) Creating a consumer movement, as opposed to an ad campaign, is not new to the world of marketing but has certainly gained momentum over the past decade. The most obvious reason for this is the growth of social media, but I believe there is more to it than this.

The word ‘campaign’ describes an operation intended to achieve a particular objective. In our industry, this usually means trying to convince a group of people to choose your brand over another. It’s planned, targeted and, most often, involves an element of persuasion.

A ‘movement’ is more organic, albeit equally premeditated. Movements tend to take on a life of their own, and people join a brand movement because of like-mindedness and shared personal values. In other words, you stand for something and people choose to be a part of it; they’re buying into what the brand represents and not just buying the brand.

Ad of the Week with Oresti Patricios – Ummm… me, beautiful?

The fashion industry has long been criticised for creating a false set of standards for beauty. Then again, in its defence, one only has to look at ancient statues and paintings – Greece’s Athena, Rome’s Venus – to realise that the appreciation of human beauty is something that is inherent in human nature. Nonetheless, the fashion industry stands accused of creating standards that the vast majority of women are unable to attain; using graphics software to soften every flaw, and even improve physical aspects such as lifted cheekbones, narrowed waistlines and plumped-up lips.

Psychologists say that this has caused many women to have a self-critical outlook on themselves, resulting in a loss of self-confidence and poor self-esteem.

In 2004, after market research indicated that only 4% of women consider themselves beautiful, Dove launched its Campaign for Real Beauty, originally produced by Ogilvy & Mather Brazil. It started off as a billboard campaign that featured ‘regular’ women photographed by Annie Liebowitz: the public were invited to vote on whether a particular model was “fat or fab” or “wrinkled or wonderful”… the votes being updated in real-time and displayed on the billboards.

Unilever, the owner of Dove, also published a study into women’s sense of self and identity. The study was aimed at creating “a new definition of beauty [which] will free women from self-doubt and encourage them to embrace their real beauty.”

The marketing long con — knowing isn’t half the battle

by Taazima Kala-Essack. I’m willing to bet many would agree: knowing is not even close to half the battle. There is much, much more to it than that.

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