Tag Archives: christmas ads

November’s best ads are mostly Christmas ads – next year it’ll be October’s probably as these are breaking ever earlier and earlier – and there’ve been a lot. The Mother/Iceland/Greenpeace ‘Rang-Utan’ edit has gained the most views early on and, ...

Adam&eveDDB is taking us to H&M’s Hotel Mauritz this Christmas with a series of six short ads directed by PrettyBird’s Matt Piedmont, culminating on December 23. It’s not quite the Bates Motel but there are some pretty odd doings. Here ...

Here are two more Santa-themed Christmas ads that aren’t trying to sell us anything, first up London creative agency Aesop for The Childhood Trust. It seems that 700,000 London children are living in poverty, which is pretty shaming, and here’s ...

Adam&eveDDB’s John Lewis Christmas ad featuring Elton John has got the nation talking and it’s also inspired film maker Phil Beastall to release this, which certainly appears to have got the nation watching with nearly seven million views so far. ...

The&Partnership’s Matt Deacon and Ben Fallows (below), the team behind Argos’ ‘Christmas Fool’ campaign, are keeping an eye on the Christmas ads for us. This week’s pick is Vodafone. Tim from the office, Bilbo Baggins, Doctor Watson…and now the muppet ...

How many times should you expect someone to watch a commercial, to get the point over? Here’s Apple’s Christmas effort from TBWA’s Media Arts Lab – ‘Share Your Gifts’ – plugging (I think) Macbooks – pretty expensive Christmas prezzie. Then ...

For most of this decade, the interest around Christmas ads has centred on John Lewis and whether any of its retail rivals can match it. 2018 looked like it was going to be more of the same. Then came Rang-Tan. ...

If you’re a keen tweeter named John Lewis you may be enveloped in the tweet storm that follows each John Lewis Christmas ad. Even if you live in Blacksburg, Virginia. This John Lewis enters the department store tweet fray so ...

Been a bit short of Santas and reindeers this Christmas (and we still miss Marks & Spencer’s Mrs Claus) but McDonald’s and Leo Burnett ride to the rescue with “reindeer treats” (no, not a reindeer burger), a welcome break from ...