BetterIdeasFaster
Case study

Magnum. 2005.

A pan-European limited range, built from one insight about the small sensual moments that reconnect a busy woman with herself. Eleven frames: the six steps, the handwritten concept sheets, the finished art, and the idea that came out of a brainstorm instead.

It is an old project, yes. It is also the one case study anybody can understand, because everybody knows what a Magnum is and everybody has an opinion about ice cream.

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The full case study

Twenty eight pages, written at the time.

The brief and why a limited edition had to do more than be limited. The focus groups in Rome. All four concepts as they were written by hand. What the testing said about each one, and why Bliss did not survive Germany.

One address and it opens. It is the same one that unlocks the free stack, so you only ever give it once.

Concept illustrations by Kore Antonsen. Concepts written by Matt Hart and Zoe Hamilton. Qualitative insight and testing by Pavan Research, Rome.

Sales up 6.2 per cent, on a budget 32 per cent smaller.

Magnum, pan-European, summer 2005, across fourteen markets. The comparison is the brand’s own previous limited campaign, 7 Sins. It also took a Bronze for effectiveness at the Euro Effies in Brussels in 2006, and a Bronze in Unilever’s own global brand communication awards.