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Christmas Ads 2014

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,322 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    The Christmas ads are finally starting! This is really cute.


    Nicely done :-) hadn't seen that yet but I'm soooo excited that Christmas ads are starting!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I've just seen the Littlewoods Ireland Christmas ad. I can't find it online yet though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭cailinardthair




    Debenhams ad this year


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    That's a great ad. I'd say those kids had so much fun.


  • Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭shelly22


    That is a lovely ad, getting me into the Christmas mood ��
    I wonder when the John Lewis one will be out


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  • Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭shelly22




  • Registered Users Posts: 175 ✭✭shelly22


    It says here yhe John Lewis ad is out on Thursday

    http://www.cityam.com/1415067004/high-street-groups-gear-bumper-christmas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,322 ✭✭✭✭leahyl




  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    You should have put a NSFW on that!! I'm nearly after bawling at my desk :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    So cute.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    The John Lewis one is fab - it made me cry though lol, had to pretend I was getting something out of my bag under the desk so no one would see haha!! I'm a big sap


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,322 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    It's an amazing ad once again from John Lewis - can't wait for it to just spontaneously come on TV and burst into tears :o:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    My daughter is going to love that ad (she's 20 :) & loves christmas,i honestly don't know where she gets it :D )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    The little twist at the end makes it especially for the second and subsequent viewings. Up to then I was thinking too much non-Christmas and the animal rights people will go nuts over John Lewis promoting the trafficking of penguins as pets. Then bang, right at the end the whole ad makes sense and does bring a tear to your eye on a second viewing. I think we have another classic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭shefellover93



    Love this ad! Gemma Hayes is perfect for this kind of thing!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭SarahLil


    I've just shed my first Christmas tear the John Lewis ad is a classic, my OH says why are you crying when you love Christmas so much lol!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I really like the Aldi UK one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Ads on TV were always a part of the run up to Christmas for me.

    As somebody now living abroad where Christmas is more of a curiosity than a celebration, don't underestimate the power of this thread for somebody like me. Especially when I can click a few buttons and have the add displayed on my TV (thanks Chromecast).

    Freaking the wife out here. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    M&S have put their ad on their FB page.


  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    Here is Asda's to add to the list :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    Coca Cola



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Well I wasn't expecting that Coca Cola Ad to be so sweet! :o:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭SMJSF


    The Waitrose ad isn't the best IMO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Boots



  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    Argos...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    John Lewis ad
    Oh, I love it! Welling up a bit here! Poor little penguin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    leahyl wrote: »

    Oh god I love it, I am in tears. The song is beautiful too. Anyone know the artist?


  • Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭minipink


    The coke christmas ad was on the xfactor ITV not UTV version tonight. My sister works in marketing so they got a sneak preview of some of the ads on some marketing people website so I had a peek over her shoulder last week. I love the coke one but can't wait for Holidays are Coming version of coke. It's almost as good as the kelloggs 'hohoho' one. I'm already getting a bit tired of marks and spenders one and I'm not a big tv watcher, i think its a bit too long


  • Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭FarmerBrowne


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Oh god I love it, I am in tears. The song is beautiful too. Anyone know the artist?

    John Lennon tune covered by Tom Odell


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  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    Tesco :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭SMJSF


    Tesco 


    aaww I like that one!! (:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Why am I crying over penguins :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    aw thaty is sooo adorable. love penguins.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    Waitrose


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I'm loving the Tesco ad this year!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    I hate to admit it but I was slightly disappointed with this year’s crop of new Christmas ads, but I love the Tesco one. It really captures the excitement of Christmas in my opinion. The decorations, the lights, all the prep and the over excited kids, I love it. It’s a good old fashioned feel good Christmas ad. :) I know I am in the minority in thinking this but I think the John Lewis ads have become slightly over hyped and samey :eek:. The ad is cute but not Christmassy enough for me. I think their ads have become more about how will we make people shed a tear this year than about Christmas. Can’t wait for some of the classic to come on, the Guinness ad can never be beaten as far as I’m concerned. Pure Christmas classic. :D


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I hate to admit it but I was slightly disappointed with this year’s crop of new Christmas ads, but I love the Tesco one. It really captures the excitement of Christmas in my opinion. The decorations, the lights, all the prep and the over excited kids, I love it. It’s a good old fashioned feel good Christmas ad. :) I know I am in the minority in thinking this but I think the John Lewis ads have become slightly over hyped and samey :eek:. The ad is cute but not Christmassy enough for me. I think their ads have become more about how will we make people shed a tear this year than about Christmas. Can’t wait for some of the classic to come on, the Guinness ad can never be beaten as far as I’m concerned. Pure Christmas classic. :D


    You're not alone, I pretty much agree with each word of that post!


