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Case files / synthetic spokesperson

Skinny Unlimited Spokesperson

Skinny Mobile and Colenso BBDO digitally cloned a customer as the brand’s deliberately economical AI spokesperson.

Campaign period: 2023Source published: Date not statedArchive entry prepared: 15 September 2026

Retrospective coverage, prepared in September 2026 from the original record.

Campaign still for Skinny’s Unlimited Spokesperson.
BBDO campaign-preview still for Skinny Mobile. Skinny Mobile / Colenso BBDO.

Reported execution

BBDO says Colenso digitally cloned a Skinny customer, Liz, in exchange for lifetime mobile credit and positioned the clone as the brand’s AI face.

Our reading

The campaign makes cost-saving part of the joke, but consent and the permitted future uses of a likeness are the serious production questions.

Evidence boundary

BBDO supports the basic execution. It does not specify the cloning method, duration, safeguards or independently measured campaign effect.

Sources & limits

BBDO agency work page; it describes the clone but does not provide independent effectiveness evidence.

  1. BBDO — Unlimited Spokesperson — source publication date not stated.

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