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Week 4
Week 4
campaigns? What did they design to reach the six types of psychological profiles of
The brand did an online survey in which they asked 12.000 males from 15 to 50 y/o all
around the world. They were asked personal and embarrassing question, mostly
directly related to girls and sex. They found out the sexual fantasy of the subjects and
Then they accompanied 100 of them to a bar to secretly see how they pick-up girls in
order to segmentate. As a result they got 6 psychological profiles of the male animal.
After that they decided which ones of them were their target audience. It turned out
to be the novices as the brand could persuade them that Axe would help them to have
As a result they created a bunch of 30-sencond TV ads in which there always were a lot
of women half naked who desire badly the guy who is wearing Axe.
Do Homoerotic ads work for women? Do they work for men? Why?
They do work for men even though they do not like to admit it. “Men rationalize
ogling these ads by telling themselves they are just looking to a isolated part”. It was
discovered that when men are shown provocative photos of other men, the part of the
brain that lies was lighten up, which meant they were attracted but they were trying to
convince themselves they were not. They are not trying to impress women, they try to
impress men.
Women usually want to be the main character of a man´s fantasy, hence why usually
the message of these homoerotic ads is that they can be as desired by men as the
models in the ad. So when he ad shows a bunch of models, it is for females to know it
Can perfume free female sexual inhibitions? How did Calvin Klein test their perfume
Yes it can. Calvin Klein sent the manufacturer a series of sexually themed videos to
show what kind of feeling they wanted to evoke. After that they run a focus group
meeting to see if what they thought of the perfume was the same as the bran
They carried out another research around the question “Where does it take you
emotionally?” But before that, they had to know the dark places women would think
about. SO they led women through a maze of corridors into dark rooms (each one with
a different variation of the perfume). In each room they had to say what where they
feeling and thinking. Then they were shown the same series of videos that they had
sent to the perfume manufactures to see what they were being evoked.
Then they hired Scent Analysis to conduct a sophisticated test to find out which
Later they hired a semiotician to help them come up with a word that would capture
the scent and feelings of the perfume. Finalizing the process of the creation of
Euphoria perfume.