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Aldi seems to have got the knack of this advertising lark. In the UK Kevin the carrot’s annual Christmas adventures, courtesy of McCann, seem to captivate the nation and in Australia agency BMF usually comes up with something interesting. This ...

Home Alone starring a very young Macauley Culkin was a big film in its day and now he’s back – aged 38 – enjoying the house to himself courtesy of Google Assistant. And a funny old world it’s become. From ...

We wondered when Mrs Claus, the heroine of Y&R London’s appealing sign-off ad for M&S a couple of years ago, would make a comeback and here she is rewarding Santa for his fitness drive with a new Audi RS5. It’s ...

Oh all right then, let’s have another Christmas ad. This time we’re off to Chile for a touching tale of a volunteer firefighter who lands what nobody wants: the Christmas Eve shift. By Punkrobot and McCann Santiago for store chain ...

Amazon’s UK Christmas ad from Lucky Generals seems to be one of the best performers even though it’s little more than heaps of Amazon deliveries to a winning soundtrack. Maybe other advertisers try too hard? WPP agency Hudson Rouge seems ...

German discounter Lidl is taking a cheeky Christmas swipe at upmarket stalwarts Waitrose and M&S with a poster campaign from TBWA saying its Christmas puddings and mince pies are better and cheaper. Situated outside Waitrose and M&S stores.

We rather miss Orange in the UK, with its history of better than good ads mostly by WCRS (also due to disappear thanks to an Engine Group re-organisation). Instead we have the horrible EE. Orange is now France Telecom’s headline ...

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 ...