Dude Wipes debuts pants-dropping brand platform in first ads from Curiosity
Lighthearted brand campaign includes a cheesy ’80s-style jingle and a wiping-themed how-to

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Dude Wipes is out with its first national brand campaign, and they’re the most playfully Dude Wipes-y ads you can imagine—full of butt humor guys everywhere should enjoy.
The work is the first for the brand from Curiosity since the Cincinnati agency was named AOR last year. The first spot is a throwback to cheesy CPG spots from the ’80s, complete with a goofy jingle—and dudes dropping their pants at every possible opportunity.
“We’ve been able to do a pretty decent job at marketing over the years but we felt the brand was missing a catchy sell-slogan to bring it all together and take Dude Wipes to the next level,” said Ryan Meegan, co-founder and CMO of Dude Wipes. “So, we tasked Curiosity with bringing us a ‘big idea’ that would communicate to customers the fun nature of our brand and, more so, the complete clean Dude Wipes provides over toilet paper. They hit it out of the park with ‘Best Clean, Pants Down.’”
A second spot takes place in a classroom, with a motley assortment of students happily learning about the smear-free benefits of the product.
The campaign launches today in cities including Milwaukee, New Orleans, Buffalo, Fresno, St. Louis and Baltimore, as well as digital, social and CTV. The work will go national in January 2024, including national broadcast.
“The Dudes’ challenge to us was clear—make Dude Wipes famous,” said Matt Cragnolin, creative director at Curiosity. “In order to do that, we knew we had to write the catchiest song about grown adults wiping their bum-bums and dropping trou known to man. Remember the ’80s, when a chorus could sing gleefully about confidence and optimism while everyone high-fived each other and gave thumbs ups and it was totally normal and not weird or ironic at all? Well that’s how it feels when you’ve got an immaculately clean manhole and crispy white undies to boot, thanks to Dude Wipes! So, yeah, we did that.”
Ad Age spoke with Meegan on the Marketer’s Brief podcast last fall. Bringing on Curiosity would lead to more national paid media and more help creating social content, he said at the time.
The new spots “are the perfect mix of funny, while enlightening consumers that dry toilet paper is not getting the job done like they think it is,” Meegan said this week. “Dude Wipes get the crap that toilet paper leaves behind.”
Credits
- Date
- Aug 21, 2023
- Client :
- Dude Wipes
- Agency :
- Curiosity
- CMO :
- Ryan Meegan
- Creative Director :
- Andy Anderson
- Creative Director :
- Matt Cragnolin
- Creative Director :
- Pam Fraser
- Account Lead :
- Kelly Kinane
- Account Supervisor :
- Leah Zimmer
- Senior Project Manager :
- Mandy Russell
- Producer :
- Tony Grossman
- CCO :
- Jeff Warman
- Production Company :
- Method & Madness
- Director :
- Chris Woods
- Co-Producer :
- Casey Lock
- Co-Producer :
- Rita Popielak
- Line Producer :
- Darrin Ball
- Editor :
- Andy Mcgraw
- Editor :
- Casey Lock
- Music House :
- The Elements
- Original Music :
- Scott Coleman
- Original Music :
- Sarah Krohn
- Production Team :
- Scouts Honor
- Executive Producer :
- Simon Dragland
- Executive Producer :
- Rita Popielak
- Production Manager :
- Alan Kuipers
- Production Coordinator :
- Kyle Sanderson
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