We Dareylea You - Cheese, Freeze - Dairylea | Clapboard Ad Archive
Dairylea’s audacious 2019 campaign, a playful rebrand to Dareylea delivered in partnership with creative agency ELVIS, injected new energy into the food and drink market with an unapologetically interactive rallying cry: We Dareylea You. In a category often saturated by routine snack narratives or nostalgia-based storytelling, the campaign planted its flag on a temporary brand transformation and made cheese the heart of family engagement, inviting British families to unlock their inner mischief not in abstract but with tangible, take-home actions — more than 8 million specially marked packs filled with cheesy dares designed to get families outdoors and reconnecting through simple fun. The fully integrated campaign spanned Out-Of-Home, online video, social, radio, and a highly visible in-store presence, all underpinned by a distinctive visual signature: a life-sized, outdoorsy set crafted entirely from paper, lending every touchpoint a charming physicality and hand-made credence that mirrored the campaign’s call for active participation. The creative leap aligns with Clapboard’s FORMAT#11 — Unique Personality Property — foregrounding the brand’s own personality as the principal driver: cheese as playful dare, packaging as invitation, and product as a socially connective catalyst. Rather than defaulting to a traditional problem-solution pitch or claim-based comparison, Dairylea leaned hard into its uniquely ownable energy, appealing directly to ‘balancer’ parents for whom moderation, laughter, and family interaction are a daily pursuit, thus aligning with the brand’s longer-term positioning, Feed the Fun. The campaign built real momentum, generating significant online traction with over 616,000 video views and demonstrable engagement that translated into a lively social and brand conversation. Carat’s media strategy made strategic buy-in count, maximizing visibility at every touchpoint, and making sure Dareylea’s new dare-based personality resonated far beyond the cheese aisle. The campaign earns 64/100 in Clapboard’s global creative archive. At a time when product-led identity in FMCG is increasingly rare, Dareylea’s campaign makes the case that creativity grounded in brand distinctiveness and interactive packaging can unlock true participation and renewed relevance.