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"Välkommen till Brico Dépôt" is a social-first video campaign created by Jellyfish France for Brico Dépôt, launched in France in October 2025 across TikTok, Meta and Pinterest, positioning the brand as an essential kitchen destination through a fictional Swedish character named Lars who explores a Brico Dépôt warehouse and leaves converted.
Brico Dépôt is owned by Kingfisher plc, according to bricodepot.fr, the international home-improvement group that also operates Castorama in France. This ownership context matters: both banners compete for the same French household-product consumer, making category positioning a strategic priority rather than a creative indulgence. The kitchen category represents one of the highest-consideration purchases in the house and garden sector, and "Välkommen till Brico Dépôt" is designed to make Brico Dépôt the instinctive first reference when French consumers begin that journey.
The campaign's central proposition is elegantly simple: if Lars, a Swede with an inherited reverence for Scandinavian kitchen design, chooses Brico Dépôt, why would any French consumer hesitate? That rhetorical device anchors every piece of content in the campaign. The rollout began on 29 October 2025 with a teaser, as documented by both e-marketing.fr and CB News, followed by three hero films released on 31 October, 3 November and 5 November 2025 respectively. Six ten-second capsule films then punctuated the campaign throughout November, sustaining attention across TikTok, Meta and Pinterest long after the initial launch moment. The campaign carries a Clapboard Score of 63 out of 100, reflecting solid strategic clarity and platform-native execution against a creative idea that leans on a single comic conceit.
Brico Dépôt entered this campaign against a contracting French DIY market. The French DIY superstore market generated approximately €22.8 billion in 2024, down from approximately €24.3 billion in 2023, according to diysummit.org, representing a contraction that puts pressure on every major banner to defend margin and frequency. The French DIY market was estimated at approximately €21.8 billion in 2025, down a further year-on-year, per diyinternational.com, making category-specific repositioning an urgent commercial priority rather than an optional brand investment.
Within that context, the kitchen category offers Brico Dépôt a defensible, high-value battleground. Leroy Merlin, the dominant French DIY retailer, and Castorama, a fellow Kingfisher-owned banner, both invest heavily in kitchen ranges and the aspirational home-improvement messaging that surrounds them. Brico Dépôt's strategic answer, as articulated through this campaign, is not to match that aspirational register but to undercut it with a credibility argument: genuine quality at fair prices, available immediately, without the waiting times associated with bespoke kitchen suppliers.
The social media campaign targets French consumers at the moment of category entry, when they are scrolling TikTok, Meta or Pinterest and beginning to imagine what their next kitchen might look like. In France, online DIY sales increased approximately seven point seven percent to reach approximately €1.35 billion in 2025, according to ecommercemag.fr, demonstrating that digital channels are growing even as the physical market contracts. A social-first campaign that meets category-curious consumers on those platforms is therefore not merely a creative preference but a media strategy aligned with measurable consumer behaviour.
Ali Marhyar directed "Välkommen till Brico Dépôt" for production company HVH. Marhyar's approach, as described in coverage from e-marketing.fr, embraces a documentary tone that reads as observational rather than staged, a deliberate choice that serves the campaign's credibility argument. Lars does not perform enthusiasm; he investigates, compares finishes, deliberates and ultimately decides. That rhythm mirrors the actual behaviour of a considered kitchen shopper, giving the comic premise a grounded, believable texture.
The creative team at Jellyfish France was led by Thomas Guilhot as VP Creative, with Alexandre Boutry as Creative Director and Adrien Buronfosse as Art Director, according to e-marketing.fr and adsoftheworld.com. Marie Raimbert Galtier served as Managing Director at Jellyfish France and Michael Edery as VP Brand Strategy. On the production side, Boris Vassallo produced the films, Amandine Masurel served as production director, Bertrand Marin was director of photography and Rachel Desmarest handled casting, per hvh.tv. That depth of credited craft roles signals a production scope unusual for a social-first campaign, reinforcing the strategic seriousness behind what presents as a light, humorous execution.
Lars speaks Swedish throughout, with French subtitles ensuring accessibility for every viewer in France. That bilingual device is not merely a comic flourish. It signals authenticity: a real Swede evaluating kitchens the way a real Swede would, using the reference culture most associated with design intelligence in that category. The six ten-second capsules extend the campaign's presence across November 2025 without repeating the same joke, instead isolating specific product moments — finishes, configurations, price references — that carry brand substance independent of the narrative conceit. The campaign spans 360-degree, digital and film formats, as noted on adsoftheworld.com, anchoring the social content in a broader communications architecture.
No independently verified performance metrics for "Välkommen till Brico Dépôt" are publicly available at the time of writing. Coverage from e-marketing.fr, published on 7 November 2025, described the campaign's use of Nordic humour as an effective mechanism for strengthening Brico Dépôt's kitchen positioning, and CB News, writing on 4 November 2025, presented the campaign premise positively as a credible brand statement. Neither outlet published reach, view or conversion figures.
Structurally, the campaign is built for sustained performance. The sequenced rollout — teaser, three hero films, six capsules across TikTok, Meta and Pinterest — creates multiple points of entry for an algorithm-driven distribution environment where no single piece of content reaches every target user. The documentary tone reduces the skip-rate risk inherent to more overtly commercial formats on TikTok. The Swedish-language dialogue with French subtitles creates the kind of curiosity-driven pause that social platforms reward with extended watch time.
The campaign's single greatest structural strength is the economy of its central idea. The comparison to Scandinavian kitchen culture requires no explanatory copy, no celebrity endorsement and no promotional mechanic. It transfers brand credibility through cultural association alone, making it scalable across formats from a three-minute hero film to a ten-second capsule without losing coherence. That scalability is a meaningful production efficiency in a contracting French DIY market where return on creative investment is under increasing scrutiny. The Clapboard Score of 63 out of 100 reflects that the campaign delivers a clear, distinctive idea with competent execution while remaining constrained by its reliance on a single comic register across an extended content schedule.
"Välkommen till Brico Dépôt" is a social-first video campaign launched in France in October 2025. Created by Jellyfish France, it follows a fictional Swedish character named Lars visiting a Brico Dépôt warehouse to evaluate kitchen products. The campaign ran across TikTok, Meta and Pinterest throughout October and November 2025.
Ali Marhyar directed the campaign films. HVH served as the production company. The creative team at Jellyfish France included Thomas Guilhot as VP Creative, Alexandre Boutry as Creative Director and Adrien Buronfosse as Art Director, with Boris Vassallo producing and Bertrand Marin as director of photography.
The campaign ran on TikTok, Meta and Pinterest. These platforms were chosen to reach French consumers at the moment of category consideration. The social-first strategy aligns with growth in French online DIY sales, which increased approximately seven point seven percent to around €1.35 billion in 2025, according to ecommercemag.fr.
The campaign launched with a teaser on 29 October 2025, followed by three hero films on 31 October, 3 November and 5 November. Six ten-second capsule films then ran throughout November 2025. This sequenced rollout created sustained presence across TikTok, Meta and Pinterest during a key household-product consideration period in France.
The Brico Dépôt "Välkommen till Brico Dépôt" campaign received a Clapboard Score of 63 out of 100. The score reflects a clear, distinctive central idea and competent platform-native execution, balanced against a reliance on a single comic register sustained across an extended content schedule of ten individual films and capsules.
Brico Dépôt used the fictional Swede Lars to transfer Scandinavian design credibility to its own kitchen range. The premise — if even a Swede chooses Brico Dépôt, why wouldn't you — positions the brand as matching the quality expectations associated with Nordic kitchen culture while maintaining its core proposition of fair prices and immediate availability in France.
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