VASELINE AND THE REAL NIGERIAN PRINCE
Brand
VASELINE
Entrant Agency
LEO
Category
Social & Creator
Festival & Year
Cannes Lions (2026)
Case Study Details
www.youmark.it - Leo Singapore firma la campagna Vaseline (Unilever) contro i prodotti falsi in Nigeria
Presentation Board
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OCIAL & CREATOR
TURNING THE WORLD’S
MOST FAMOUS SCAM
INTO A VOICE PEOPLE
ae Vasel
PROBLEM EXECUTION
Fake Vaseline flooded Nigerian shelves until real and [ E 5
fake became indistinguishable. Consumers turned to & H Launched from the Prince,
social media for answers, building an unofficial not the brand
The campaign lived on Prince Chris Okagbue’s
Instagram, entering culture as a fight he was
leading, not a message from Vaseline.
verification network of thousands of videos. But with
no reliable source of truth, the community meant to
solve the problem became part of it.
From discovery Makinga _
STRATEGY to decision sensitive topic
More content wouldn't solve it. It would deepen the Every touchpoint led to one shareable
behaviour: open WhatsApp,
noise. So instead of interrupting behaviour, we entered
snap your bottle, get the answer.
it, replacing the crowd with a single source of truth. P RI N C EF
His self-aware humour
and charm flipped a
The Vaseline Authenticator felt sensitive topic into
like a conversation, turning any something people
phone into a real-time product wanted to engage with
checker — free, instant, and share, driving
and accessible. audiences to act.
We turned the world’s most famous scam into a source
of truth. A real Nigerian Prince became the authority
on what's real, giving Nigerians a direct way to check
their Vaseline Body Oil through WhatsApp. This didn't
feel like a brand educating you, but a prince you know
looking out for you.
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