Consumer Insight Deep Dive

Tyson
Chunky
P&G
Clients : Campbell's Chunky

An Ethnography of Chunky Values

The Campbell's Soup brand Chunky has experienced phenomenal growth over the past five years. Campbell's and their advertising agency, Young & Rubicam, wanted to understand what, exactly, had fueled that growth in an effort to maintain and increase it. To do this, the Chunky team wanted to delve deep into the lives of Chunky Soup eaters to gain a new perspective on their motivations when purchasing and eating Chunky Soup.

To do this, Context anthropologists met with "heavy and light users" of Chunky Soup. The participants included individuals and families living in four markets throughout the US. The researcher took each participant through a series of methods including an in-depth contextual interview, a shop-along, a pantry inventory, and a meal participant-observation exercise. In addition, several of the participants completed a video diary exercise in which they video-documented a personal "Chunky Soup Moment".

Insights gleaned from the study were disseminated throughout Campbell's and Y&R via a video of distilled findings. The Chunky team used these insights to develop the messaging strategy that was revealed in the 2002/2003 Chunky Soup advertising campaign.



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