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Here we go again. It’s Christmas 2021 and with Covid still rife, who knows how it’s all going to turn out? Tesco has tapped into that defiant feeling in many of us — that we are going to have a ...

Aldi gave this the works this Christmas with teaser ads, silly stories planted in a gullible press and all the rest of it. The ad itself is full of in-jokes (usually a disaster) including Aldi’s Cuthbert the Caterpillar, which so ...

Is it worth advertising anything else but, well, Christmas at Christmas when screens are awash with gifting, jingle bells and spins on A Christmas Carol? What you don’t need at Christmas even more than a pair of reindeer socks is ...

Rattling Stick co-founder Ringan Ledwidge, maybe the world’s best commercials director, has died aged just 50. Ledwidge founded Ratttling Stick with Daniel Kleinman and Johnnie Frankel in 2006. Ledwidge’s work included epics for Audi, Sainsbury’s. The Guardian, Levi’s and Puma. ...

Last year, O2 went all John Lewis with its first Christmas ad, but this year agency VCCP has found its own groove for the brand, recruiting a futuristic version of Santa’s elves — the Bubl army — to connect family, ...

John Lewis’s “Unexpected guest” has all the hallmarks of the retailer’s famous Christmas ads, including the downbeat version of a classic pop tune; in this case, “Together in Electric Dreams” by Phil Oakey and Georgio Moroder, reworked by Lola Young. ...

London-based international marketing group MSQ has reported 35% year on year growth for the half year ended August (30% like for like) with EBITDA profits (the preferred measure for acquisitive companies) of £5.8m. Revenue was £42.6m. MSQ had a busy ...

The by now regular appearance of Aldi’s Kevin the Carrot isn’t quite an ad event of John Lewis proportions but maybe it’s becoming so at the Gogglebox end of the market. Another regular is Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge. Here he ...

Mariah Carey, the undisputed Queen of Christmas, is cashing in on the holiday season by teaming up with McDonald’s to present a “12 Days of Christmas” menu starting on 13th December, with one free item given away every day as ...