YouTube has revealed its most popular UK Christmas ads (so far) and top, ahead of the usual suspects, is this for Smyths Toys by McCann Manchester. McCann Manchester also issues the ever-popular Kevin the Carrot for Aldi (in third place ...
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If Christmas is cancelled – locked down anyway – what can you do but look forward to Easter? Mondelez brand Lacta chocolate’s mascot is an Easter Bunny so when Santa, on account of his age and therefore vulnerability to the ...
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Whisky advertising often defeats adland’s finest – recall a honker some years back from adam&eveDDB for Haig Club – but Crispin Porter Bogusky London has given The Glenlivet its best shot with this tale of the founder guarding his not-so-wee ...
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From Jung von Matt/SAGA in LA for pharmacy chain Doc Norris, directed by Sune Sorensen. A senior citizen baffles his neighbours and relatives with a strange workout routine involving something heavy in the garden. Has the old boy lost the ...
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Wasn’t Ryan Reynolds a film star once? The gin entrepreneur and Maximun Effort production company owner has turned his omni-talented hand to a few ads as well. Now he’s entered the Christmas lists with this newbie for dating service Match, ...
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There’s a new wave of Christmas ads in the UK – oh, no. Actually they may have got it right, don’t some of the biggies show their hand too early? Footasylum, which calls itself a streetwear retailer, is entering the ...
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French supermarket chain Intermarché is good at putting itself on the right side of the argument – sustainability, selling less-than-perfect-looking vegetable etc – and this Christmas it’s tackling the big one – Covid 19 – with agency Romance. A short ...
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People in the UK and elsewhere make their own Christmas ads for the YouTube era and Luke Francis, postmaster at Bude in north Cornwall, has entered the lists with this opus about granny being “locked away.” Filmed in Cornwall with ...
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Wonderhood Studios is getting its chance to join the Christmas showcase (such as it is this year) for good old Branston pickle. Top of your Christmas wish list surely. Maybe it is if, like the heroine here, you’re making it ...
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