Safeguard turns focus on brand

Procter & Gamble has unveiled its latest TVC for Safeguard, which pushes the brand rather the functional benefits of the products for the first time in mainland China.

'Home', airing nationwide on CCTV after debuting earlier this month, seeks to underscore Safeguard's positioning as a product that will bring health to all the homes in China with an emotive ad interspersing key moments from a family's life, such as the birth of a baby and the building of new home, with scenes of children being washed. Safeguard identified health as one of the elements that turns a house into a home, explained Polly Chu, ECD of Saatchi & Saatchi, the agency behind the ad. The TVC uses a play on words at its end, with the Chinese for Safeguard sounding similar to Chinese for 'comfortable home'. Its tagline is 'Where there is Safeguard there is comfortable home'. A second phase of the campaign will be supported by print and some instore elements.