Marita Kuntonen kicked off the diversity panel session with a case study on the award winning Absolut creative campaign which sought to demonstrate support to the LGBT community.
Jung was founded in 2003 out of a passion for doing things differently. For us it was never about adding another agency to the mainstream. Instead, we set out to challenge industry conventions and bring new energy and innovation to Market Communication and Public Relations.
Brands are like people - The consumer is a person - Other people affect us the most
By uniting brands with popular culture and contemporary issues, we help our clients to earn a place in everyday conversation and people's hearts.
Historically strong women empowerment movement
Hoa-Hoa Dahlgren Swedish weight lifting champion in the Swedish social insurance agency campaign in the seventies to encourage more men to take parental leave
Social-democrat - well fare state, global awareness, free education etc
In 2001, the Netherlands[nb 3] became the first nation in the world to grant same-sex marriages.[82] Since then same-sex marriages have been granted and mutually recognized by Belgium (2003),[83] Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2009), Sweden (2009), Portugal (2010),[84] Iceland (2010), Argentina (2010),[85] Denmark (2012),[nb 1] Brazil (2013), France (2013), Uruguay (2013), New Zealand[nb 4] (2013), the United Kingdom[nb 5] (2014), Luxembourg (2015), the United States[nb 6] (2015), Ireland (2015) and Colombia (2016)
State support for immigrant integration programs - one of the most generous in Europe
Work labour - greece, italic , finland
Political immigrants - chile, serbia, crotia, irak, iran etc
JUNG - By uniting brands with popular culture and contemporary issues, we help our clients to earn a place in everyday conversation and people's hearts.
The starting point - advertisements for Absolut 1981 - ran in two magazines read by gay men - The Advocate and After Dark.
Highly unusual three decades ago - almost all brands feared alienating the larger, mainstream market.
Those first Absolut ads were later followed with events in bars, donations to charities and causes, outdoor advertising
Ads by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Jean Paul Gaultier
First big brand to commit to and pursue the LGBT market
Focus groups/Qualitative survey/Desktop research
We wanted to challenge prejudice, go beyond stereotypes and clichés, and avoid putting a label on people. We manifested that by taking the label off our iconic bottle.
100 000 bottles sold
Launched in 25 markets
Thousands of press clippings, incl. New York Times, Wallpaper, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Creativity Magazine, Fantastic Man, Love Magazine, Hypebeast, Gay Right Org etc.
Accounted for 51% of all ABSOLUT related tweets during the six month launch period
97% positive sentiment (Synnovate)
Awarded/Shortlisted at Eurobest, Epica, Spinn and Sabre Awards