Christmas Ads

saabsaab

There is a big push for Christmas advertising from as soon as Halloween ends. This will continue up until Christmas day followed immediately by ads for new year sales. I think it is too early and counter productive to start especially this year with nothing open and less money available. What do you think?

Ekerot

I've seen Christmas trees already up weeks before Halloween; I think if anything it's an escape to get away from the despairing of the Corona world we're gonna be living in for quite some time yet.

As for the ads themselves, well could be worse things they're airing. When you're not watching TV like I do you rarely bump into them after also having an adblocker on PC.

saabsaab

I don't know about the virus having anything to do with it as it happened for the last few years.

Ubbquittious

Heard the Ann Summers one on the radio just there


(sleigh bells)
Great fanny fillers this Christmas at Ann Summers!

Is it all not very late this year?

NIMAN

That Lidl one is going to get annoying fast

saabsaab

NIMAN wrote: »

That Lidl one is going to get annoying fast

Yep. They all are, by Dec 6th we will all be fed up of them.

Quote below from a british marketing publication

'Many brands have admitted they are going earlier this year. Asda said it was launching its advert at the beginning of November following insights showing more than one in five people had completed their Christmas shopping by this time last year.

It was the first retailer to use 5-second blipverts across all the major TV channels to promote the ad ahead of its launch on the evening of 1 December.'

Surreptitious

If anyone is feeling a bit low, you should avoid this one

anewme

Surreptitious wrote: »

If anyone is feeling a bit low, you should avoid this one

Oh my God, I'm in bits here.

Surreptitious

anewme wrote: »

Oh my God, I'm in bits here.

Tear jerker

stargazer 68

Why are all the Christmas ad sad ones? Companies seem to try and outdo each other every year with it! Surely with the year everyone has had they would have changed tack and had some nice happy ads!!

anewme

Surreptitious wrote: »

Tear jerker

I knew no way would John Lewis do that, it's going to get a lot of shares.

Surreptitious

anewme wrote: »

I knew no way would John Lewis do that, it's going to get a lot of shares.

It's an amateur version.

Surreptitious

This one is happy

Kalimah

anewme wrote: »

Oh my God, I'm in bits here.

OMG

Omackeral

''IF I WAS A TOOOOOYYYYYYY''

Shut up you little sh*tmuffin.

The Mighty Quinn

Omackeral wrote: »

''IF I WAS A TOOOOOYYYYYYY''

Shut up you little sh*tmuffin.

Smyfs innit?

touts

Surreptitious wrote: »

If anyone is feeling a bit low, you should avoid this one

So basically: A man

is slowly poisoning a poor dog with chocolate. The dog finally convinces his captor that stockholm syndrome has set in, he now loves him and it is safe to go for a walk outdoors. But the brave dog then escapes as soon as he is outdoors. Man dies trying to hunt down, and presumably finish off,

the dog.

Merry 2020 Christmas indeed!

NIMAN

5:17, too long to watch.

Graces7

Hmmmm. As I never see TV etc ( and have no TV) I never see ads. A peaceful December ahead as always.

The only time I was involved was a couple of years back when Iceland broke the palm oil/orang utan news. Living so far out I was about to ban mince pies then a kind boardsie sent me some ….yumm

Has anything changed re that by the way as I see palm oil being vaunted on a vegan thread?

Badly Drunk Boy

NIMAN wrote: »

5:17, too long to watch.

No matter how short they are, they're still to long and too overhyped.

weldoninhio

saabsaab wrote: »

There is a big push for Christmas advertising from as soon as Halloween ends. This will continue up until Christmas day followed immediately by ads for new year sales. I think it is too early and counter productive to start especially this year with nothing open and less money available. What do you think?

Who watches tv with ads anymore?? Don't people either watch Netflix/Amazon or record what they want to watch and fast forward the ads??

anewme

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

No matter how short they are, they're still to long and too overhyped.

Theres no hype about that one- was made by a random person with no budget and his dad as the actor.

weldoninhio

Surreptitious wrote: »

If anyone is feeling a bit low, you should avoid this one

What a cynical cash in.

weldoninhio

touts wrote: »

So basically: A man

is slowly poisoning a poor dog with chocolate. The dog finally convinces his captor that stockholm syndrome has set in, he now loves him and it is safe to go for a walk outdoors. But the brave dog then escapes as soon as he is outdoors. Man dies trying to hunt down, and presumably finish off,

the dog.

Merry 2020 Christmas indeed!

