Let the channel do the feeling: what Dior Beauty actually did
In May 2022, Dior Beauty ran a four-day WhatsApp campaign to promote the Dior Addict shine lipstick. Consumers signed up via Instagram Stories, reaching Dior Beauty's 9.6 million followers, then joined an exclusive WhatsApp group. Inside, they chose from themed videos and behind-the-scenes content featuring brand ambassador Jisoo of BLACKPINK. Automated conversations handled the personalised journey at scale.
The tension it resolves
A brand that is large and aspirational by design struggled to feel personally close to individual people without losing the scale that makes it relevant.
The challenge it solved for Dior Beauty: How do you make a global luxury brand feel personally close to individual consumers without losing the scale needed to matter?
The mechanism
The brand moved a celebrity ambassador from a public channel, where people watch, into a private messaging channel, where people talk to people they know. The emotional register of the channel did the work the content alone could not.
The lesson
Most brands ask where their audience is. They should also ask what a channel makes people feel before the brand says a single word. When a channel already carries the emotion you need, such as closeness, urgency, or trust, you inherit that emotion just by showing up there. You do not have to earn it through content. The condition this depends on is real: the channel must carry a strong, specific emotional feeling in your audience's daily life. A channel people use for everything carries no particular feeling, and the transfer does not happen.
In another world
A financial advice firm sending its quarterly outlook as a voice note inside WhatsApp rather than a PDF by email, because a voice note from a number you have saved feels like a call from someone who knows you, not a document from a company.
Source: businesswire.com
FAQ
What is the Let the channel do the feeling pattern?
The brand moved a celebrity ambassador from a public channel, where people watch, into a private messaging channel, where people talk to people they know. The emotional register of the channel did the work the content alone could not.
Which brand proved it works?
Dior Beauty, in beauty and cosmetics (Global, launched from Southeast Asia). jugnu's Kosh tracks 497 such patterns across Indian and global brands.
How do I apply this to my brand?
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