Problem: Canesten is primarily known as a yeast infection treatment, limiting its role in a much broader women’s health conversation.
Insight: It’s hard to advocate for yourself when you don’t know what to call what you’re experiencing.
Idea: PeriGuide by Canesten. Give women the words for what their bodies are going through.
Canesten- Get Clarity
PeriGuide is a perimenopause app that helps women make sense of the symptoms they’re noticing. Peri guides them through what may be connected and gives them language they can take into conversations with their doctor.
PeriGuideFor International Women’s Day, Peri appears outside hospitals to make an overlooked stage of women’s health impossible to overlook. Plush versions of Peri are handed out on site, each with a QR code linking to PeriGuide.
PR ActivationPeriGuide shows up in places where symptoms are harder to ignore, from gyms and yoga studios to washrooms and change rooms, helping women connect what they’re feeling to perimenopause.
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Retargeted AdsSearch and social meet women in moments of uncertainty, connecting familiar symptoms to perimenopause and directing them back to PeriGuide.
SocialMyth or fact posts correct common misconceptions around perimenopause and direct women back to PeriGuide.
The print ad uses missing words to show how hard perimenopause symptoms can be to name, directing women to PeriGuide to help fill in the gaps.
PrintCW: Sarah Gord
AD: Taylor Moulton

