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DISRUPTING THE PINK AISLE
An analysis of GoldieBlox’s promotional campaign from Kickstarter to the Super Bowl
by Milena Roque Torres
Submitted to Emmett Stinson, Lecturer of Business and Professional Communications
The University of Melbourne School of Culture and Communication
June 2014
Background
In recent years, women have made more progress in the workplace and public life, and many men
have taken on a greater share of domestic chores. But when it comes to children, gender stereotypes
are rigidly enforced through increased segregation of toys, clothing and even books for boys and
girls. Toys stores now have pink aisles filled with toys specifically marketed to girls: dolls, cookery
sets and pink toys; the aisles for boys are filled with remote control cars, building kits, sports items
and science kits. In the pink aisles, too few toys teach basic science skills and if there are any, these
are repackaged in pink.
A basic tenet of early education is that children learn and develop skills and interests through
play. Many parents, psychologists and sociologists believe the increase in gender-specific toy
marketing—in catalogues, advertising, online retail and in store—limits children's choices about the
type of toys they can play with and reinforces traditional gender stereotypes, which affects what they
choose to study and the roles they play as adults (Kleinman, 2013).
Indeed, women are vastly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
(STEM) fields. Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25
percent of STEM jobs; this has been the case throughout the past decade, even as college-educated
women have increased their share of the overall workforce (Economics and Statistics
Administration, 2011).
These are the sentiments that urged San Francisco-based engineer Debbie Sterling to design a toy
and start a company called GoldieBlox to get girls interested in STEM fields. She lamented the
absence of female STEM role models in popular culture. Boys look up to characters like Bob the
Builder, Bill Nye the Science Guy and Jimmy Neutron – characters with high IQs and who invent
things. On the other hand, girls have Barbie and 11 official Disney Princesses to choose from, most of
whom are waiting for their Prince Charming. With GoldieBlox – a book series that comes with
construction kits – girls can have a STEM role model in Goldie, the main character in the book.
The toy was inspired by Lego, the world’s most popular construction toy, but GoldieBlox
incorporates building with reading. In Goldie’s stories, she encounters problems that can be solved
by building different machines. Young readers are invited to build along with Goldie, using the
construction set that comes with the book.
GoldieBlox’s mission is to get girls building. On its website, the company says that ‘by tapping into
girls' strong verbal skills, Goldie’s story and the construction set will bolster confidence in spatial
skills while giving young inventors the tools they need to build and create amazing things. ’ It
positions itself as the engineering toy for girls, a new product that aims to ‘disrupt the pink aisle’.
GoldieBlox is made for girls aged four to nine, but marketing is primarily targeted at adults who
have the buying power and who want young girls to succeed—specifically the parents, grandparents,
uncles and aunts of these young girls.
Sterling launched a petition for funding of the first mass production of GoldieBlox in 2012. After
getting funded by backers, GoldieBlox has since become a sensation, securing nationwide and
international distribution deals. The company also made history as the first small business to ever air
a commercial at the Super Bowl.
This paper will analyse the communication strategies used by GoldieBlox in its Kickstarter
petition (which officially launched the product) and in its Princess Machine ad (which opened its
doors to the Super Bowl). An analysis of the company’s crisis communications strategy – regarding a
copyright dispute with the band Beastie Boys – will also be discussed.
Promoting GoldieBlox
The Kickstarter petition
Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Every project sets a funding goal and deadline,
and if people are convinced to pledge some money, the project will start. In September 2012, Sterling
launched a petition at Kickstarter to get funding of $150,000 for the first mass production of
GoldieBlox. The said petition was accompanied by a three-minute video where Sterling spoke to
potential backers.
Persuasive techniques
What Jefferson Bates called ‘audience analysis’ is a pivotal requirement in persuasive
communication. Know your audience and you will have a much better chance of connecting with
them (Bates, 1985). In the petition video, Sterling spoke to her core audience – working professionals
and/or artists who are parents, aunts, uncles and friends of parents of young girls – as revealed in
this transcript:
‘Help me build this for your daughter, your niece, your friend’s daughter…’
Sterling framed her message in a way that taps into the reasoning and emotions of parents with
young daughters, and adults with young girls they care about. She presented her case using
Aristotle’s ingredients to persuasion, otherwise known as the three appeals or modes of proof: ethos,
logos and pathos.
Ethos, or the ethical appeal, aims to convince an audience of the speaker’s credibility or character
(“Ethos, pathos and logos”, 2013.). Sterling opened the video with a clear sense of ethos:
‘I’m Debbie. I’m an engineer from Stanford. I have always been bothered by how few
women were in my program, so I decided to do something about it.’
‘I’m starting a toy company called GoldieBlox to get little girls to love engineering as
much as I do. ’
As a result, Sterling displayed credibility: her education from one of the best universities in the
world, and her passion to change the equation in the male-dominated field of engineering. Her ethos
ensured the audience that she is someone they can trust when it comes to STEM projects for girls.
Logos, or the appeal to logic, aims to appeal to an audience by use of logic or reason (“Ethos,
pathos and logos”, 2013). Here, Sterling cites facts:
‘Legos, K’Nex, Lincoln Logs… these toys develop spatial skills and get kids interested in
engineering and science.’
