The YBeBlue Ad Campaign

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This paper explains that the ads's effectiveness is based on their ability to use the visual language of other youth-oriented ads to attract adolescents, a group highly likely to suffer from depression. The author points out that the YBeBlue campaign has linked its efforts to those of a number of for-profit companies, a strategy that is becoming increasingly common and can prove to be quite effective for the company concerned, as well as highly useful for the non-profit. The paper relates that the campaign uses television spots, a Web site, banners, and postcards distributed to schools, universities, government agencies, and health centers in a very directed strategy of distribution of information.

Table of Contents
Introduction
A Different Type of Product
Adolescents Targeted By Depression
Using the Language of Young People to Talk to Young People
Moving From Television to Print
Cause-Related Advertising

From the Paper:

"The causes of depression include both biological and possibly genetic causes as well as a range of environmental ones. In many individuals, depression is caused by an interaction between biological and environmental (both personal and general) factors. Depression is categorized as an affective disorder, which means it is one of the forms of mental illness in which the defining characteristic is a mood disturbance. The affective changes in depression are a feeling of sadness (which matches with the popular understanding of the disorder), but it is also marked by feelings of guilt, helplessness and hopelessness. It is these last three that are at least as debilitating as the sadness itself."

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