Consumer
Insight Deep Dive
Tyson
Chunky
P&G
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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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