’89 per cent of engineers are male, and yet 50 per cent of the population are female.’
To provide more logos, Sterling showed how the product works and cited benefits to children’s
verbal and spatial skills. She then showed, as evidence, a few video clips of young girls testing the
prototype toy and enjoying building.
Pathos, or the emotional appeal, aims to appeal to emotions. Speakers use pathos to invoke
sympathy from an audience, to make the audience feel what the speaker wants them to feel … or to
inspire anger from an audience, perhaps in order to prompt action (“Ethos, pathos and logos”, 2013).
Using pathos, Sterling appealed to parental guilt by saying that girls deserve more than what they
already have:
‘I want your little girl to play GoldieBlox because, as much as she loves dress-up and
princess stuff … there’s so much more to her than that.’
‘ Any girl you know is so much more than a princess… She can explore every opportunity
and become anything she wants to be when she grows up.’
‘If we want to live in a better world, we need girls building things, too… girls solving
problems.’
Parents naturally want their children to thrive in a world of possibilities. Still capitalising on parental
emotions, Sterling prompted her audience into action:
‘Help me build GoldieBlox so that our girls can help build the future.’
Sterling also used enthymemes, another persuasive rhetorical device used since Aristotle’s time. In
an enthymeme the speaker is building an argument based on one or more unstated assumptions. In
the last quote, Sterling’s unstated assumptions are the following:
 GoldieBlox should be funded so that it becomes available to girls.
 GoldieBlox will teach basic STEM skills to girls and will get them to be interested in STEM fields.
 If girls get interested in STEM, they will pursue careers in these fields, which are valuable in
building industries of the future.
Effectiveness
The petition hit its goal of $150,000 in just five days. After a month, GoldieBlox raised $285,881 from
5519 backers. Production followed, raising the number of units from 5000 to 40,000.
The fact that GoldieBlox was overfunded by 191% was a huge success in crowd-funding, thus
attracting positive media attention, some of which are the following:
10.16.12 The GuardianUK Meet GoldieBlox: the toy designed to get girls interested
in engineering
10.15.12 Forbes Beauty, Brains and Business: Engineering Girls for a Man's World
10.11.12 Forbes Inspiring Girls to Become Engineers: Meet GoldieBlox
9.25.12 VentureBeat Stanford engineer launches GoldieBlox, a toy to inspire young
girls to be engineers
9.21.12 Huffington Post Can GoldieBlox, AKA Legos For Girls, Entice More Girls To
Be Engineers?
9.20.12 Fast Company GoldieBlox: A Toy And Book Series Designed To Get Young
Girls Interested In Engineering
9.19.12 Wired GoldieBlox Hits a Sweet Spot for Getting Girls Excited About
Engineering
9.18.12 TechCrunch Hands-On With GoldieBlox, The Toy That Wants To Make Girls
Fall In Love With Engineering
9.18.12 The Atlantic Can a Kids' Toy Bring More Women Into Engineering?
With the continued media hype, Sterling had been interviewed by several mass media outfits, and
GoldieBlox saw its campaign success translated into profits. In a Huffington Post interview (Dunn,
2013), Sterling revealed that the company received tens of thousands of pre-orders, bringing up to
$1 million in revenue in just a few months. In July 2013, GoldieBlox signed a nationwide distribution
deal with Toys R Us, the largest toy retailer in the US.
Princess Machine ad campaign
This video commercial was launched via YouTube in November 2013. In the ad, three girls who are
getting bored watching the usual princess show on TV leaped up and used their toys to create a Rube
Goldberg machine—an overly engineered series of contraptions performing simple tasks in an
indirect way—that created a chain reaction through at least two houses, in the end changing the TV
channel into one that says ‘GoldieBlox, toys for future engineers’. Girls, a Beastie Boys song, served as
the background music, but the children were singing a new version of the lyrics. Here are excerpts
from both versions:
Persuasive Techniques
Connecting to an audience via online channels is a tricky art. There is a vast amount of ‘noise’ the
sender has to overcome for the message to reach its intended receiver, in this case the web content.
In Shannon and Weaver’s Transmission Model of communication, ‘noise’ is any interference in
communication that affects the quality of the message. On YouTube alone, one hundred hours of
video are posted every minute (‘More than 1 billion unique users’, n.d.). Hence, a YouTube video has
to catch audience interest to cut through the noise.
Audience interest is garnered by carefully planning and utilising strategies of attention, one of
which is novelty (Rothwell, 2007), which GoldieBlox in the title:
GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg & Beastie Boys ‘Princess Machine’ (a concert for girls)
Generally, a Rube Goldberg machine is in itself a novelty. A simple search of ‘Rube Goldberg’ on
YouTube will generate videos with millions of views. Add ‘Beastie Boys’—legendary hip hop band in
the US, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awardee—and you are sure to attract views. Moreover, the
band was a pop culture icon for the target audience: young parents, those in their 30s and 40s, and
who were once kids singing the band’s hits in the 1980s. The combination of ‘Beastie Boys’, ‘princess
machine’ and ‘Rube Goldberg’, terms that are generally not associated with one another, creates a
sense of outrageousness, of novelty – a search engine optimisation tactic – that invites clicks and
shares.
