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Television is a mass medium, and advertisers have a responsibility to ensure that their work is appropriate for all audiences to whom it is shown. We do not need to see live demonstrations of these products in our living rooms.
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Instead, it is done in the style of an animated musical and features a lesser-mentioned bodily feature. Venus surveyed 250 US women in 2021 and found that a majority of them would prefer to use anatomical terms like "pubic" but don't actually do so — most likely because it's deemed inappropriate or "weird" by society. Based on my own online research and an informal survey of people in my circle, this ad for Venus seems to be divisive even among women in the target audience. Worse, this ad has incensed Gillette buyers of both sexes who swear they’ll stop buying the brand altogether.
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The Venus Skin Smoothing Exfoliant is considered one of the best exfoliators for bikini area care. Adweek is the leading source of news and insight serving the brand marketing ecosystem. The 1-minute spot sees our cartoon hairoine perched on a bathtub soap dish, belting out the woes of life as the body’s most maligned cuticle. If creatives have one job left, it is to find clever and imaginative ways to sell these kinds of products while being polite and respectful guests in people’s homes.
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The company offers products aiming to prep, protect and maintain pubic hair and skin. Venus acknowledges not just any razor will do for shaving where your skin is most sensitive -- which is why its developed its Venus razor for pubic hair and skin with its patented irritation defense bar, offering a smooth shave where blades barely touch skin. The charming commercial comes as beauty and hygiene brands, in particular, are increasingly using clever marketing to attack the taboos inherent in their products, as Fast Company points out. For example, Thinx, the “period-proof” panty company, caused a stir with a number of ad campaigns during the past five years, such as one depicting fruit that some would say is reminiscent of certain parts of the female anatomy. Say hello to smooth and soft skin with a range of pubic hair care products from Venus.
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DTC e-commerce allows CPG brands like P&G direct relationships with consumers, and can yield first-party data that is becoming increasingly important to marketers like P&G. The Gillette Venus #SayPubic campaign follows similar efforts by DTC razor brand Billie. The female-focused brand launched its crowd-sourced "Project Body Hair" campaign in 2018, which it followed with a video campaign the next summer. P&G announced an acquisition of Billie in 2020 but called off the deal in January 2021 after the Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust complaint. With this campaign, the brand can tap into the same type of conversations that Billie spurred several years ago — without having to acquire the company.
While 84% of U.S. women remove at least some of their pubic hair, 87% of them are dissatisfied with the results, per a 2019 survey by P&G. Venus’ Pubic Hair & Skin razor is specifically designed to help protect pubic skin from shave irritation, razor burn, and ingrown hairs. Its patented Irritation Defense Bar and optimally spaced blades allow the blades to cut hair while barely touching the skin. Also the razor refills come equipped with a precision trimmer on the back of the blades to navigate tricky areas.
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More people, women especially, are feeling empowered to do what feels right for them rather than feeling like they have to follow the "norm" — and it's about time. Venus’ 2-in-1 Cleanser + Shave Gel can be used during your shave to provide a protective layer of glide to help prevent shaving irritation, or daily as a gentle cleanser. To further help destigmatize the term, Venus launched a viral animated video dubbed “The Pube Song,” as part of the brand’s 2021 “#SayPubic” campaign, which launched alongside the Venus for Pubic Hair & Skin Collection. In 2019, sex toy company Dame filed suit against New York City subways for pulling out (no pun intended) of a deal to run their risqué posters in trains — ads that read, simply, “Toys, for sex” alongside an image of one of their devices.
The Venus for Pubic Hair & Skin Gentle Trimmer is designed to complete the lineup of tools to offer all key methods women use to care for pubic hair and skin. "The Pube Song" wants to normalize doing whatever you want with your pubic hair. "Why the mass hysteria about the pubic area?" a chorus of pubic hairs sing.
Pubic Hair & Skin Smoothing Exfoliant
It’s a contradictory turn for an industry that for the past century has urged women to remove or obscure all hair that wasn’t sitting neatly atop their head. “It seems like all the ads are showing perfect skin and shiny hair, but what about this other world inside your underwear? A new ad by Gillette Venus which features a singing, dancing curly strand is encouraging women to take pride in their pubis — whether shaved or not. You may remember how rigorously I defended the “trimming bushes” ad for Schick’s Hydro Silk TrimStyle razor — also a product for women who shave down there. That ad too drew plenty of criticism, but to the best of my knowledge, it only aired after prime-time viewing hours or during shows intended for mature audiences. In case you missed it, the ad literally shows a closeup of a woman’s crotch while talking about shaving pubic hair.
"There's nothing diabolical about this little follicle. So take care of us, your pubic hair, if you trim or you shave or you're bare down there. Whichever way's your way, it's all OK." The product and campaign also seek to boost Gillette Venus' and P&G's larger DTC efforts. Venus offers a razor subscription model utilized by Billie and Dollar Shave Club, and the new Pubic Hair & Skin Starter Kit is already sold-out online, as of press time.
Blade refills specifically designed to help protect pubic skin from shave irritation. Procter & Gamble’s Gillette Venus rolled out this piece to further de-stigmatize the care of pubic hair. From Grey NY, the spot debuts the song “It’s Time to Care (For Your Public Hair)” featuring female rapper Princess Nokia. When it comes to women’s health and sexual wellness, it’s no surprise that certain terminology is still seen as taboo or censored.
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