14
May

From Youngistan to Menopauseland….

   Posted by: gargi   in Gender Issues, Society

If there is Youngistan, can MenoPauseLand be far behind …
The NYT reports :

Menopauseland is the invention of Amerifit Brands and its creative agency, BrandBuzz in New York, on behalf of Estroven, a supplement that is meant to help reduce the symptoms of menopause. A campaign with a budget estimated at $20 million is centered on the imaginary land where women of a certain age can celebrate a new stage of life.

Menopauseland “stands for the freedom, the liberation, that women felt at this point in their lives,” he adds.

That is conveyed with a light-hearted tone in the various elements of the campaign. For instance, in the TV commercial, an attractive older woman is shown emerging from a swimming pool. She is met by a hunky younger man with a towel and a six-pack — the abdominal kind, that is, as opposed to, say, a six-pack of Diet Coke — who massages her shoulders.

The woman is then heard speaking as if writing a postcard to a friend. “Dear Lynn, in all my travels, there’s no place more liberating than here,” she says. “Kisses, Kate.”

I wonder if geographically the two are next to each other … it opens up interesting possibilities….
I wonder if this is in the league of have a happy period :)

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8 comments so far

 1 

I daresay this might be in the same league.

May 14th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
 2 

yes… i thought as much…. :)

May 14th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
 3 

One of the comments said “Bloody hell” !!!

Anyway, since I am fortunate to have been born male, I shall not condescend and snicker!

Pardon the digression, but marketing and branding are really fascinating arts. How ‘they’ can make ‘us’ believe that we are cool for buying certain brands is beyond me, but I feel it and I see it! ‘They’ can create a market out of nothing! Creative geniuses they are!

May 15th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
 4 

Hi Harini,

As far as i know about ‘menopause’ it is bad stage in a life of a woman.Which again is complex because , when they get it they are sad and when they loose it they are even more sad. which is why most of the time i can’t understand woman.

menopauseland? ok i’f i’m on a plane i will never do a emergency landing there , i rather hit a tree and fall or something… or u know what ,since i really can’t correlate branding strategy to menopause i simply keep my hotflash comments to myself.

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May 15th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
 5 

Does this merely confirm how effective might messages creative agencies be, to the point of actually defining feelings?

May 16th, 2008 at 8:48 am
 6 

@BG - hi BG. that was deeply profound… the branding strategy seems very brave …:)
will do. thank you

@Anil - hi. it could also show how out of touch ‘creative agencies’ are with their audience… :)

May 16th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
 7 

I rather be in Axeland

May 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
 8 

hi gopal
that sounds like fun….:)

May 17th, 2008 at 10:07 am

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