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Product: Hanes underwear
                                                                                                                                                                           Target Audience: YSG’s both male and female.

                                                                                                                                                                           Main Message: The comfort of Hanes underwear                                          CREATIVE
                                                           Confident Cayla                                                 You’ve asked us                                 gives you confidence.

                                                           Cayla is very particular when it comes                          to target YSGs,                                 Reason to Believe: Hanes has a 118 year reputation
                                                           to purchasing a brand. She wants                                but after our                                   of being incredibly comfortable.

                                                           brands that empower women and                                   research we call                                Insight: Many of the big players in the underwear                                                 BRIEF &
                                                           inspires them to be the best version                            this group BSDs,                                industry are attempting to be sexy, using

                                                           of themselves. She does most of her                             BS Detectors,                                   unrealistically beautiful people, all the while Hanes
                                                           shopping online, but will also purchase                         a segment of                                    has remained focus on comfort.
                                                                                                                                                                           Big Idea: To launch a campaign against the over-
                                                           underwear from department stores                                stylish Gen Z                                   sexualized underwear ads of the competition, like  SUMMARY
                                                           when she goes to the mall.                                      and Millenials
                                                                                                                           who’ve grown up                                 #mycalvins and Calvin Klein’s seemingly perfect

                                                                                                                           being inundated                                 models.
                                                                                                                           with more                                       Execution: #OurHanes

                                                                                                                           advertising than
                                                                                                                           any generation
                                                           Relaxed Ryan                                                    before them, and                               The #OurHanes campaign pokes fun at the other major players in the underwear industry by

                                                           Ryan doesn’t care much about                                    because of this                                focusing on the famous #mycalvins campaign which features scantily clad models and celebrities.
                                                           the brands he wears. He is more                                 can immediately                                #ourhanes is a satirical critique of the unrealistic beauty standards these companies push with their

                                                           concerned about the comfort that the                            sense which                                    advertising. This critique, while satirical, has real benefits to Hanes underwear and its place in the
                                                           product provides him. He shops at                               brands are lying                               market. By positioning Hanes as body positive, Hanes’s competitors will become “body negative” in
                                                           mass retailers and buys what he sees                            to them and which                              the eyes of consumers. Not only this, but the ads also seamlessly push forward the idea of comfort

                                                           first. Often his mom ends up buying                             are being real.                                coming from confidence. Hanes not only gives you incredibly comfortable underwear, but it can give
                                                           underwear for him and he has little say                                                                        you the confidence to be yourself, not some perfect model walking a runway. Hanes is and always

                                                           in what brands she buys,                                                                                       has been about comfort, therefore the #ourhanes campaign will use the body positive movement to
                                                           but he it doesn’t bother him.                                           YSGs /                                 finally establish the ever sought after emotional connection with YSG’s all underwear companies are
                                                                                                                                                                          looking for, and it will do so without having to reposition the brand at all.
                                                                                                         The BS Detectors

     TARGET AUDIENCE
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