In an endeavour to spread awareness around healthy hand washing habits, Dettol has launched its next phase of their nationwide communication initiative ‘Dettol Banega Swachh India’.
To reiterate its commitment towards bringing in behavioural changes and personal hygiene, Dettol has rolled out a new TVC by McCann Erickson India focussing on real life challenges. The TVC focuses on multiple ways the consumer can practice good hand hygiene habits.
Dettol has reached out to over 10 million mothers and children since 2006 to educate them about the importance of hygiene and sanitation. Dettol has also been associated with the Global Hand washing Day (GHD) celebrated every year on 15th October globally – an initiative to motivate and mobilize people around the world to improve their hand washing habits.
Speaking about the campaign Arjun Purkayastha, Marketing Director – Dettol Developing Markets at RB, said, “We understand the extreme importance of hand hygiene and sanitation in the lives of our consumers. Last year, we had launched our campaign to promote healthy hand wash habits amongst children and mothers which turned out to be a huge success. This year, we are moving a step further and taking this educational message forward by addressing real life situations in everyday living; hence entertaining and engaging at the same time.”
Explaining the idea behind the new campaign Prasoon Joshi, Chairman – Asia Pacific, CEO & Chief Creative Officer – India, McCann World group said, “Dettol KaDhula campaign, which was launched last year, helped us to create a movement towards personal hygiene. This year we are trying to recreate the same phenomena by bringing in real life situations, places and people whom we see on a daily basis grappling with the issue of hand wash and cleanliness. The campaign will educate, create awareness and reinforce them to maintain hygiene by bringing in the behavioural change of washing their hands before and after every meal through an impactful TVC, backed by the extremely popular ‘Dettol DettolHo’ Jingle.”
He further added that, “Repetitive reminders help in good habit formation and thorough this new TVC we aim to establish healthy hand washing habits not only in children but also in adults.”
In 2014, RB had launched “Dettol – Banega Swachh India” – a 5 year ambitious program to address the need of improving hygiene and sanitation in India.
Credits:
Chief Creative Officer – Prasoon Joshi, Chairman – Asia Pacific, CEO & Chief Creative Officer – India
Creative Directors – Prateek Bhardwaj (NCD), Richie Arora (Creative Team Leader)
Account Management – Alok Lall (Executive Director), Nutan Sooda (GM), Abhishek Walia (Brand Leader), Sunaina Kapoor (Sr. Project Manager)
Strategic Planning – JitendarDabas (Chief Strategy Officer), Vibha Gupta (Strategic Planning Director)
Production House – Keroscene films
Director – Rajesh Saathi
DOP – V. Manikandan
Music Director – ArjunaHarjai