To sustain audience interest, novelty is again used, this time through parody in the content. A
parody is a rhetorical device that imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a
particular literary work in order to make fun of the same features (“Literary and rhetorical devices”,
2008). The original lyrics of Girls are replete with sexist concepts, limiting girls to domestic duties. By
retooling the song as an anthem of girl power, GoldieBlox mocks the sexist message of the original.
The result was a message that resonates to the audience.
Which brings us to another persuasive technique in the ad: audience empowerment. Successful
campaigns from the past harnessed and empowered an audience; campaigners of the Black Power
movement in America in the 1960s understood how to use emotion and language to draw on the
pride of their constituency, and also how crucial a clear, emphatic and imaginative slogan was to gain
the commitment of blacks throughout America (Hatcher & McCarthy, 2002). GoldieBlox employed
this strategy through the following slogans:
‘Toys for future engineers.’
‘We are all more than princess maids.’
‘Don’t underestimate girls!’
Most parents of young girls naturally want their daughters to pursue high demand careers in the
future; empowering messages like these resonate to them.
Effectiveness
The ad was a viral success, earning widespread media attention and garnering more than eight
million views on YouTube in one week. According to Visible Measures, a company measuring video
content consumption of users, the ad’s true reach by the end of 2013 was 10,794,675 – making it to
the top five start-up campaigns of the year. It was featured on the TODAY Show and Good Morning
America, the highest-rating morning shows in the US. The ad was also tweeted by Chelsea Clinton,
Ellen de Generes and other influencers in social media.
Catching influencers’ attention is a critical in cutting through the noise of web content. They help
spread your message virally. Influences have the power to affect purchase decisions of others
because of their (real or perceived) authority, knowledge, position, or relationship (Business
Dictionary, n.d.). In the book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000) called this the ‘Law of the
Few… where the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of
people with a particular and rare set of social gifts’. Gladwell referred to what the economists call the
‘80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done
by 20 per cent of the participants’ (“Pareto principle,” 2014).
The ad’s title and message caught the attention of influencers, whose tweets and Facebook
reposts helped in spreading the word about GoldieBlox. Gladwell would easily categorise de Generes
as a ‘connector’, or someone ‘with a special gift for bringing the world together’ and ‘has social
networks of over one hundred people’ (Gladwell, 2000). So far, de Generes has 29.2 million Twitter
followers.
Aside from the contribution of influencers, I believe that the optimised title of the ad and the
ensuing controversy with the Beasties (which will be discussed in the next section) helped publicise
GoldieBlox’s message. A simple search on Google Trends shows that audience interest for GoldieBlox
peaked in November 2013, back when the ad title included ‘Beastie Boys’ in it, the same month when
influencers made a buzz of the company, and when the issue of copyright and trademark
infringements surfaced.
I doubt that the infringements were a mere oversight of a young entrepreneur. Before Sterling
founded GoldieBlox, she worked as a marketing director and a brand strategist – and would have
known that catchy titles, however misleading, get the clicks. On the other hand, I believe that the new
lyrics are a genuine expression of the company’s message, which opened the conversation on gender
roles, and sustained the interest of influencers and the public.
This sustained interest also played well for GoldieBlox. Despite the bad publicity that followed the
controversy with the Beasties, GoldieBlox still made it to the final four of Intuit’s first ‘Small Business
Big Game’ competition, announced late November. The prize was a 30-second Super Bowl
commercial, worth an estimated $4.5 million, according to Forbes. The competition initially received
a pool of 15,000 candidates. The final winner was selected through public voting in December, and
the people voted for GoldieBlox.
PR crisis: Legal battle with the Beasties
Upon learning of the ad in November, lawyers of the Beastie Boys ‘wrote GoldieBlox the usual cease-
and-desist letter, claiming copyright infringement and suggesting that the unauthorised use of the
Beastie’s intellectual property was a “big problem” that has a “very significant impact” on the band’
(Hunter, 2014). The Beasties also accused the toy company of trademark infringement for using the
name of the band to promote the ad.
When this news came out, GoldieBlox’s business ethics was questioned, affecting its public
relations. Let us see how GoldieBlox fared by the ‘textbook responses to PR disasters’ (Eunson,
2012):
1. Deal with it as soon as possible.
GoldieBlox immediately filed for a declaratory and injunctive relief in a California federal court,
asking the court to declare that no copyright infringement occurred and that the video qualifies as
‘fair use’ (Erickson, 2013). This was a logical move as the injunction ‘only seeks for an official
declaration of the matter’ (“Injunctive relief law”, n.d.), in this case, whether the fair use argument is
valid. It is like two students with opposing views, asking their teacher to weigh in the matter and
declare in class which side is more reasonable. However, many found GoldieBlox’s action
provocative, especially when the Beasties fired back with this open letter:
‘When we tried simply to ask how and why our song “Girls” had been used in your ad
without our permission, YOU sued US.’
GoldieBlox did not clarify what their legal action was about. As a result, headlines went on to say the
company ‘sued’ the band:
11.22.13 SPIN Toy company sues Beastie Boys
11.22.13 Mercury News Oakland Toy startup GoldieBlox sues hip-hop group Beastie
Boys
11.26.13 SPIN Columbia Journalism Review GoldieBlox picks unfair fight with the
Beastie Boys.
