Crusha
Add milk or we'll Crusha
// Advertising / TV / Idents
Crusha was a classic challenger brand in direct competition with a classic market dominator, Nesquik.
We had to target the consumer (child), not just the purchaser (Mum). So we exploited Nesquik’s weakness and de-positioned them as the milkshake for wimps.
We created content - TV, released a single - complete with video - with anarchic punk-style kittens pounding out a rock song about crushing things. ‘Add milk or we’ll Crusha’. Making Nesquik babyish and keeping health in there for Mum.
The ads led to a packaging redesign featuring an anarchic cat and led to the kittens leading the comms for over 10 years.
There was 46% sales growth in Yr1, 65% in Yr2, and an 18% staeal of share from the market dominator.
Plus over 1 million views of the online films and 4 million views of spoofs and the song overheard in many a playground.
The video even made McFly’s Top Five on TMF, which was nice.