THE WORLD'S FIRST VLOGGER ACADEMY

TitleTHE WORLD'S FIRST VLOGGER ACADEMY
BrandSUPER-PHARM
Product/ServiceDRUGSTORE AND COSMETICS RETAILER
Category E08. Community Building / Management
Entrant BAUMANN BER RIVNAY SAATCHI & SAATCHI Ramat Gan, ISRAEL
Idea Creation BAUMANN BER RIVNAY SAATCHI & SAATCHI Ramat Gan, ISRAEL
Media Placement ZENITHOPTIMEDIA Ramat Gan, ISRAEL
PR PR SHALOM TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
Production ADONI Ramat Gan, ISRAEL
Additional Company GOOGLE Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
Credits
Name Company Position
Yossi Lubaton BBR Saatchi & Saatchi CEO
Chief Creative Officer BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Chief Creative Officer
Idan Levy BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Creative Director
Maayan Dar BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Digital Creative Director
Liron Cohen BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Digital Copywriter
Carmel Gilan BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Art Director
Dorit Gvili BBR Saatchi & Saatchi VP Production & Content
Maya Palmon BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Producer
Gal Mamalya BBR Saatchi & Saatchi UI/UX
Idit Zukerman BBR Saatchi & Saatchi VP Client Services
Ben Muskal BBR Saatchi & Saatchi VP Client Services
Noa Sharf BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Account Supervisor
Tal Glantz BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Account Executive
Shiran Rachamim BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Account Executive
Shai Nissenboim BBR Saatchi & Saatchi VP Strategy
Roni Arisson BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Planning Supervisor
Moran Nurok BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Strategis Planning
Eva Hasson BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Creative Coordinator
Udi Efrat Adoni Production
Oren Meyuchas Self employed Director & Post Animator
Ram Baruch Self employed Advising Director
Yaron Marcovich Google Agency Manager
Amir Ariely Google Head of Creative
Shani Vengosh Shaul Super-Pharm Communications Manager
Gali Berger Super-Pharm Spokesperson
Ronit Doanis BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Traffic Director
Dan Deutsch BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Video Editor

The Campaign

In the first ever partnership with Google and Youtube, Super-Pharm launched the world's first "Vlogger Academy". An academy that would teach and nurture Israel's first generation of beauty vloggers and lay the foundation for a buzzing beauty community. A content strategy idea that would champion our consumers by empowering them and pulling them into the center of the Super-Pharm experience.

Creative Execution

Using an online recruitment campaign which ran on digital social media channels and a PR push on news sites catering to beauters and fashionistas, we asked potential candidates to upload a video themselves to our microsite explaining why they should be chosen to attend the academy. This way Super-Pharm selected 20 Beauters. Then, after arming candidates with a camera and all the tools they would need, over a 1 month period, two days a week, we taught them everything: styling, journalism, video editing, make-up techniques, self-presentation, social media skills, YouTube analytics, follower outreach and brand collaboration. Lecturers included stylists, cosmetic artists, fashion editors&journalists, film directors&producers, bloggers& YouTubers from Israel and abroad but also digital marketing, advertising and social-media experts. Classes included lectures but also hands-on experiences, course assignments and projects. Hope is, Super-Pharm's graduates will in the future pass on their experience to new beauty vloggers and grow the community.

- Super-Pharm reaffirmed its status as leader of Israel's beauty retail industry. - It created 20 passionate brand ambassadors who will no doubt show the company their gratitude in the future - 20 new social media stars who reached - 89% of the country's beauty content viewers (many of them youngsters in the 16-24 age bracket) - A bold and innovative move, the Academy got extensive coverage in Israel and abroad with Contagious Magazine dedicating two 15 page articles to the initiative. - The academy format is now being rolled out globally to China and Poland and implemented in Israel across additional product categories.

Upon doing research, we realized that while online video beauty searches had reached huge proportions (In Israel there are over 3.5million monthly beauty-related searches, 35% of which happen on YouTube) most of the content Israeli consumers were exposed to was not in Hebrew and did not originate here. As such the character of the reviews missed a great proportion of women. You will do a review differently depending on whether you are speaking to a secular Jewish woman, Muslim or Ethiopian. And while Israel did have a few people dabbling in beauty reviews online – there was only one real local authority. Therefore, as a retailer that caters to Beauty&Cosmetic enthusiasts from all walks of life, segments and ethnicities, it felt like a natural fit for Super-Pharm to take on the challenge of shaping the nascent beauty-vlogger community and invest in building a long-lasting relationship with them for the future.