Tag Archives: christmas ads

Enfin, a French spin on Christmas, for Swiss department store Manor from BETC Paris. At first we’ve seen it all before but it develops into a sweet story – featuring, among others, nerdy Santa Junior – realised by collective AgainstAllOdds. ...

Sure lots of people repair to a fast food joint at Christmas – anything to escape – but, in ads anyway, it looks a bit sad. So it’s an intriguing choice by Mother to eschew the crackers and silly hats ...

So what has happened to the Christmas ads missing millions? Last week we noted that YouTube views seems to be down across the piece and it seems that the same has happened to Facebook shares (bigger numbers than YouTube in ...

McDonald’s seems to be dispensing mini reindeer this Christmas, desired by everybody it seems. A touch implausible but nicely done by Leo Burnett, as ever. MAA creative scale: 7.

So which ads are top (bottom) of the list of Christmas turkeys? So far, anyway, according to YouTube. Tesco’s turkey-stuffed ‘Everyone’s Welcome,’ is arguably one with just 425,000 YouTube views (John Lewis has eight million so far). Surprising, liked this ...

Is the Christmas ad bug biting in the US too? Here’s BBDO’s debut for Macy’s, featuring two children (one of whom has recently lost her mother) getting together in the bizarre and, no doubt, symbolic environs of a lighthouse. So ...

Sure that most people who use Twitter as relatively normal. Maybe the problem is that most Twitter posts are so banal that only the crazy ones get picked up by the media. Tesco finds itself in a mini-Twitter conflagration over ...

Christmas seems to be bringing out the anarchic side of Wieden+Kennedy – never too far away – and client TK Maxx is offering “real snow” delivered by “snow experts” to a select number of customers, lucky/unlucky enough to buy a ...

Waitrose is visiting the Geoffrey Boycott Appreciation Society up in’t Dales – courtesy of adam&eveDDB – and the poor souls are snowed in, it being Christmas. But Waitrose comes to the rescue, naturally (bet they’re giving the venison at £60 ...