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Fallon's debut TV campaign for SCA Hygiene Products' Double Velvet emphasises the toilet tissue's softness by depicting life in the brand's factory.
The ads, which continue the endline created by Publicis, 'love your bum', promote the Double Velvet product as being: 'Now even softer.'
In one 30-second TV execution, entitled 'factory', we see how Double Velvet is so soft that it has caused factory employees to adopt peculiar working practices.
Rather than using the stairs, they casually drop from great heights on to stacks of the toilet roll and use the product as a crash barrier when arriving on their bicycles.
The press element continues this theme, with the water in a swimming pool and crash mats in a gym being replaced by rolls of Double Velvet.
Chris Kay, the account director at Fallon, said: 'Rather than using puppies or bears, we felt the best way to sell the product was to talk about a motivating product attribute in an engaging, funny way.'
Ed Edwards and Dave Masterman wrote and art directed the campaign, ...