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CANBEBE BY ONTEX

Care begins before
the first diaper

Strategy, expert voices and stories
for the journey into parenthood.

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Mère Veilleuse / Original campaign artworkCanbebe by Ontex × Zone
Client
Canbebe by Ontex
Sector
Baby care
Our role
Strategy, content & activation
Market
Algeria

Long before a baby arrives, a parent’s world begins to change. New questions emerge, familiar routines shift, and decisions take on a different weight. For a baby-care brand, this is where a meaningful relationship can begin.

Canbebe, Ontex’s baby-care brand, wanted to strengthen its place in an increasingly competitive market. Its opportunity extended across the experience of becoming a parent: the uncertainties before motherhood, the first months with a newborn, and the discoveries of a growing child.

Our work connected that wider ambition to a redesigned customer journey, the development of the Canbebe Science Network, expert content, animated storytelling and integrated campaigns. Together, these gave the brand more ways to earn a place in family life through useful information, recognition and shared experience.

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The strategic direction

Starting before the first purchase

We rethought the customer journey around the questions and expectations that develop before someone becomes a mother, then evolve as her child grows.

The resulting Path to Loyalty framework connected awareness, consideration, purchase, loyalty and advocacy. It defined the role of content, channels and relationships at each stage, from answering an early concern to supporting an ongoing connection with the brand.

This changed the starting point for the marketing strategy. Future mothers became an audience with their own needs, requiring a different conversation from parents already living with a baby. The framework gave Canbebe a way to plan those conversations, connect its touchpoints and build continuity across the journey.

Original Canbebe brand engagement framework linking awareness, consideration, purchase, loyalty and advocacy.
Path to Loyalty / The original customer-journey framework.
Contributing to the network

Contributing to the Canbebe Science Network

A wider promise of care needed a credible relationship with the people families turn to for guidance.

We contributed to the development of the Canbebe Science Network, connecting the brand with a community of partner pediatricians. Scientific days and professional encounters gave that relationship a setting in which knowledge could be shared and the network could develop.

Our contribution also extended to the way these encounters were expressed and documented, through audiovisual coverage, interviews and branded materials. For the Science Days, we designed and produced gift boxes around a simple idea: offering a moment of care to people whose work is devoted to caring for others.

The network gave Canbebe a foundation for bringing professional perspectives into its wider relationship with parents.

The scientific-day audience listening to a presentation in the conference room.
Canbebe Science Network / Knowledge shared in person.
Canbebe team members welcoming participants to the scientific day.
The network in person / Welcoming participants.
A participant holding a purple Canbebe Science Network bag at the event.
Canbebe Science Network / A shared identity.
Original purple Canbebe chocolate-tasting guide cover mockup.
Pediatrician gift pack / The original chocolate-guide mockup.
Original Canbebe mug design from the pediatrician gift pack.
Pediatrician gift pack / A personal message.
Original photograph of the assembled purple Canbebe gift box and its contents.
Pediatrician gift pack / The assembled box.
Expert content

Letting parents’ questions lead

The questions coming from the community became a starting point for expert content.

We developed briefs for short pediatrician videos around concerns parents had raised, including children’s sleep, nutrition, screen use and seasonal illnesses. The editorial approach called for accessible language, a reassuring tone and explanations that a parent could follow without specialist knowledge.

We also produced video capsules with pediatricians across the country. The format brought identifiable professionals into the brand’s communication and created material that could travel beyond the original encounters.

This connected community listening, editorial planning and audiovisual production. Parents’ concerns could inform the content, while the Science Network offered a relationship through which relevant expertise could reach them.

Page 1 of the original pediatrician-video brief, covering proposed topics, structure and editorial guidance.
Pediatrician capsules / Original editorial brief, page 1.
Page 2 of the original pediatrician-video brief, covering proposed topics, structure and editorial guidance.
Pediatrician capsules / Original editorial brief, page 2.
32 animated capsules

Following a childhood, one moment at a time

Care also has an emotional dimension. The moments parents remember are often small: a first smile, an uncertain step, a new discovery or a night that finally feels easier.