2. Identify your stakeholders.
GoldieBlox ignored the haters and instead reached out to the primary stakeholder, the Beasties,
through an open letter. It was done so presumably to include in the conversation the other
stakeholder – the wider public, who are the consumers. Here is an excerpt:
‘We don’t want to fight with you. We love you and we are actually huge fans.
When we made our parody version of your song, ‘Girls’, we did it with the best of
intentions. We wanted to transform it into a powerful anthem for girls…
…Our hearts sank last week when your lawyers called us with threats that we took very
seriously. As a small company, we had no choice but to stand up for ourselves…
Since actions speak louder than words, we have already removed the song from our
video…
We don’t want to spend our time fighting legal battles. We want to inspire the next
generation. We want to be good role models. And we want to be your friends.’
Note, however, that the word ‘apology’ or ‘sorry’ was never mentioned. In a playful use of rhetoric,
GoldieBlox again attempted to appeal to pathos by making itself appear the underdog here: ‘your
lawyers called us with threats’; ‘we had… to stand up for ourselves’. And through the open letter,
GoldieBlox was able to reiterate in public the social cause of the parody.
3. Be upfront about what you do and do not know. Again, what GoldieBlox could have done was
clarify the facts of its legal action, but the company kept silent instead.
4. Be available. Aside from the open letter to the Beasties, GoldieBlox kept silent about the issue
and moved on with other aspects of their business.
5. Move on. The company rectified its error by replacing the Beastie song, and reiterated its brand
message through the letter to the band, saying:
‘We want to inspire the next generation. We want to be good role models.’
It appears that GoldieBlox did not have a clear PR strategy in handling this issue. It erred on caution
by not responding quickly enough and not clarifying the facts of the legal case. This PR crisis invited
some hostile media attention. Reuters journalist Felix Salmon (2013) commented that the company
was behaving ‘like Silicon Valley bullies’, and was ‘faux-naïveté at its worst, deliberately ignoring the
fact that Girls, the original song, is itself a parody of machismo rap.’ (I am less interested in the latter
argument since there is no strong evidence that the original song was indeed a parody itself.) This PR
crisis also spurred on criticisms on the product itself; Jezebel believes (Faircloth, 2014) GoldieBlox’s
marketing campaign was better than the product. As a result, poor reviews from customers poured
in on Amazon. Even old ones were republished, like this one in Mascola.com:
Even so, this had become a battle of messages, of girl power vs macho culture. Even if it were true
that the original Girls intended to mock machismo rap, the Beasties have already been cast in a
negative light because of the literal meaning of their song. Despite the PR crisis, I agree with TheLi.st
founder Rachel Sklar, who wrote ‘GoldieBlox has the decided PR edge— righteously proclaiming
themselves on the side of progress, equality, and a nation of adorable little girls. This leaves the
Beastie Boys as, sure, the artists who created the song — but also the artists who said that girls were
for making their beds, doing their laundry, and satisfying their urges.’
Hence, girl power won. The public voted for GoldieBlox to broadcast a commercial at the Super
Bowl 2014, ‘the most watched TV event in history with 111.5 million viewers tuned to the game. The
Super Bowl exposure opened another nationwide distribution deal for GoldieBlox, this time with the
retail giant Target. Today, GoldieBlox is also distributed in the UK, Ireland and Australia. In the battle
of messages, GoldieBlox emerged stronger.
In March this year, GoldieBlox settled the legal case with the Beasties, acquiring a backdated
license for use of the song in exchange of $1 million, to be paid to a charity of the band’s choice
supporting STEM for girls.
The power of narrative
In a saturated world of information, GoldieBlox stood out by consistently using the power of
narrative. The first rule of narrative marketing is to find the conversation, and GoldieBlox did just
that (Qudosi, 2013). In Sterling’s media appearances, she is consistently introduced as the Stanford-
trained engineer troubled by the small number of women in engineering and sciences, and the ‘pink
aisles’ in toy stores, and who challenged this phenomenon by designing a product that may lure
young girls into STEM. By pairing a market gap with a budding conversation, GoldieBlox found an
audience willing to turn down the noise and listen. There had been sound criticisms from experts
and the public as well, but GoldieBlox triumphed by making the issue a topic of mainstream
conversation.
Another concept is the use of narrative advertising. People are naturally drawn to narratives, and
advertisers know this. GoldieBlox did not show much about the product in its video ads, and instead
used plots: young girls sick of the princess culture, leaping up to create complex machines out of toys,
and—inspired by their cleverness—ends the story with a bold girl-empowering message. In a Johns
Hopkins analysis of 108 Super Bowl ads, researchers Keith Quesenberry and Michael Coolsen found
that people rated commercials with dramatic plotlines higher than ads without a clear plot. ‘People
think it's all about sex or humor or animals, but what we've found is that the underbelly of a great
commercial is whether it tells a story or not,’ Quesenberry said (Rosen, 2014). Therefore, regardless
of the content of the ad, the structure of that content predicted its success (Monarth, 2014).
