At the Beauty Inc 2013 Awards Dove’s Real Beauty Sketches won the title of the Ad Campaign of the Year.
DOVE REAL BEAUTY SKETCHES
Dove’s campaign revealed that many women are actually their worst critic. Gil Zamora, a trained FBI forensic artist drew sketches of seven women based on their descriptions and other based on strangers descriptions who spent just a short period of time with them.The video it’s very moving seeing the reactions of the seven women when they see their sketches through the eyes of their mind and the sketches made after the descriptions of strangers which are far more flattering.
A month after its launch in April 2013 the video was a total success with more than 170 million views in 110 different countries and more than four million shares.
“Some people say, ‘What does this have to do with selling soap?’” Gina Boswell, executive vice president of personal care, North America, for Unilever, said earlier this year. “But we have actionable insight. In this case, it was that only 4 percent of adult women think they are beautiful, which is deplorable. We also learned that this is a universal truth.” She continued, “A universal truth is the best basis for any kind of brand campaign, and we were able to unlock that.”
