We have one clear leader in the Christmas ad stakes anyway – this humdinger from Oddbins will surely not be caught in the outright crazy stakes. Oddbins says it’s trying to avoid all that cloying emotion at Christmas – meaning ...
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We said earlier that reviewing ads these days was like reviewing comedy – they’re all at it – and one of the better examples is Brothers and Sisters’ Carphone Warehouse channel featuring Keith Lemon flogging Carphone’s Pin Point service in ...
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Mars Pedigree’s Temptations are North America’s favourite cat treat, it seems, but the UK’s adam&eveDDB is the agency. This new campaign, ‘Say sorry for the holidays,’ runs on TV in North America and online. The Elton John school of warbling ...
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BBH has invented a new family for Tesco – harking back to the days of Prunella Scales and Jane Horrocks – and they’ve been let off the leash (or, possibly, out of the asylum) in two new Christmas ads, one ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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