For lots of people it’s going to be a home alone Christmas, more lonely than ever perhaps amid Covid-19. Apple is trying its best to cheer us up with the HomePod mini carrying its Christmas flag, from TBWA\Media Arts Lab ...
Read More »Can a lottery ticket lighten the Christmas gloom?
Spain’s Loteria de Navidad wheels out a reliable annual tear-jerker and this time it’s gone for live action – complete with face mask – in this miserable old year. Lottery tickets as Christmas gifts to lift the gloom (a bit.) ...
Read More »Adam&eveDDB chips in for Great Ormond Street children
Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London is top of many people’s giving lists – in the past it’s been helped by a number of agencies, beginning with CDP as I recall, back in the day when the agency moved ...
Read More »Metro’s Christmas message: help out hospitality
Here’s a nice idea from German cash and carry operator Metro and agency Serviceplan, help out the poor old hospitality industry by ordering your Christmas meal from them – and give your kitchen a break. Running globally. Will the usually ...
Read More »Fred & Farid craft ‘Très Paris’ hymn to Paris for Longchamp
Is Emily in Paris reminding us of French glamour and glitz (arguably somewhat reduced in recent yeqrs?) It can’t have done the makers of posh French accessories any harm and bag maker Longchamp is deploying it to the max in ...
Read More »Unilever brings back Brut with best-use-of-Vinnie Jones award contender
Readers with long memories – or surviving relatives – may recall the archetypal 1970s “Great Smell of Brut” fronted by Kevin Keegan and boxer Henry Cooper. Made by an American company cheekily called Faberge as I recall. Cary Grant was ...
Read More »Boots joins Xmas giving game for Hygiene Bank
Seems that we’re all giving this Christmas – the corporate sector anyway – and Boots is inviting donations to The Hygiene Bank (to which it’s also giving £1m, which doesn’t seem that much) along with offering a range of lower-priced ...
Read More »VCCP weaves Disney+ into first O2 Christmas contender
O2 in the UK is entering the Christmas ad stakes for the first time – courtesy of agency VCCP – with its new cuddly robot Bubl (can you have a cuddly robot?) helping a young ‘Frozen’ fan take her first ...
Read More »Neuro-Insight: this year’s Xmas ads story – separate but together with a dash of optimism
By Shazia Ginai With the possibility of big family gatherings being off limits this December, brands have already started dropping their Christmas adverts like snowflakes to spread some festive spirits and mood to locked down Britain. However this context comes ...
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