Dove, Dove Men+Care and Lipton each ran their own marketing on their own budgets, so the creator work stayed one-off posts rather than anything joined up.
Somebody asserted the problem rather than a document recording it. Who said it, and whether they had a stake, is named below.
How we know
Dove Men's own demand creation lead says the work helped the brand "move from one-off creator posts to an interconnected ecosystem". Unilever's spend with the agency grew 1,048 percent in a year, inside an 80 percent rise from existing clients overall.
| Who says so | Erin Goldson, Dove Men's own demand creation lead, in Adweek. The Drum's year in review separately covers Unilever's wider pivot to influencer marketing. Read it |
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| A second source | The Drum's year-in-review piece independently covers Unilever's broader influencer-marketing pivot across agencies, backing up the scale-up context without relying on Billion Dollar Boy's own site. |
| How the agency was picked | Never researched |
| How that happened | Not researched |
| Recorded as | Unilever (Dove / Dove Men+Care / Lipton) |
Every other case where it had to run all year, not once →
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