A flat lay of Pawp's Care Over Fear picnic mailer, its basket-patterned box, flea and tick chewables, tennis ball, bowl, and brochure artwork.
Pawp

Care Over Fear

A flat lay of Pawp's Care Over Fear picnic mailer, its basket-patterned box, flea and tick chewables, tennis ball, bowl, and brochure artwork.
Pawp

Care Over Fear

A flat lay of Pawp's Care Over Fear picnic mailer, its basket-patterned box, flea and tick chewables, tennis ball, bowl, and brochure artwork.
Pawp

Care Over Fear

Role / Title

Head of Creative & Brand Marketing

Company

Pawp

Industry

Pet Tech

Year

2022

Project

Flea & Tick Campaign

Role / Title

Head of Creative & Brand Marketing

Company

Pawp

Industry

Pet Tech

Year

2022

Project

Flea & Tick Campaign

Role / Title

Head of Creative & Brand Marketing

Company

Pawp

Industry

Pet Tech

Year

2022

Project

Flea & Tick Campaign

Every competitor sells flea and tick prevention through fear. What if it was care instead?

Pawp is a pet health company built on 24/7 virtual vet care. It was expanding from a direct-to-consumer subscription into a B2B2C model sold through clinics, veterinary practices, and corporate benefits packages, and testing new e-commerce models.

Why does pet health marketing all look the same? Because fear is the easy button (cue those sad Sarah Maclachlan commercials here), and nobody had tested whether care could sell just as well.

01.

Context

Pawp was testing out new markets and they had recently started expanding their offering by selling flea & tick medication to their members directly. Our first campaign was to figure out how to effectively promote and remind our members about this new feature to our service. We wanted it to feel authentic to our brand and show up differently than how the manufacturers or clinics did.

02.

Problem

The category's default script was fear. Scare people into buying prevention, then let the threat do the selling. Pawp's whole premise was different: accessible and warm, the kind of vet you'd text at 2am. Fear-based creative would have worked against everything the brand stood for.

03.

How I Moved the Org

The open question wasn't whether stakeholders would approve a delight-led campaign. It was whether it would actually work. Fear-based creative in this category leans on one simple threat: your pet could die without this. Testing a storytelling-led alternative against that baseline meant finding out whether warmth could sell prevention just as well, for an audience that already trusted their vet. I developed "Life Outside, Bug-Free," reframing flea and tick care as an act of love instead of an obligation. Influencer mailers arrived as branded picnic boxes, a campaign you could physically unbox. Every element anchored in joyful outdoor moments between pets and their people, with product features woven into the story rather than announced to the reader.

A hand holds open Pawp's Care Over Fear brochure, its illustrated dusk picnic scene inviting pet parents to take the party outdoors.
A dog's nose peeks from a soft yellow blanket, the cozy, love-first imagery Pawp used instead of fear tactics in its flea and tick launch.
Pawp's Care Over Fear brochure lists four playful tips for flea and tick season, reframing prevention as care rather than a warning.
A hand holds open Pawp's Care Over Fear brochure, its illustrated dusk picnic scene inviting pet parents to take the party outdoors.

01.

Context

Pawp was testing out new markets and they had recently started expanding their offering by selling flea & tick medication to their members directly. Our first campaign was to figure out how to effectively promote and remind our members about this new feature to our service. We wanted it to feel authentic to our brand and show up differently than how the manufacturers or clinics did.

A dog's nose peeks from a soft yellow blanket, the cozy, love-first imagery Pawp used instead of fear tactics in its flea and tick launch.

02.

Problem

The category's default script was fear. Scare people into buying prevention, then let the threat do the selling. Pawp's whole premise was different: accessible and warm, the kind of vet you'd text at 2am. Fear-based creative would have worked against everything the brand stood for.

Pawp's Care Over Fear brochure lists four playful tips for flea and tick season, reframing prevention as care rather than a warning.

03.

How I Moved the Org

The open question wasn't whether stakeholders would approve a delight-led campaign. It was whether it would actually work. Fear-based creative in this category leans on one simple threat: your pet could die without this. Testing a storytelling-led alternative against that baseline meant finding out whether warmth could sell prevention just as well, for an audience that already trusted their vet. I developed "Life Outside, Bug-Free," reframing flea and tick care as an act of love instead of an obligation. Influencer mailers arrived as branded picnic boxes, a campaign you could physically unbox. Every element anchored in joyful outdoor moments between pets and their people, with product features woven into the story rather than announced to the reader.

01.

Context

Pawp was testing out new markets and they had recently started expanding their offering by selling flea & tick medication to their members directly. Our first campaign was to figure out how to effectively promote and remind our members about this new feature to our service. We wanted it to feel authentic to our brand and show up differently than how the manufacturers or clinics did.

02.

Problem

The category's default script was fear. Scare people into buying prevention, then let the threat do the selling. Pawp's whole premise was different: accessible and warm, the kind of vet you'd text at 2am. Fear-based creative would have worked against everything the brand stood for.

03.

How I Moved the Org

The open question wasn't whether stakeholders would approve a delight-led campaign. It was whether it would actually work. Fear-based creative in this category leans on one simple threat: your pet could die without this. Testing a storytelling-led alternative against that baseline meant finding out whether warmth could sell prevention just as well, for an audience that already trusted their vet. I developed "Life Outside, Bug-Free," reframing flea and tick care as an act of love instead of an obligation. Influencer mailers arrived as branded picnic boxes, a campaign you could physically unbox. Every element anchored in joyful outdoor moments between pets and their people, with product features woven into the story rather than announced to the reader.

A hand holds open Pawp's Care Over Fear brochure, its illustrated dusk picnic scene inviting pet parents to take the party outdoors.
A dog's nose peeks from a soft yellow blanket, the cozy, love-first imagery Pawp used instead of fear tactics in its flea and tick launch.
Pawp's Care Over Fear brochure lists four playful tips for flea and tick season, reframing prevention as care rather than a warning.

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Three panels trace Pawp's Care Over Fear campaign, a tips brochure, an unboxed picnic kit, and an illustrated park scene at dusk.

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