Tag Archives: christmas ads

Sky and agency WCRS have conjured up a variation on the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Princess and the Pea for Christmas, this one a young girl – with diva-ish tendencies – and that Marmite of the vegetable world, a ...

Once more into Christmas dear friends…Marks & Spencer seems to have given up the ghost this year, adapting its “The Art Of’ fashion campaign: Backed by some run of the mill food stuff: Maybe CEO Marc Bolland is right to ...

Last week saw the Christmas advertising onslaught start with the big guns showcasing their shiny new TV commercials. John Lewis made the business section of The Times on Friday, on Saturday they published a stinging cartoon of the JL story ...

Has John Lewis smashed Christmas again? It does have the man on the moon, a girl who befriends him and Oasis’ ‘Half The World Away’ by Norwegian warbler Aurora Aksnes. And most of the ingredients that have created a whole ...

For those of you already wearying of the relentless Christmas gloop we move to France for a diverting number by Embalada Paris for Carte Noire coffee’s support for a breast cancer charity. Why can’t we have charity ads in the ...

A while back Jeff Goldblum appeared in some funny online films for GE and BBDO New York. Do stars – Golblum presumably still counts as one – have their favourite agencies? Here he is performing for the UK’s AMV BBDO ...

The most hyped Christmas ad of the year is undoubtedly Burberry’s latest opus, paying tribute to British musical Billy Elliott with a host of stars – Elton John, Naomi Campbell, James Corden and little Romeo Beckham among them – leaping ...

We’ve had much here recently about ads lacking a convincing proposition so it’s good of Asda to underline the point with its new Christmas campaign from VCCP. In which ‘#Becauseitschristmas’ is the excuse for much pointless merriment. Asda still seems ...

In another More About Advertising exclusive, guest reviewer Ebenezer Scrooge gives his opinion of a selection of the Christmas ads. First, Morrisons. Now I believe this to be a respectable food emporium but this ad seems to feature two men ...