Finally, GoldieBlox leveraged the power of narrative by becoming the narrative itself. After the
Super Bowl commercial, we realise an underdog story had just unfolded – a small business ‘rising up
to become the game-changing, status-quo challenging, industry… outlier that that fills our newsfeeds’
(Antonelli, 2014). A more interesting story may emerge—the one with less pink aisles and more
female engineers and scientists—and in that narrative, I’m hooked.
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  • 2. Background In recent years, women have made more progress in the workplace and public life, and many men have taken on a greater share of domestic chores. But when it comes to children, gender stereotypes are rigidly enforced through increased segregation of toys, clothing and even books for boys and girls. Toys stores now have pink aisles filled with toys specifically marketed to girls: dolls, cookery sets and pink toys; the aisles for boys are filled with remote control cars, building kits, sports items and science kits. In the pink aisles, too few toys teach basic science skills and if there are any, these are repackaged in pink. A basic tenet of early education is that children learn and develop skills and interests through play. Many parents, psychologists and sociologists believe the increase in gender-specific toy marketing—in catalogues, advertising, online retail and in store—limits children's choices about the type of toys they can play with and reinforces traditional gender stereotypes, which affects what they choose to study and the roles they play as adults (Kleinman, 2013). Indeed, women are vastly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs; this has been the case throughout the past decade, even as college-educated women have increased their share of the overall workforce (Economics and Statistics Administration, 2011). These are the sentiments that urged San Francisco-based engineer Debbie Sterling to design a toy and start a company called GoldieBlox to get girls interested in STEM fields. She lamented the absence of female STEM role models in popular culture. Boys look up to characters like Bob the Builder, Bill Nye the Science Guy and Jimmy Neutron – characters with high IQs and who invent things. On the other hand, girls have Barbie and 11 official Disney Princesses to choose from, most of whom are waiting for their Prince Charming. With GoldieBlox – a book series that comes with construction kits – girls can have a STEM role model in Goldie, the main character in the book. The toy was inspired by Lego, the world’s most popular construction toy, but GoldieBlox incorporates building with reading. In Goldie’s stories, she encounters problems that can be solved by building different machines. Young readers are invited to build along with Goldie, using the construction set that comes with the book. GoldieBlox’s mission is to get girls building. On its website, the company says that ‘by tapping into girls' strong verbal skills, Goldie’s story and the construction set will bolster confidence in spatial
  • 3. skills while giving young inventors the tools they need to build and create amazing things. ’ It positions itself as the engineering toy for girls, a new product that aims to ‘disrupt the pink aisle’. GoldieBlox is made for girls aged four to nine, but marketing is primarily targeted at adults who have the buying power and who want young girls to succeed—specifically the parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts of these young girls. Sterling launched a petition for funding of the first mass production of GoldieBlox in 2012. After getting funded by backers, GoldieBlox has since become a sensation, securing nationwide and international distribution deals. The company also made history as the first small business to ever air a commercial at the Super Bowl. This paper will analyse the communication strategies used by GoldieBlox in its Kickstarter petition (which officially launched the product) and in its Princess Machine ad (which opened its doors to the Super Bowl). An analysis of the company’s crisis communications strategy – regarding a copyright dispute with the band Beastie Boys – will also be discussed. Promoting GoldieBlox The Kickstarter petition Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Every project sets a funding goal and deadline, and if people are convinced to pledge some money, the project will start. In September 2012, Sterling launched a petition at Kickstarter to get funding of $150,000 for the first mass production of GoldieBlox. The said petition was accompanied by a three-minute video where Sterling spoke to potential backers. Persuasive techniques What Jefferson Bates called ‘audience analysis’ is a pivotal requirement in persuasive communication. Know your audience and you will have a much better chance of connecting with them (Bates, 1985). In the petition video, Sterling spoke to her core audience – working professionals and/or artists who are parents, aunts, uncles and friends of parents of young girls – as revealed in this transcript: ‘Help me build this for your daughter, your niece, your friend’s daughter…’ Sterling framed her message in a way that taps into the reasoning and emotions of parents with young daughters, and adults with young girls they care about. She presented her case using
