This Toilet Paper Brand Wants Brits to Talk Crap

Andrex is calling time on toileting taboos with a purposeful marketing reboot

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It may not be every creative’s dream to work on a toilet paper account when they grow up, but FCB London’s latest taboo-busting work for Andrex shows that it doesn’t have to be dirty work.

The agency launched “Get Comfortable,” a bold new campaign for the U.K’s largest toilet roll manufacturer, which wants to encourage Brits to let go of their prudery and embarrassment about using the loo.

18 months in the making, the platform shuns the usual category tropes of product shots in pristine bathrooms in favor of funny, visually striking films and clever copy.

According to Matt Stone, marketing director for the U.K.

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