Vaseline was turning creator hacks into paid ads and into products, so every claim needed lab proof and each of 450-plus creators needed rights signed.
The problem is documented by somebody with nothing to gain from the agency winning the work.
How we know
Real scientists lab tested viral beauty hacks and the ones that passed became paid advertising and then a product line, Vaseline Originals, off more than 6,000 documented user hack cases.
| Who says so | WPP, LBB, MARKETECH APAC and the Cannes Lions record, which gave the work Grands Prix in Health and Wellness and in Social and Influencer. Read it |
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| How the agency was picked | Grew out of earlier work |
| How that happened | Prior relationship - Ogilvy (WPP) is Vaseline's long-standing creative agency. When Unilever ran a global review of its beauty and wellbeing brand creative accounts and consolidated most of them into WPP, the WPP case-study writeup explicitly notes WPP/Ogilvy was 'continuing its previous work on Vaseline,' i.e. Vaseline was not a new win in that review, it was retained. The 2025 'Vaseline Verified' campaign that spotted the user-generated hacks and built the 'Vaseline Originals' product line was produced by Ogilvy Singapore working with Ogilvy UK and Ogilvy South Africa, which reads as an existing global Ogilvy account team expanding scope rather than a fresh pitch. |
| How long it took | No exact date found for when Ogilvy first took on Vaseline. The 2025 Vaseline Verified campaign emerged after the brand identified over 6,000 documented user-generated hack cases on social platforms; it published in June 2025 and was later extended into the Vaseline Originals product line, which won Grands Prix in Health and Wellness and Social and Influencer at Cannes Lions. |
| Recorded as | Unilever (Vaseline) |
Every other case where they could not turn the posts into ads →
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