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Gillette gives the region’s dads a Father’s Day to remember

With 'Father’s Day Is Closer Than You Think' Gillette turns an invisible day into a cultural moment.

Gillette Father's Day

For this year’s Father’s Day, Gillette broke through the crowded sameness in its category and made emotional relevance its edge.

The challenge? Father’s Day in the Middle East barely existed. Not celebrated, remembered or even recognised. For a brand rooted in helping men be their best, that cultural invisibility offered a unique opportunity to lead with purpose.

With ‘Father’s Day is Closer Than You Think’, Gillette, in collaboration with integrated creative agency JWI, turned a forgotten date into a meaningful, multi-touchpoint movement.

“We saw a cultural blind spot,” said Adele Baxter, Client Services Director at JWI. “Modern fathers are emotionally engaged, but they weren’t


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Shantelle Nagarajan is Campaign Middle East’s Junior Reporter who covers marketing news which focuses on FMCG, real estate and brand retail industries. Her features delve into brand strategy, appointments, trends in consumer behaviour and CX. Shantelle also contributes to social media coverage, editorial event programming and print content work. She previously worked in PR and marketing, most recently at Edelman, where she was part of the Brand team. When she’s not writing for her day job, you can find her with her nose buried in a book, playing at a weekly open mic night or doom-scrolling the latest make-up challenges on TikTok.