  • 4. Aristotle’s ingredients to persuasion, otherwise known as the three appeals or modes of proof: ethos, logos and pathos. Ethos, or the ethical appeal, aims to convince an audience of the speaker’s credibility or character (“Ethos, pathos and logos”, 2013.). Sterling opened the video with a clear sense of ethos: ‘I’m Debbie. I’m an engineer from Stanford. I have always been bothered by how few women were in my program, so I decided to do something about it.’ ‘I’m starting a toy company called GoldieBlox to get little girls to love engineering as much as I do. ’ As a result, Sterling displayed credibility: her education from one of the best universities in the world, and her passion to change the equation in the male-dominated field of engineering. Her ethos ensured the audience that she is someone they can trust when it comes to STEM projects for girls. Logos, or the appeal to logic, aims to appeal to an audience by use of logic or reason (“Ethos, pathos and logos”, 2013). Here, Sterling cites facts: ‘Legos, K’Nex, Lincoln Logs… these toys develop spatial skills and get kids interested in engineering and science.’ ’89 per cent of engineers are male, and yet 50 per cent of the population are female.’ To provide more logos, Sterling showed how the product works and cited benefits to children’s verbal and spatial skills. She then showed, as evidence, a few video clips of young girls testing the prototype toy and enjoying building. Pathos, or the emotional appeal, aims to appeal to emotions. Speakers use pathos to invoke sympathy from an audience, to make the audience feel what the speaker wants them to feel … or to inspire anger from an audience, perhaps in order to prompt action (“Ethos, pathos and logos”, 2013). Using pathos, Sterling appealed to parental guilt by saying that girls deserve more than what they already have: ‘I want your little girl to play GoldieBlox because, as much as she loves dress-up and princess stuff … there’s so much more to her than that.’ ‘ Any girl you know is so much more than a princess… She can explore every opportunity and become anything she wants to be when she grows up.’ ‘If we want to live in a better world, we need girls building things, too… girls solving problems.’ Parents naturally want their children to thrive in a world of possibilities. Still capitalising on parental emotions, Sterling prompted her audience into action:
  • 5. ‘Help me build GoldieBlox so that our girls can help build the future.’ Sterling also used enthymemes, another persuasive rhetorical device used since Aristotle’s time. In an enthymeme the speaker is building an argument based on one or more unstated assumptions. In the last quote, Sterling’s unstated assumptions are the following:  GoldieBlox should be funded so that it becomes available to girls.  GoldieBlox will teach basic STEM skills to girls and will get them to be interested in STEM fields.  If girls get interested in STEM, they will pursue careers in these fields, which are valuable in building industries of the future. Effectiveness The petition hit its goal of $150,000 in just five days. After a month, GoldieBlox raised $285,881 from 5519 backers. Production followed, raising the number of units from 5000 to 40,000. The fact that GoldieBlox was overfunded by 191% was a huge success in crowd-funding, thus attracting positive media attention, some of which are the following: 10.16.12 The GuardianUK Meet GoldieBlox: the toy designed to get girls interested in engineering 10.15.12 Forbes Beauty, Brains and Business: Engineering Girls for a Man's World 10.11.12 Forbes Inspiring Girls to Become Engineers: Meet GoldieBlox 9.25.12 VentureBeat Stanford engineer launches GoldieBlox, a toy to inspire young girls to be engineers 9.21.12 Huffington Post Can GoldieBlox, AKA Legos For Girls, Entice More Girls To Be Engineers? 9.20.12 Fast Company GoldieBlox: A Toy And Book Series Designed To Get Young Girls Interested In Engineering 9.19.12 Wired GoldieBlox Hits a Sweet Spot for Getting Girls Excited About Engineering 9.18.12 TechCrunch Hands-On With GoldieBlox, The Toy That Wants To Make Girls Fall In Love With Engineering 9.18.12 The Atlantic Can a Kids' Toy Bring More Women Into Engineering? With the continued media hype, Sterling had been interviewed by several mass media outfits, and GoldieBlox saw its campaign success translated into profits. In a Huffington Post interview (Dunn, 2013), Sterling revealed that the company received tens of thousands of pre-orders, bringing up to
  • 6. $1 million in revenue in just a few months. In July 2013, GoldieBlox signed a nationwide distribution deal with Toys R Us, the largest toy retailer in the US. Princess Machine ad campaign This video commercial was launched via YouTube in November 2013. In the ad, three girls who are getting bored watching the usual princess show on TV leaped up and used their toys to create a Rube Goldberg machine—an overly engineered series of contraptions performing simple tasks in an indirect way—that created a chain reaction through at least two houses, in the end changing the TV channel into one that says ‘GoldieBlox, toys for future engineers’. Girls, a Beastie Boys song, served as the background music, but the children were singing a new version of the lyrics. Here are excerpts from both versions: Persuasive Techniques Connecting to an audience via online channels is a tricky art. There is a vast amount of ‘noise’ the sender has to overcome for the message to reach its intended receiver, in this case the web content. In Shannon and Weaver’s Transmission Model of communication, ‘noise’ is any interference in communication that affects the quality of the message. On YouTube alone, one hundred hours of video are posted every minute (‘More than 1 billion unique users’, n.d.). Hence, a YouTube video has to catch audience interest to cut through the noise.
