For the latest reappearance of Evian’s much-loved, much-awarded “Live Young” babies, the brand is eschewing television for a digital-first push centered
around an Instagram partnership.
This time, BETC Paris’s creative theme, “Oversize,” presents adorable toddlers garbed in adult-size outfits, to give adult viewers
a sense of how the world looks through a baby’s eyes.
The premise is an extension of the concept of 2013’s “Baby & Me” iteration, in which adults looked
into mirrors and saw themselves as babies. That came four years after the now-eight-years-old campaign’s origination, with the “Roller Babies” concept.
Evian
isn’t abandoning TV, its global marketing director, Patricia Oliva, insisted to The Drum. Instead, the brand chose to focus on Instagram this
time around because it wanted to maximize interactivity, as well as leverage Instagram’s popularity with Millennials, in particular — a crucial part of the brand’s broader target
audience, she said.
The campaign — rolling out in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Switzerland and Benelux — includes a limited-edition Snapchat filter offering
through-babies’-eyes creative, as well as geo-filters that will change weekly, both of which are accessible through a Snapcode on Evian bottles.
Other elements include
out-of-home, events and social media. Those components will feature appearances by existing Evian brand reps including Stan Wawrinka, Lucas Pouille, Madison Keys, Lydia Ko and Maria
Sharapova.
In addition, Evian has partnered with hip fashion brand Rad to produce an oversized apparel line that’s being featured in Rad’s online store and promoted in the Galeries Lafayette in Paris.