Tag Archives: christmas ads

‘Tis the season of the Christmas ad. Frosty night-time scenes, glittering magical themes and brightly wrapped boxes fill our screens accompanied by familiar or nostalgic music, all designed to pluck at our heart strings and help us go shopping. The ...

Designer potato brand Albert Bartlett has got a brand new bag – with 20 per cent less plastic – and it’s the hero of its Christmas/holiday campaign, to the tune of James Brown’s seminal song. So we have some more ...

Christmas is to UK adland what the Super Bowl is to the US; big brands, big budgets, and the once-a-year feeling that the press (and maybe even the public) cares about what it makes. Brands spend big at Christmas, but ...

Chilly’s makes reusable bottles for keeping drinks cold and it’s running its first campaign with Uncommon Creative Studio, a Christmas effort inviting the world to “gift responsibly.” Uncommon co-founder Nils Leonard says: “Gift Responsibly. Buy stuff that doesn’t kill the ...

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 ...

H&M is hymning the ‘moments in between’ 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) doing, well, ...

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. ...