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Fed up with Christmas ads already? Actually I read somewhere that this year the ads were more popular than the programmes – but they’re always saying that. They’re shorter anyway – most of them. Probably says more about the programmes. ...

BBH is doing turkey trauma for Tesco this Christmas, showing the various ways you can cock up the pesky giant bird. Tesco is also donating £1 for every fresh turkey sold to food bank charities FareShare and the Trussell Trust. ...

We all use Amazon but is it loveable? After all founder Jeff Bezos is now, according to some estimates, the world’s richest. He must be taking us, or someone else, for a ride somewhere mustn’t he? Lucky Generals is in ...

Marks & Spencer (does anyone still call it that, even the company?) is betting Christmas on a tie-up with the new Paddington 2 film – not a very imaginative name but it seems we have a new franchise on the ...

We like a bit of reality at Christmas – not too much mind – and Talk Talk has been running an unscripted series of ads all year through CHI telling us that this, unscripted, “stuff matters.” Even more at Christmas ...

Argos, now owned by Sainsbury’s, is manfully battling the mighty Amazon in the delivery stakes. So, according to agency CHI&Partners, it’s super speedy – ‘Go Argos.’ And, as it’s Christmas, Santa’s little helpers (elves, gnomes?) are working their socks off ...

Do hobbits fall in love? No, because their mobile data runs out. Let’s try again. Martin Freeman, who plays hobbit Bilbo Baggins (and Sherlock’s Dr Watson) has been bumbling through a series of ads for Vodafone this year, courtesy of ...

They do warn you against working with children and animals, maybe your own staff should join the list of terrors. That’s who appears in Currys PC World’s new Christmas campaign from AMV BBDO (as they have in other ads over ...

We’ve had lots of Santas (in various forms) this year, most notably perhaps RKCR/Y&R’s Mrs Claus for Marks & Spencer. We can now reveal that the real Santa is Tesco CEO Dave Lewis who’s been dipping into the retailer’s coffers ...