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ALTOIDS: the CURIOUSLY STRONG case study
04.24.12
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- over 300% growth in the first five years
- sold for $US 1 Billion in 2005
- still the category leader
- a decade of winning top industry awards
ALTOIDS: CURIOUSLY STRONG SUCCESS
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A BRAND POISED TO SUCCEED
Unique product + unique place & time = unique niche
Was gaining traction with “thought leaders”
Gaining buzz and badge value
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We didn’t think ourselves stupid
We didn’t apply a lot of group-think
We didn’t ignore our gut instincts
We didn’t fear experimentation
SO WHAT DID WE DO? first, what we DIDN’T do:
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What we did: We pulled the truth right off the tin.
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What we did: We pulled the truth right off the tin.
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We made “CURIOUSLY STRONG” our strategy, our mantra, our mission statement.
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WE USED LIMITATIONS TO OUR ADVANTAGE
We had no money, but that forced discipline
We could only afford limited media, but that forced simplicity and smarts
We had few resources, but that kept chefs out of the kitchen
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Nobody at Leo Burnett wanted to work on it.It was an odd little breath mint not many people had heard of.The budget was tiny. There would be no television shoot.
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We worked with some very sophisticated marketers at Kraft. But we tenaciously maintained the courage to be stupid.
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Art director Mark Faulkner and writer Steffan Postaer were just screwing around and they figured it out.
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NICE ALTOIDS HAD A NICE RESPONSE
People immediately began stealing the outdoor
It became a gay icon. huh?
By popular demand, more posters were created
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HEADLINES WERE WRITTEN TO GIVE VOICEHow do you start a conversation? You dialogue, you provoke!The ugly comedian / hot girlfriend theory of humor. The Archetype: Curiously Strong, British, irreverent. An explorer.
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WE BEGAN TO WRITE THE UNWRITTEN RULES:
1) Is it Curious, is it Strong.2) Affect OR Effect 3) “And now for something completely different” 4) Something old, something new, something borrowed... 5) We are An Equal Opportunity Offender6) Extending: Curiously Strong and ____________ 7) And occasionally, Curiously Wrong
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“PEOPLE SHOULD ALWAYS KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT,BUT NEVER EXPECT WHAT THEY SEE.”
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RULE ONE: IS IT CURIOUSLY STRONG?
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RULE TWO: AFFECT VS. EFFECT
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RULE THREE: “AND NOW, FOR SOMETHING
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT”
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RULE FOUR: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED...
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RULE FIVE: WE ARE AN “EQUAL OPPORTUNITY OFFENDER”
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BUT SOMETIMES, EVEN WE GO TOO FAR(a brief side trip to the island of lost toys...)
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THEN, KRAFT INTRODUCED LINE EXTENSIONS
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“IT’S OVER” THEY SAID.BUT IT FORCED A NEW RULE:
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RULE SIX: WINTERGREEN ALTOIDS =CURIOUSLY STRONG & COLD
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RULE SIX: CINNAMON ALTOIDS =CURIOUSLY STRONG & HOT
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WE REALIZED WE HAD TO push into other media
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THEN, KRAFT INTRODUCED A NON-MINT
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BUT WE WENT BACK TO THE RULES.
RULE SIX: ALTOIDS SOURS =CURIOUSLY STRONG & UHH... FRUITY
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BUT SUCH A TRANSFORMATIONWARRANTS AN INTRODUCTION
- or - “How I learned to love focus groups.”
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“I’m not sure if I want my Altoids to change.”
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The proposition: Your Altoids are changing. It’s a little surprising, but exciting, too.
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“Altoids needed to leverage the equity of “curious strength,” but differentiate it slightly for their new “Sours” product. To create a new category and new usage occasions for the brand, Altoids targeted trend-defining hipsters who tend to generate buzz about new products and ideas.”
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Offline: fringe print, hipster out-of-home, on-premise, highly targeted spot cable, cinema.
Online: destination site, pass-along.
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Results: 500,000+ unique visitors to gonesour.com within first four weeks.
Target’s #3 font-end SKU within first four weeks.
One of the highest-velocity launches in Kraft history.
Armloads of shiny advertising trophies.
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The Creative Brief.
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We want _____ to _____ because_____.
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CREATIVE BRIEF
What do we want the advertising to do?
Who are we talking to, and what insights do we have about them?
How do we want them to describe this brand—
how would they talk about its essence and personality?
What is the single most important thing we want them to take out of this advertising?
How can we make this believable?
Is there anything else worth thinking about that might help us get to great creative?
Are there any executional mandatories?
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CREATIVE BRIEF
What do we want the advertising to do?
Who are we talking to, and what insights do we have about them?
How do we want them to describe this brand—
how would they talk about its essence and personality?
What is the single most important thing we want them to take out of this advertising?
How can we make this believable?
Is there anything else worth thinking about that might help us get to great creative?
Are there any executional mandatories?
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CREATIVE BRIEF
What do we want the advertising to do?
Who are we talking to, and what insights do we have about them?
How do we want them to describe this brand—
how would they talk about its essence and personality?
What is the single most important thing we want them to take out of this advertising?
How can we make this believable?
Is there anything else worth thinking about that might help us get to great creative?
Are there any executional mandatories?
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Homework: write the Creative Brief.