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Case 05· Messaging· Freedom Refined Oils· Olympics 2024· FoxyMoron

Have your favourite food.
And earn gold.

An Olympics-timed campaign that flipped the diet-advice trope. Freedom Oil , the health-oil brand , told Indians to keep eating their favourite food, because the oil was doing the hard work. Two films, seven languages, one gold medal of an insight.

2.4M+YouTube views · combined
2Hero films
7Languages · pan-India
Olympics '24Topical window
Freedom Oil Olympics film , key frame
01 · The brief

Health-oil, but without the guilt

The problem

The health-oil category speaks in disclaimers. Low cholesterol. Zero trans fat. Heart-healthy. Every brand says the same thing, and every ad asks the viewer to eat less, fry less, enjoy less. Freedom Oil needed a voice that didn't punish the audience for liking their food.

The mandate , ride the Olympics window, but don't borrow the cliché of athletes-eating-clean. Reach a pan-India audience in seven languages without diluting the hook.

The insight

Indian food joy sits at the plate , the pakora, the dosa, the samosa. Asking people to give those up to be "healthy" is a losing sell. The real trade-off isn't eat less. It's pick a better oil and keep eating.

We reframed the Olympic goal as a domestic one: the gold isn't on the podium, it's on the plate. "Have your favourite food, and earn gold." Freedom does the compromise for you.

The gold isn't on the podium. It's on the plate.
02 · The films

Two films, seven tongues

▶ YouTube · Film 01
Olympics · Hero film I

Earn your gold, at the table

The Olympic gold reframed as the dinner-plate gold. Domestic lens on a global event , opens up the whole cultural conversation without needing an athlete.

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▶ YouTube · Film 02
Olympics · Hero film II

Favourite food, favourite oil

The companion cut. Same platform, different register , tighter, more warmth. Versioned across seven languages for distribution pan-India.

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03 · Deliverables

What shipped

Messaging pillar

Health-oil without guilt. Moved the category from restriction to permission. Every sub-asset anchored here.

Campaign line

Have your favourite food. And earn gold. , worked across hero film, social, OOH, and packaging.

2 hero films · 7 languages

Two distinct cuts, each localised into seven regional tongues. 2.4M+ combined views on YouTube alone.

Topical Olympics window

Planned, written and shipped inside the Olympic broadcast window. Zero paid-sports rights , all earned cultural equity.