  • 7. Audience interest is garnered by carefully planning and utilising strategies of attention, one of which is novelty (Rothwell, 2007), which GoldieBlox in the title: GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg & Beastie Boys ‘Princess Machine’ (a concert for girls) Generally, a Rube Goldberg machine is in itself a novelty. A simple search of ‘Rube Goldberg’ on YouTube will generate videos with millions of views. Add ‘Beastie Boys’—legendary hip hop band in the US, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame awardee—and you are sure to attract views. Moreover, the band was a pop culture icon for the target audience: young parents, those in their 30s and 40s, and who were once kids singing the band’s hits in the 1980s. The combination of ‘Beastie Boys’, ‘princess machine’ and ‘Rube Goldberg’, terms that are generally not associated with one another, creates a sense of outrageousness, of novelty – a search engine optimisation tactic – that invites clicks and shares. To sustain audience interest, novelty is again used, this time through parody in the content. A parody is a rhetorical device that imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work in order to make fun of the same features (“Literary and rhetorical devices”, 2008). The original lyrics of Girls are replete with sexist concepts, limiting girls to domestic duties. By retooling the song as an anthem of girl power, GoldieBlox mocks the sexist message of the original. The result was a message that resonates to the audience. Which brings us to another persuasive technique in the ad: audience empowerment. Successful campaigns from the past harnessed and empowered an audience; campaigners of the Black Power movement in America in the 1960s understood how to use emotion and language to draw on the pride of their constituency, and also how crucial a clear, emphatic and imaginative slogan was to gain the commitment of blacks throughout America (Hatcher & McCarthy, 2002). GoldieBlox employed this strategy through the following slogans: ‘Toys for future engineers.’ ‘We are all more than princess maids.’ ‘Don’t underestimate girls!’ Most parents of young girls naturally want their daughters to pursue high demand careers in the future; empowering messages like these resonate to them. Effectiveness The ad was a viral success, earning widespread media attention and garnering more than eight million views on YouTube in one week. According to Visible Measures, a company measuring video
  • 8. content consumption of users, the ad’s true reach by the end of 2013 was 10,794,675 – making it to the top five start-up campaigns of the year. It was featured on the TODAY Show and Good Morning America, the highest-rating morning shows in the US. The ad was also tweeted by Chelsea Clinton, Ellen de Generes and other influencers in social media. Catching influencers’ attention is a critical in cutting through the noise of web content. They help spread your message virally. Influences have the power to affect purchase decisions of others because of their (real or perceived) authority, knowledge, position, or relationship (Business Dictionary, n.d.). In the book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000) called this the ‘Law of the Few… where the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts’. Gladwell referred to what the economists call the ‘80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 per cent of the participants’ (“Pareto principle,” 2014). The ad’s title and message caught the attention of influencers, whose tweets and Facebook reposts helped in spreading the word about GoldieBlox. Gladwell would easily categorise de Generes as a ‘connector’, or someone ‘with a special gift for bringing the world together’ and ‘has social networks of over one hundred people’ (Gladwell, 2000). So far, de Generes has 29.2 million Twitter followers.
  • 9. Aside from the contribution of influencers, I believe that the optimised title of the ad and the ensuing controversy with the Beasties (which will be discussed in the next section) helped publicise GoldieBlox’s message. A simple search on Google Trends shows that audience interest for GoldieBlox peaked in November 2013, back when the ad title included ‘Beastie Boys’ in it, the same month when influencers made a buzz of the company, and when the issue of copyright and trademark infringements surfaced. I doubt that the infringements were a mere oversight of a young entrepreneur. Before Sterling founded GoldieBlox, she worked as a marketing director and a brand strategist – and would have known that catchy titles, however misleading, get the clicks. On the other hand, I believe that the new lyrics are a genuine expression of the company’s message, which opened the conversation on gender roles, and sustained the interest of influencers and the public. This sustained interest also played well for GoldieBlox. Despite the bad publicity that followed the controversy with the Beasties, GoldieBlox still made it to the final four of Intuit’s first ‘Small Business Big Game’ competition, announced late November. The prize was a 30-second Super Bowl commercial, worth an estimated $4.5 million, according to Forbes. The competition initially received a pool of 15,000 candidates. The final winner was selected through public voting in December, and the people voted for GoldieBlox.
  • 10. PR crisis: Legal battle with the Beasties Upon learning of the ad in November, lawyers of the Beastie Boys ‘wrote GoldieBlox the usual cease- and-desist letter, claiming copyright infringement and suggesting that the unauthorised use of the Beastie’s intellectual property was a “big problem” that has a “very significant impact” on the band’ (Hunter, 2014). The Beasties also accused the toy company of trademark infringement for using the name of the band to promote the ad. When this news came out, GoldieBlox’s business ethics was questioned, affecting its public relations. Let us see how GoldieBlox fared by the ‘textbook responses to PR disasters’ (Eunson, 2012): 1. Deal with it as soon as possible. GoldieBlox immediately filed for a declaratory and injunctive relief in a California federal court, asking the court to declare that no copyright infringement occurred and that the video qualifies as ‘fair use’ (Erickson, 2013). This was a logical move as the injunction ‘only seeks for an official declaration of the matter’ (“Injunctive relief law”, n.d.), in this case, whether the fair use argument is valid. It is like two students with opposing views, asking their teacher to weigh in the matter and declare in class which side is more reasonable. However, many found GoldieBlox’s action provocative, especially when the Beasties fired back with this open letter: ‘When we tried simply to ask how and why our song “Girls” had been used in your ad without our permission, YOU sued US.’ GoldieBlox did not clarify what their legal action was about. As a result, headlines went on to say the company ‘sued’ the band: 11.22.13 SPIN Toy company sues Beastie Boys 11.22.13 Mercury News Oakland Toy startup GoldieBlox sues hip-hop group Beastie Boys 11.26.13 SPIN Columbia Journalism Review GoldieBlox picks unfair fight with the Beastie Boys. 2. Identify your stakeholders. GoldieBlox ignored the haters and instead reached out to the primary stakeholder, the Beasties, through an open letter. It was done so presumably to include in the conversation the other stakeholder – the wider public, who are the consumers. Here is an excerpt: ‘We don’t want to fight with you. We love you and we are actually huge fans.
