Getting Ready

Very has launched a new insight-led Spring campaign showcasing its one-stop-shop retail offering and capturing the recognisable chaos that ensues when a family is getting ready to leave the house for an event – the kind of moment that is so frequent when Spring arrives.

Very’s customer insight shows that families look forward to Spring as a key point in their calendars. It represents the end of winter and the start of planning for warmer months, ushering in renewed positivity. Families intend to spend more time outside, including in the garden; plan days out and holidays, and attend events together.

The digital retailer provides a one-stop-shop for families, combining items across fashion, electrical, home and more with flexible ways to pay via its VeryPay platform. In Spring, this translates into an appetite for fashion, garden items, and gifting, which are all represented in Very’s latest campaign.

As families move into Spring, their wardrobes get an update. Very’s full price clothing sales grew between March 2022 and April 2022, while ‘women’s dresses’ was the retailer’s seventh highest search term over the same period. Meanwhile, families venture into the garden again. Organic searches on Very for ‘garden furniture’ rose in February 2022 and peaked in March 2022. Consumers remain focused on items for their children, even in challenging economic times, while seasonal events make gifting an important focus, with year-round birthdays representing the biggest UK gifting market after Christmas.

Incorporating these themes, the new campaign dramatises a moment all families experience, but our savvy customer is cool, calm and collected because she has prepared the family with the help of Very – it’s her not so secret, secret.
The campaign’s TV ad, called ‘Getting Ready’ and created by Grey London, introduces us to Mum, who talks to us as she attempts to get her family ready for yet another Spring gathering. With lost car keys, a daughter who doesn’t want to go, last minute gift wrapping, a barking puppy and a son who won’t part from his superhero costume, we see chaos at every turn moments before it’s time to leave.

Thanks to mum, who has prepared at Very, the family miraculously makes it out of the house together in perfect – and stylish – form to attend Nan’s 60th birthday. But just as we think they are in the clear, the son leaps into action revealing a sneakily hidden superhero costume.

Created by Grey London, the 30-second TVC launches on 16 March 2023 on TV, video-on-demand and cinema, accompanied by three 10-second cut-downs. Campaign stills were also taken on the day for BTL content.

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