Title | BREAST CREAM |
Brand | NEW ZEALAND BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION |
Product / Service | BREAST CANCER AWARENESS |
Category | D07. Charities, Public Health, Safety & Awareness Messages |
Entrant | COLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND |
Entrant Company | COLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND |
Advertising Agency | COLENSO BBDO Auckland, NEW ZEALAND |
Name | Company | Position |
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Nick Worthington | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Creative Chairman |
Mike Davison | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Head of Art |
Kristal Knight | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Senior Art Director |
Rachael Macklin | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Copywriter |
Hannah Habgood | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Copywriter |
Sarah Williams | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Group Business Director |
Serena Fountain-Jones | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Senior Producer / Project Manager |
Neville Doyle | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Planning Director - Digital and Social |
Sarah Oberman | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Planner |
Paul Gunn | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Head Of Activation/PR |
Reks Kok | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Retoucher |
Jodi Davis | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Mac Operator |
Marco Siraky | Colenso BBDO/Proximity New Zealand | Senior Editor |
Evangelia Henderson | New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation | Chief Executive |
Alex Gage-Brown | Skinfood | Managing Director |
Tim White | IDC | Photographer |
Michele Richards | IDC | Photographer's Producer |
Andrew Timms | Beryl | Online Editor |
Pete Ritchie | Blockhead | Grade |
Breast Cream is a revolutionary new way to help women fight breast cancer. By creating a beauty product, we’ve activated an audience that would normally switch off to a traditional breast cancer campaign. It gives women a tangible way to take action and start checking their breasts. It overcomes the barriers women have to self-checking, making it as comfortable and familiar as applying a moisturiser. The bright pink tube is designed to be a visible reminder to check yourself regularly, sitting next to your toothbrush and deodorant on your bathroom shelf. And the leaflet inside the box contains comprehensive information on the signs and symptoms to look for. Breast Cream puts our message directly in women’s hands. Simply by using it, they are performing the life-saving behaviour the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation advocates.
Instead of another ad campaign, we created Breast Cream - a moisturiser that makes checking your breasts a part of your regular beauty routine. The simple act of applying it helps you look and feel for any lumps or changes that could be signs of cancer. And it’s as easy and familiar as using a moisturiser. We launched Breast Cream in October 2014 during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, putting the product on the shelf in 80% of New Zealand’s leading grocery retailers. We supported the launch with PR and targeted influential beauty bloggers, along with promoting the product through NZBCF’s substantial owned online assets. A print campaign helped us reach a broader audience and gain international exposure. This is the beginning of a long-term behaviour change project. The partnerships we’ve developed give this idea the scale and means to expand internationally – partnering with breast cancer charities around the world.
The target audience is all women over the age of 20, with a focus on 20-40 year olds, who fall outside of the mammogram screening programme. They’re an audience who are notoriously difficult to engage with breast cancer awareness messages, with an aversion to scaremongering and a tendency to think “it won’t happen to me.” Our brief was to find a way to engage these women and help them overcome the barriers to checking their breasts regularly.
Of those who have used or are aware of Breast Cream: • 45% now check their breasts more regularly. • 32% have made Breast Cream part of their beauty routine, and • 31% said Breast Cream got them talking more about breast awareness. We secured distribution in 80% of NZ’s four biggest grocery retailers. The first production run has sold out, with $2 from every purchase going to the NZBCF. Breast Cream has been promoted and reviewed extensively by beauty bloggers and everyday users on beauty forums, scoring an average product rating of 4.9/5. This has helped us reach an extended audience of over 2.5 million in New Zealand and around the world. Breast Cream has also attracted international attention – distributors and Breast Cancer charities in North America, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Asia have expressed interest in bringing Breast Cream to their markets. So we have the potential to change behaviour and save lives across the globe.