  • 11. When we made our parody version of your song, ‘Girls’, we did it with the best of intentions. We wanted to transform it into a powerful anthem for girls… …Our hearts sank last week when your lawyers called us with threats that we took very seriously. As a small company, we had no choice but to stand up for ourselves… Since actions speak louder than words, we have already removed the song from our video… We don’t want to spend our time fighting legal battles. We want to inspire the next generation. We want to be good role models. And we want to be your friends.’ Note, however, that the word ‘apology’ or ‘sorry’ was never mentioned. In a playful use of rhetoric, GoldieBlox again attempted to appeal to pathos by making itself appear the underdog here: ‘your lawyers called us with threats’; ‘we had… to stand up for ourselves’. And through the open letter, GoldieBlox was able to reiterate in public the social cause of the parody. 3. Be upfront about what you do and do not know. Again, what GoldieBlox could have done was clarify the facts of its legal action, but the company kept silent instead. 4. Be available. Aside from the open letter to the Beasties, GoldieBlox kept silent about the issue and moved on with other aspects of their business. 5. Move on. The company rectified its error by replacing the Beastie song, and reiterated its brand message through the letter to the band, saying: ‘We want to inspire the next generation. We want to be good role models.’ It appears that GoldieBlox did not have a clear PR strategy in handling this issue. It erred on caution by not responding quickly enough and not clarifying the facts of the legal case. This PR crisis invited some hostile media attention. Reuters journalist Felix Salmon (2013) commented that the company was behaving ‘like Silicon Valley bullies’, and was ‘faux-naïveté at its worst, deliberately ignoring the fact that Girls, the original song, is itself a parody of machismo rap.’ (I am less interested in the latter argument since there is no strong evidence that the original song was indeed a parody itself.) This PR crisis also spurred on criticisms on the product itself; Jezebel believes (Faircloth, 2014) GoldieBlox’s marketing campaign was better than the product. As a result, poor reviews from customers poured in on Amazon. Even old ones were republished, like this one in Mascola.com:
  • 12. Even so, this had become a battle of messages, of girl power vs macho culture. Even if it were true that the original Girls intended to mock machismo rap, the Beasties have already been cast in a negative light because of the literal meaning of their song. Despite the PR crisis, I agree with TheLi.st founder Rachel Sklar, who wrote ‘GoldieBlox has the decided PR edge— righteously proclaiming themselves on the side of progress, equality, and a nation of adorable little girls. This leaves the Beastie Boys as, sure, the artists who created the song — but also the artists who said that girls were for making their beds, doing their laundry, and satisfying their urges.’ Hence, girl power won. The public voted for GoldieBlox to broadcast a commercial at the Super Bowl 2014, ‘the most watched TV event in history with 111.5 million viewers tuned to the game. The Super Bowl exposure opened another nationwide distribution deal for GoldieBlox, this time with the retail giant Target. Today, GoldieBlox is also distributed in the UK, Ireland and Australia. In the battle of messages, GoldieBlox emerged stronger. In March this year, GoldieBlox settled the legal case with the Beasties, acquiring a backdated license for use of the song in exchange of $1 million, to be paid to a charity of the band’s choice supporting STEM for girls.
  • 13. The power of narrative In a saturated world of information, GoldieBlox stood out by consistently using the power of narrative. The first rule of narrative marketing is to find the conversation, and GoldieBlox did just that (Qudosi, 2013). In Sterling’s media appearances, she is consistently introduced as the Stanford- trained engineer troubled by the small number of women in engineering and sciences, and the ‘pink aisles’ in toy stores, and who challenged this phenomenon by designing a product that may lure young girls into STEM. By pairing a market gap with a budding conversation, GoldieBlox found an audience willing to turn down the noise and listen. There had been sound criticisms from experts and the public as well, but GoldieBlox triumphed by making the issue a topic of mainstream conversation. Another concept is the use of narrative advertising. People are naturally drawn to narratives, and advertisers know this. GoldieBlox did not show much about the product in its video ads, and instead used plots: young girls sick of the princess culture, leaping up to create complex machines out of toys, and—inspired by their cleverness—ends the story with a bold girl-empowering message. In a Johns Hopkins analysis of 108 Super Bowl ads, researchers Keith Quesenberry and Michael Coolsen found that people rated commercials with dramatic plotlines higher than ads without a clear plot. ‘People think it's all about sex or humor or animals, but what we've found is that the underbelly of a great commercial is whether it tells a story or not,’ Quesenberry said (Rosen, 2014). Therefore, regardless of the content of the ad, the structure of that content predicted its success (Monarth, 2014). Finally, GoldieBlox leveraged the power of narrative by becoming the narrative itself. After the Super Bowl commercial, we realise an underdog story had just unfolded – a small business ‘rising up to become the game-changing, status-quo challenging, industry… outlier that that fills our newsfeeds’ (Antonelli, 2014). A more interesting story may emerge—the one with less pink aisles and more female engineers and scientists—and in that narrative, I’m hooked.
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