Yorkie's 'not for girls' campaign is recalled as a deliberately provocative advertising strategy. In this account, girls and women bought the bar partly to reject the slogan, while boys also responded to the challenge it created. The controversy then generated attention beyond paid advertising, expanding the campaign's reach. The interpretation concerns how exclusionary branding can provoke oppositional consumption and still benefit the seller; it is not a measured account of the campaign's sales data.
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How the Yorkie slogan turned provocation into publicity
A consumer-history aside interprets Yorkie's exclusionary slogan as a provocation that encouraged oppositional buying and generated attention beyond paid advertising.