Organic Valley forces ghee into the hands of culinary influencers in cheeky campaign
If you’re a fan of cooking shows or a home cook with some flair, you might know what ghee is. If not, a cheeky new digital campaign for Organic Valley is making sure you do, replacing the oils and butters that online culinary influencers use with its new signature ghee – or clarified butter.
Organic Valley Ghee takes over influencer shows
Agency Humanaut is launching the digital campaign to introduce Organic Valley’s Ghee. Because clarified butter is lactose-free, high in fat and has a higher smoke point than traditional cooking oils, it is rapidly gaining popularity in both the paleo and general cooking communities. But awareness is still low, and many people don’t know how to use it.
The humorously odd ads leverage YouTube cooking influencers to demonstrate how easy it is to substitute their ghee for other oils. Any time the chef uses the word oil or butter, it is abruptly censored with a loud, bleep-like “gheeeeee!” An almost-too-chipper spokeswoman explains, “And that’s how you use ghee, silly!”
The ‘Ghee-lish Any Dish’ videos launched on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, and as programmatic digital on popular sites like People, Refinery29, Buzzfeed, the New York Times and others, as well as on premium food and home sites. Additionally, the existing audiences of featured influencers will help push the content.
“The number one reason people don’t buy ghee is they don’t know what to do with it. But all you need to do is use it in place of any cooking oil or butter,” Humanaut founder and chief creative officer David Littlejohn explained. “Instead of making new content, we realized we could reuse all this existing online cooking footage to show people how they could substitute ghee in pretty much any recipe.”
The campaign consists of 17 different executions and features 10 cooking influencers getting their recipes ‘Ghee-lished.’ In a one-minute hero, 30-second edit and several cut-downs, foodies will see appearances from Food Network’s Katie Lee and a vibrant cast of culinary YouTubers including Donal Skehan, Kent Rollins, Momma Cherri, Billy Parisi, Darius Williams and Alyssa Gagarin.
Each of the influencers gets their own dedicated commercial. On the week of July 9, the chefs will begin posting their videos on their respective social platforms where they have the highest reach and dedicated followers. Campaign elements will run through end of December.
Humanaut worked closely with NYC-based media partner Junction 37 on the unique influencer strategy.
“We’re always looking for ways to challenge the way the media channel behaves,” said Littlejohn. “Influencers are usually creating their own new content for brands, in this case we’re leveraging the value of the influencers’ back-catalog and editing the footage ourselves. It’s a win-win for everyone.”
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