Tag Archives: christmas ads

We’ve been a little short of Santas in this year’s round of Christmas ads but Coca-Cola has ridden to the rescue, featuring one in a new global campaign running alongside its traditional ‘Holidays Are Coming’ hymn to diesel emissions. ‘What ...

Adam&eveDDB is hymning the ‘moments in between’ for H&M this Christmas – presumably the little things about the festival, not tables groaning with turkeys, crackers and prezzies. So we have some H&M-wearing Millennials (or are they GenZ? Anyway they’re young) ...

Norway’s Posten Norge and Oslo agency Pol are offering a new spin on the ‘Immaculate Conception’ this Christmas, featuring Mary, a comely postman and a suspiciously blond baby. POSTEN "Virgin Birth" from Filip Nilsson on Vimeo. Would probably cause a ...

Here’s a taste of the unexpected for McDonald’s, said to be its first specifically Christmas branding campaign from agency Leo’s Thjnk Tank (which seems to be a bespoke McD agency in Munich) and director Sune Sorenson for TPfilm. Angst runs ...

Christmas/holiday ads have become a kind of global Super Bowl: yes, they’re important for driving vital Christmas sales but they’ve also become the arena for big companies to show off, demonstrating that they can do it bigger and (sometimes) better. ...

1982 was a big year in advertising with the birth of Wieden+Kennedy and Bartle Bogle Hegarty and there was also a rather popular movie, Steven Spielberg’s ET. ET is back in a blockbuster Sky Christmas ad, made by Sky Creative ...

OK, hankies at the ready, here’s Apple’s by now traditional tear jerker for Christmas. Inspired by the Pixar film Up, which passed me by, it’s all about cheering up Grandpa who’s now on his own, with a little help from ...

Comedian and their comedy roasts are appearing more and more often in ads, sometimes to annoying effect – think Nationwide. They may be funny/diverting once but the same joke over and over again pales somewhat. But Greenpeace and agency Nice ...

Spain’s Loteria de Navidad (Christmas Lottery) is also known for its ads, recently featuring some winsome albeit effective animation. Contrapunto BBDO in Madrid is taking a different tack this year, which we might call reluctant reality. Dad feels obliged to ...