Coty Expands Digital Strategy with Echo Show

Coty has teamed with Amazon to launch “Let’s Get Ready”—billed as a “new visual skill” designed specifically for Echo Show, Amazon’s first Echo device with a screen.  The strategic choice of Echo Show and the Alexa voice service combines Coty’s focus on voice-driven beauty services with visuals, which are critical in beauty, said Coty.

Let’s Get Ready brings on demand, occasion-based look planning fine-tuned by personal attributes such as hair, eye and skin color. The skill will be available in the UK on the Echo Show as well as all other Echo devices this month.

“Digital innovation with a focus on voice and virtual assistants is a key part of our digital strategy as we aim to bring consumers frictionless beauty experiences,” said Jason Forbes, Coty chief digital and media officer. “We’re thrilled to be leading the market with the introduction of a visual beauty skill in the U.K., inspiring consumers to both hear and see new beauty looks as well as step-by-step tutorials. Further, this skill allows us to deliver an authentic and personalized experience for beauty enthusiasts that happens near real time, delivering customized looks in the context of a person’s lifestyle and personal attributes.”

Let’s Get Ready is a personalized beauty offering that can deliver to over 2,000 unique combinations of hair, eye and skin color, as well as event type. Based on a person’s unique attributes, the skill will serve up curated looks, visual ‘how to’s’ and quick tips, along with recommended hero products from Coty’s Consumer Beauty portfolio: Clairol, Rimmel, Max Factor, Bourjois and Sally Hansen.

Users have the ability to add products from each look directly to their Alexa shopping list. Let’s Get Ready can also sync with a person’s Facebook calendar to proactively suggest looks for upcoming events and enhance the ‘personal beauty assistant’ experience too.