MUSE Platinum

2025

Dove Self-esteem Project x Blippi

Entrant Company

Moonbug Entertainment

Category

Branded Content - Entertainment

Client's Name

Dove

Country / Region

United States

Since 2004, Dove’s Self-esteem Project has provided body confidence education to over 114 million young people to help them reach their full potential. With children as young as four starting to become aware of how they feel about their body, there is a clear need for more body image interventions that foster a strong foundation in body confidence at an early age. That’s why in 2024, the Dove Self-esteem Project partnered with Moonbug Entertainment, the award-winning entertainment company behind the world’s most popular preschool entertainment brands, to extend its body confidence education tools to address kids as young as four for the first time.

Moonbug created a 75-minute musical special, Blippi’s Wonderful Talent Show, where Blippi puts on a talent show to showcase his friends’ unique abilities and the amazing things their bodies can do. The two key considerations for the special were 1) focusing lyrics and storylines on what the body can DO, not what it looks like, and 2) showcasing diverse bodies across shape/size, gender, and ethnicity. The special included nine music videos. Dove Self-esteem Project and Moonbug also created social content and a downloadable toolkit to support parents in navigating complex conversations around body confidence.

To ensure the impact of the content, Dove and Moonbug partnered with the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR), a research center focused on body image. Throughout the production process, Dove and Moonbug collaborated with CAR on the special’s narrative, script, and lyrics. Once it was ready, CAR tested the content with an audience of over 350 children; passing the CAR testing process was a necessary step for the content to move forward. Testing results indicated that the content has a positive effect on kids’ body confidence, giving Dove and Moonbug the green light to go live.

Dove had just one KPI for the campaign: to improve self-esteem in preschool-aged children, which was validated through the CAR testing. The special has received over 56 million organic views, 800K music streams, 4.7 million organic social impressions, and 89K social engagements, indicating that kids also find it entertaining and engaging.

Credits

Global Brand Manager Dove, Unilever
Gaia Marranetto
Global Head of Education & Advocacy, Dove Self-Esteem Project, Unilever
Stacie June
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Appearance Research, UWE Bristol
Dr. Nadia Craddock, PhD
Executive Producer, Blippi, Moonbug Entertainment
Lizzy Easterday
Music Director, Blippi, Moonbug Entertainment
Olivier Corpe
Senior Director of Production, Moonbug Entertainment
Debbie Deeney
Director of Production, Blippi, Moonbug Entertainment
Thomas Smeltzer
General Manager, Blippi, Moonbug Entertainment
Mike Katzman
Head of Brand Marketing and Franchise Strategy, Moonbug Entertainent
Katelynn Heil
Global Head of Brand Strategy & Client Success
Emma Witkowski
Global Director of Client Success, Moonbug Entertainment
Emily Arceneaux
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