By: Justine Fowler Liz Bobro & Lindsay Webb

Campaign for REAL Beauty  In 2004 DOVE* launched the very successful, “Campaign for Real Beauty”  It featured REAL woman, not models, to advertise the Dove Firming Cream  The focus was on real, natural beauty. Not the artificial, unrealistically thin and unhealthy images programmed into the minds of people by the media.

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“This study uncovers that beauty is never going away and has enormous power. Beauty should not be reduced to a political or cultural problem but understood as a basic human pleasure.” – Dr. Nancy Etcoff, Harvard University

The Real Truth About Beauty: A Global Report On September 24 th 2004 DOVE released a ground breaking new study that discussed the effects of society that narrowly define beauty as the images you see in entertainment, media, the fashion industry and the unbelievable impact on woman. 4,100 women aged were participants in this study.

The Real Truth About Beauty: A Global Report The study was conducted in 13 countries world wide including: Argentina, Brazil Canada France Italy Japan Netherlands Portugal United Kingdom United States Spain* Australia* New Zealand*

The Real Truth About Beauty: A Global Report Why the study was commissioned? Dove, as a global beauty brand and responsible marketer, wanted to investigate, understand and report a worldwide perspective about: 1) Women’s definition of beauty. 2) Women’s view about social issues regarding mass media and pop culture’s impact on beauty.

The Truth (statistics) Only 2% of woman describe themselves as beautiful. 63% strongly agree that society expects women to enhance their physical attractiveness. 45% of women feel women who are more beautiful have greater opportunities in life. 68% of women strongly agree that "the media and advertising set an unrealistic standard of beauty that most woman cannot ever achieve." 76% of woman wish female beauty was portrayed in the media as being made up of more than just physical attractiveness 74% went on to say that they wish the media did a better job of portraying women of diverse physical attractiveness, including age, shape and size.

Campaign for Real Beauty The Campaign for real beauty has been a huge success both in its reach and impact The six woman used in the US ads have been featured in national television spots, magazine ads, print ads and on billboards in major urban markets in North America (Dove is also running similar campaigns throughout the world). They have even been featured in segments of ‘Oprah’, ‘The Today Show’, ‘The View’, and even ‘CNN’

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The Campaign in Canada In November 2005, casting agents representing DOVE Canada were looking for a new group to participate in Print and TV ads. The new ad was to focus on body image. The new phase to doves campaign was kicked off during Superbowl XL which featured canadian girls aged 5-14 DOVE paid 2.4 million dollars for 30 seconds of airtime

TRUE COLORS

Making a Difference Since the beginning of the campaign many ads, and commercials have been produced world wide!

Evolution

Be Proud of your imperfections!

Amy

Beauty Pressure

Unilever hypocritical?

Dove & Axe Controversy Both of these brands are owned by a company named Unilever. The controversy between these brand names are that they represent something so opposite. Dove has its ‘Real Beauty Campaign and Axe has thier commercials with women in their bikinis groping men because of their irresistible body spray.

Dove and Axe Controversy Unilever defends themselves by saying that Dove and Axe are only two of the 400+ products that households use every day. They are trying to appeal to all audiences, men and women. General manager and vice president Geoff Craig of Unilever was quoted saying; "I think it is inherently and absolutely clear that the Axe campaign is all around poking fun,". "It's a spoof of the mating game, and people view it exactly as such, quite frankly." We feel this quote is a harsh assumption to make, assuming all men have this infinite need to be adored by women and if they have something else to be focused on, other than women, something may be ‘wrong’ with them.

Dove vs. Axe

Dove and Axe Controversy In order for something like this to end we need to stop it at the source, and that is really not as easy as it seems, whether we like it or not sex does sell… That being said, The Real Beauty Campaign did do an excellent job in bringing awareness to self- esteem issues and raised a lot of money for their fund.

Only Two Percent of Woman Describe Themselves as Beautiful: New Global Study Uncovers Desire for Broader Definition of Beautyhttp:// Campaign for real beauty Dove Self-Esteem Fund