All work

one message, a season of campaigns.

Client
Xtressé, dermatologist-developed hair care
What we did
Strategy, campaign concepts and production
Where it runs
Paid social, Instagram and email

The brief

A category nobody had heard of.

A new category, stress-adaptive hair wellness, for the 80 million Americans losing hair who had never heard of it.

The insight

Hair feels it too.

Stress shows up in the hair, and people already sense it.

The idea

Care, not cosmetics.

Talk about it as care, not cosmetics, and prove it in the feed: ten paid hooks, from “This is your sign” to “99 hair stressors”.

Branday found the message, built the campaign ideas around it and produced every piece, with a Brand Manager and Branday OS keeping the brand, the claims and the feedback in one place.

Strategy builds the story. Content shapes the language. Performance refines the results.

The workflow

From the insight to every feed.

One team and Branday OS, from the first insight to the last email.

01

Hair feels
it too.

The Xtressé wordmark

The strategy

One message: hair feels it too.

02

“This is your sign”, a paid post

The concepts

Ten ideas, built to test.

03

The Xtressé wordmark

The system

Brand rules, claims and templates.

04

Rollers photograph

The production

Photo and film for the message.

05

A launch email

The scale

Every channel, every month.

The production

Every frame, shot for a message.

Product, ritual, texture and people, each planned around an idea from the strategy and lit in the brand’s own gold. One shoot becomes the library for months of campaigns.

Volumizing Shampoo falling into water
The full Xtressé set on lather and cream
A woman with glossy short hair
The volumizing duo held behind a steamed shower glass
Deep Moisturizing Hair Mask held in two hands
Fortune cookies and gummies
A pouch of Hair Growth Gummies held in an open hand
Deep Moisturizing Shampoo held over lather

From idea to format

One idea, every format.

Each concept meets its photograph, then the brand’s templates carry it into paid, Instagram, email and retail, with the claims already in place.

  1. This is your signPaid social
  2. Break glassPaid social
  3. Set in rollersInstagram
  4. Step oneInstagram
  5. The easiest part of your morningPaid statics

This is your signPaid social

Fortune cookies and red gummies in warm light
The photograph
xtresseSponsored
“This is your sign”, a paid post

xtresse This is your sign to grow healthier, fuller hair.

Paid social · Meta feed

Break glassPaid social

A pouch of gummies in a red display case
The photograph
xtresseSponsored
“Break glass”, a paid post

xtresse In case of hair-loss emergency: break glass.

Paid social · Meta feed

Set in rollersInstagram

Hair set in rollers made of Xtressé bottles
The photograph
xtresse
“Set in rollers”, an Instagram post

xtresse Strengthens and protects with every wash.

Instagram · October calendar

Step oneInstagram

Washing hair with Xtressé in the shower
The photograph
xtresse
“Step one”, an Instagram post

xtresse Strengthen the strand. Step one of the Xtressé System.

Instagram · November calendar

The easiest part of your morningPaid statics

A café table with Xtressé gummies
The photograph
xtresseSponsored
“The easiest part of your morning”, a paid static

xtresse The easiest part of your morning.

Paid social · November statics

At scale

At the volume the feed asks for.

Posts, carousels, paid statics, stories and emails: agents carry the volume, a named lead signs off every file, and the results shape the next round.

0Instagram posts in two months
0paid ads across two batches
0email layouts, launch to seasonal
0paid variants made to test

Into the inbox

The same message, in every inbox.

Launch, science, seasonal and patient emails, written to the strategy and built on one modular layout system: 35 layouts so far.

Meet the new Xtressé Wash Care

Patient · Launch

Xtressé email: Meet the new Xtressé Wash Care

The science behind a stronger wash

Patient · The science

Xtressé email: The science behind a stronger wash

No tricks. Just your daily treat.

Seasonal · Halloween

Xtressé email: No tricks. Just your daily treat.

Volumizing, plus a moisture boost

Patient · Volumizing

Xtressé email: Volumizing, plus a moisture boost

Formulated with textured hair in mind

Patient · Textured hair

Xtressé email: Formulated with textured hair in mind

Volume starts at the root

Product · Volume at the root

Xtressé email: Volume starts at the root

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Films and reels

Films, spots and reels.

TV commercials, paid social and Instagram reels, shot alongside the photography.

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