We developed and produced a series of 32 animated capsules following a child’s journey from birth to the last diaper. Each episode drew on a recognizable moment in early childhood and the experience of the family around it.

The work covered concept development, scriptwriting, storyboards, art direction, animation and sound. A consistent visual world allowed individual episodes to belong to a larger story.

The series gave Canbebe an ongoing narrative built around growing up. Parents could recognize their own experiences in it, giving the brand a familiar, emotional language alongside its educational content.

Animated storytelling

32

Animated capsules.
A childhood in familiar moments.
Original project-archive montage showing scenes from the Canbebe animated series.
Animated storytelling / Samples from the series, as presented in the project archive.
An integrated campaign

Making mothers feel seen

With Mère Veilleuse, the focus moved to the person caring for the child.

Created around Mother’s Day, the campaign recognized the everyday attention and effort that motherhood involves. We developed its identity, messages and creative materials across digital content, outdoor advertising, print and a public activation, giving the different expressions a common language.

At the Centre des Conventions d’Oran, the campaign took physical form through activities, children’s workshops, photo spaces and moments for mothers and their families. Social content and audiovisual coverage extended that experience beyond the event.

The campaign gave Canbebe a way to express appreciation through something people could participate in. Motherhood became the subject of a collective celebration, connecting the brand’s care ambition to a public experience.

Original archive image of creator participation at the Mère Veilleuse activation.
Creator collaborations / Mère Veilleuse, from the project archive.
Original creator-story sample from the Canbebe project archive.
Creator collaborations / Original social-story sample.
A personal gesture

A gesture people could pass on

One part of Mère Veilleuse brought that recognition into a more personal setting.

We wrote and designed a collection of printed cards carrying more than thirty different messages for mothers. Distributed through Canbebe’s national network, including product packs, points of sale and events, the cards brought a small gesture of attention into an ordinary encounter with the brand.

They could reach a mother directly or be offered by someone close to her. That possibility of passing the message on was central to the idea: the campaign could become part of a relationship between people.

The cards gave the creative platform a tangible expression that could be kept, reread or given to someone else. A broad campaign acquired the intimacy of a personal gesture.

Original purple Canbebe campaign artwork presenting two printed Mother’s Day message cards.
Mère Veilleuse / Campaign artwork featuring the printed cards.
Original light-background Canbebe artwork presenting the purple Mother’s Day message cards.
Mère Veilleuse / A second expression of the printed-card campaign.
Content & community

Keeping the relationship alive

The larger initiatives needed continuity in everyday communication.

We managed Canbebe’s social presence through editorial planning, content production, community management and targeted campaigns. Competitive monitoring helped inform adjustments to the communication, while community interactions kept parents’ concerns close to the work.

We also structured the influencer portfolio, identifying relevant profiles, managing partnerships and developing campaign briefs. These collaborations created further opportunities to connect the brand with audiences through familiar voices.

Video, animation, digital filters and stickers offered different ways to participate. Across these formats, the task was to sustain a recognizable relationship: useful when parents had questions, attentive to their experiences, and present through moments they wanted to share.

Original project mockup displaying Canbebe social filters and stickers on three phones.
Digital filters and stickers / Original project showcase.
The shift

What changed

Canbebe gained a broader and more coherent way to build its relationship with families.

The customer journey began earlier, recognizing the questions that precede motherhood. The Science Network created a foundation for relationships with pediatricians. Expert videos brought those voices into public communication, while animation, Mère Veilleuse and everyday content gave the brand ways to connect through emotion and participation.

Our contribution was to link these dimensions through strategy, creative development and production, giving the wider ambition concrete forms that people could encounter.

The shift was in the place Canbebe could occupy in family life: a brand with something relevant to offer before the first purchase, throughout early parenthood and across the experiences of a growing child.

Scope of work

#marketingstrategy #customerjourney #brandpositioning #sciencecommunication #brandcontent #socialmediastrategy #communitymanagement #influencermarketing #creativeconceptdevelopment #integratedcampaigns #brandactivation #OOH #copywriting #animation #audiovisualproduction

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