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    http://youtu.be/7_4AOpcBwZ4

    The 2013 Tesco ad is still a favourite of mine! God bless Youtube for holding onto memories!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,322 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    I really miss the old Budweiser ad with the Clydesdale horses - the long version!! They barely ever air that anymore and it's an absolute classic in my opinion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'm very disappointed with the John Lewis ad. It's essentially a child with a penguin and Christmas seems to be an after thought. Usually the JL Christmas ad reduces me to a weepy mess of sentimentality, sadly not this year. Not a patch on last years The Bear and the Hare, or the snowman who went to buy a scarf and gloves for his snow woman girlfriend because she was cold.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    Loughc wrote: »
    http://youtu.be/7_4AOpcBwZ4

    The 2013 Tesco ad is still a favourite of mine! God bless Youtube for holding onto memories!

    Love it, :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    leahyl wrote: »
    I really miss the old Budweiser ad with the Clydesdale horses - the long version!! They barely ever air that anymore and it's an absolute classic in my opinion.

    Completely agree, just hearing those bells. Even if it was the middle of the summer it would feel like Christmas.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    I'm very disappointed with the John Lewis ad. It's essentially a child with a penguin and Christmas seems to be an after thought. Usually the JL Christmas ad reduces me to a weepy mess of sentimentality, sadly not this year. Not a patch on last years The Bear and the Hare, or the snowman who went to buy a scarf and gloves for his snow woman girlfriend because she was cold.



    I think this was a classic from John Lewis and ever other year's ad has been an attempt to replicate the feeling and buzz created by this one. This one is definitely included in my list of classics.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I'm very disappointed with the John Lewis ad. It's essentially a child with a penguin and Christmas seems to be an after thought.
    I don't really get why a small child- who is still young enough to play with soft toys and have a favourite 'teddy' is looking wistfully at couples kissing and hugging and feeling his penguin must be lonely and need someone to love.

    I don't ever recall feeling that my teddy bear must have been sad because he was romantically unattached. :o


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Yes that's still my favourite John Lewis ad to date! The 2011 one that is. I never realised Posy sneaked in ahead of my reply :P

    Can anyone remember the old McDonalds ad, where they showed a closed McDonalds and they were advertising Christmas was the one day they close, I would love a link to it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    Loughc wrote: »

    This will always be a classic :). Its amazing really, how a short uncomplicated ad can be become such a recognisable classic that has never really aged after all these years.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I think this was a classic from John Lewis and ever other year's ad has been an attempt to replicate the feeling and buzz created by this one. This one is definitely included in my list of classics.
    That's my all time favourite John Lewis ad. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    Posy wrote: »
    I don't really get why a small child- who is still young enough to play with soft toys and have a favourite 'teddy' is looking wistfully at couples kissing and hugging and feeling his penguin must be lonely and need someone to love.

    I don't ever recall feeling that my teddy bear must have been sad because he was romantically unattached. :o

    Exactly the whole vibe of the ad just feels forced somehow. Child, teddybear, imaginary friend. Its just slightly clichéd somehow.


  • Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭WittyNameForMe


    Loughc wrote: »
    Yes that's still my favourite John Lewis ad to date! The 2011 one that is. I never realised Posy sneaked in ahead of my reply :P

    Can anyone remember the old McDonalds ad, where they showed a closed McDonalds and they were advertising Christmas was the one day they close, I would love a link to it.

    McDonals are another company who usually get their Christmas advertising right in my opion. That ad where McDonalds is closed and it has the tag line of everyone should be home on Christmas day (along those lines anyway :) ) was very touching. I really liked that one :D


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