evolution of brand dove
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Evolution of Brand
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Dove is a product of Unilever
first launched in 1957
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Unilever operated in the food,home and personal care sectors of economy
And its major brands include-Knorr, Surf, Lipton, Omo, Sunsilk, Dove, Blue Band, Lux, Hellmann’s, Becel, and the Heartbrand logo, a visual identifier on ice cream products. Its annual income was $50 billion then.
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Dove-the functional benefits era-First dove soap was called “The Beauty Bar” which was launched in 1957
-Major component of soap consists of cleansing cream
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Dove-the functional benefits era
-became one of the masterbrands of Unilever by 2000.
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Dove:A brand with a point of view
“Young, white, blonde and thin” women were portrayed in advertising and packaging
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Dove:A brand with a point of view
“Campaign for real beauty”-Tick-Box campaign was done which includes plain-looking models were photographed and were displayed on billboards.-The campaign attracted keen public interest, as “outsized” first raced ahead and then fell back.
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“Campaign for real beauty”
-“Change the way society views beauty”Six women were photographed for ads with a cheerful pose in a plain white underwear.-This also got comments that they were setting themselves up to be an ordinary brand
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“Campaign for Real Beauty”
-The next step was controversial by filming their own daughters discussing their self-esteem challenges.-Ads were made with captions like “Hates her freckles”,“Wishes she were blonde” etc-The ad itself was widely admired, but controversy erupted over the fact that it mentioned no product.
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-Stage four of the campaign involved not an advertisement, but a film.-The brand self-esteem workshops for women, and the Toronto office of advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather developed a 112-second film to drive traffic to the workshops.
“Campaign for real beauty”
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“Campaign for real beauty”
-It showed the face of a young woman as cosmetics, hair styling, and Photoshop editing transformed it from plainness to billboard glamour.-In October 2006 the film was posted to YouTube, a popular video-sharing website. Within three months, it had been viewed three million times.
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From brand’s to customer’s point of view-In late 2006 the Dove brand builders in North America announced a contest, titled Real Ads by Real Women, to invite consumers to create their own ads for Dove Cream Oil Body Wash.-Winning commercials would air during a commercial break on the 79th annual Academy Awards broadcast on network television on February 25, 2007.
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The rules included a list of “thought-starters”
-Try the product. Take note of what you feel, smell, see and hear.-Look up “luxury” in the dictionary. What does it mean?-Explore the world around you. What luxuries do you find in your world?
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Media Planning included-The Campaign for Real Beauty-Buying every billboard in Grand Central Station-News programs on celebrities devoting shows to self esteem
Finally,Dove ads became the most downloaded commercials ever on youtube
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Public relations
Unilever’s public relations strategy is a single unit including advertising, media planning, consumer promotions, and customer marketing, in an integrated approach to marketing planning
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Plans include:-Media dissent-Announcing Dove Real Beauty Award-Walk the Talk
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Organizing for brand management
Brand management system…Within a product category the firm often offered multiple brands, each led by a brand manager.
-In effect, each brand operated as a separate business, competing with its siblings as well as the products of other firms
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Brand manager’s responsibilities in relation to the brand
-design of strategy, delivery of profit targets, and power over many of the day-to-day marketing decisions such as advertising and trade promotions that were needed to achieve profitability.
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In 2000, Unilever began to split responsibility for the brand between two groups:-one charged with development of the brand and the other charged with building the brand in specific markets.
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-Brand Development was centralized and global in scope. -Brand Building was decentralized according to the major geographic regions in which Unilever operated.
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Brand Development took responsibility for developing the idea behind a brand, for innovation, and for evolving the idea into the future.-It had responsibility for television advertising strategy.-It was usually located in the region of the world in which the brand was strongest.
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Brand Building was replicated in each of Unilever’s major markets around the world.
Managers of command were charged with bringing the brand to life in their marketplace.
They were accountable for growth, profit, cash flow, and short-term market share.
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Conclusion
-The brand had grown by $1.2 billion.-Parody advertising abounded on websites that let people post and share videos, such as YouTube, Google.
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Created by Harika Ganta,IIITDM Kancheepuram
During an internship by Prof. Sameer Mathur,IIM Lucknow www.IIMInternship.com