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Dove's 'Selfie' ad: long, preachy and deeply misguided | The Globe and Mail

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SUSAN KRASHINSKY - MARKETING REPORTER

This week, Dove threw itself a party.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its “campaign for real beauty,” the Unilever PLC-owned brand launched a short film (a.k.a. an eight-minute ad) at the Sundance Film Festival, called “Selfie.” It featured real teenaged girls and their mothers talking about their insecurities, and about debunking beauty standards.

And it was terrible.

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