Más contenido relacionado A Little Innovation Story3. Early ads
promoting
Botox Cosmetic
as a hedonic
pleasure…
7. To combat the poison image,
Allergan repositions Botox as
a miracle of medicine…
9. However,
Botox's "cold"
medicine image
opens up a new
can of worms:
the frozen face...
12. To combat the frozen face image,
Allergan repositions Botox again.
This time as an expression enabler…
13. ...as in your "stubborn eleven"
shouldn't stand in the way of your
"perfect ten"
14. Yet, the idea of using technology to
bring out human emotions sparks a
new fear: the Botox Frankenstein...
16. This is a caricature of Nicole Kidman
exemplifying this popular sentiment
18. Once again, Allergan has to shift
gears. To combat the Frankenstein
image, the company repositions
Botox as a performance booster…
19. For "mother and critical care nurse Angela,"
for instance, Botox is not a Frankendrug…
…it allows her to go “right back to work!”
22. To combat the negative junkie
image, Allergan has to reposition
Botox (and its users) yet again…
24. Today, after many brand
image battles, Botox is
more widely accepted
than in 2002.
31. …they are created in society.
Innovator
Bloggers
Competitors
Journalists Activists
Consumers Celebrities
Scientists
34. This story is based on a scholarly article
about market creation by Markus Giesler
forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing.
It can be downloaded here.