The dogs advent calendar had "dog friendly chocolate" in it.

whisky_galore

weldoninhio wrote: »

Who watches tv with ads anymore?? Don't people either watch Netflix/Amazon or record what they want to watch and fast forward the ads??

I was unaware that a carrot was a Xmas thing until lately.
I stream most everything as terrestrial tv doesn't have what I want, I don't want to watch ads anyhow, xmas ads or otherwise.

El_Duderino 09

saabsaab wrote: »

There is a big push for Christmas advertising from as soon as Halloween ends. This will continue up until Christmas day followed immediately by ads for new year sales. I think it is too early and counter productive to start especially this year with nothing open and less money available. What do you think?

Who is it counter productive for? The shops‘ only job is to sell more things. If people have less money this year, then the shops need to fight harder to sell things. It’s not the business’ job to care how people feel, it’s their job to sell things and advertising is a top way to sell things.

saabsaab

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Who is it counter productive for? The shops‘ only job is to sell more things. If people have less money this year, then the shops need to fight harder to sell things. It’s not the business’ job to care how people feel, it’s their job to sell things and advertising is a top way to sell things.

They care about selling alright but does over advertising too early put people off? Many seem to think it does.

El_Duderino 09

saabsaab wrote: »

They care about selling alright but does over advertising too early put people off? Many seem to think it does.

Maybe, anecdotally. But the marketing research probably doesn’t agree or else they wouldn’t do it.

Advertising is a fairly well established tool for selling. Maybe it’ll drive down overall sales, but I doubt it.

Hamsterchops

Our local Tesco has their exterior Christmas lights up since yesterday, 10th of November

Never seen them up before the 11th of November.

It's like all our seasonal festivities are getting moved and stretched so that as one finishes another starts with no gaps in between, crazy.

FAR TOO EARLY, by several weeks . . .

Christmas starts on the 25th of December, so the 8th (of December) is soon enough to be putting them up.

Graces7

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Our local Tesco has their exterior Christmas lights up since yesterday, 10th of November

Never seen them up before the 11th of November.

It's like all our seasonal festivities are getting moved and stretched so that as one finishes another starts with no gaps in between, crazy.

FAR TOO EARLY, by several weeks . . .

Christmas starts on the 25th of December, so the 8th (of December) is soon enough to be putting them up.

Ah Agree totally

One of the great things about island or deep remote living is that I see none of this. My own decorations etc will go up Advent 2 as always.. Trying for real lights this year...

Xtrail14

Is there not an Xmas forum for this dose of diarrhoea?

Hyperbollix

As if Lidl/Aldi ads weren't bad enough, they had to employ Bernard O' Shea to do the voiceover.

Xtrail14

He is a top class tool

up for anything

Surreptitious wrote: »

This one is happy

Let's rip the happy out of it.

Poor Kevin. Racing home for Christmas skewered on the tines of a horrifying hedgehog hurtling helter-skelter through the darkening frozen landscape, rescued by a seemingly jovial gent, Kevin's fear allayed by Santa's red raiment, and failing to realise thanks to his colour blindness that his rescuer is none other than the Jolly Green Giant of lurid legume legend, helping him reach his warm and usually welcoming sanctuary but where now a ravening violent vegetarian lying in wait grabs him, circumcises him at both ends, flays him alive, his pain-wracked body sliced into matchsticks and while there's still a breath of life in his tortured tuber plunged into boiling salted water to tenderise his fibrous filaments.

Kevin never gets to sit down with his loving family to enjoy Terence, the delicious crispy golden-brown turkey around whom they were gathering when the vengeful vegan struck. Poor Kevin, or maybe served him right.

Graces7

Just seen the supervalu ad! Love it1 ... sorry; cannot post links.

bladespin

Surreptitious wrote: »

If anyone is feeling a bit low, you should avoid this one

That's pretty rubbish on many fronts, is it genuine or did some amateur have a go?

whisky_galore

Graces7 wrote: »

Just seen the supervalu ad! Love it1 ... sorry; cannot post links.

Good.

freshpopcorn

saabsaab wrote: »

They care about selling alright but does over advertising too early put people off? Many seem to think it does.

I doubt it to be honest.
Take Brown Thomas for example they started opening their Christmas Shop in mid August about a decade ago and they kept on doing it because they were selling stuff.(Apart from this year because of Covid.)
Similar with shops selling sweets.
Even when ads air. Normally in the first week of November the retails are watching to see do their online or in store sales rise once they air.
If they found it was putting people off airing ads in early November I doubt they’d bother.

Graces7

Xtrail14 wrote: »

Is there not an Xmas forum for this dose of diarrhoea?

yay but enter at your peril.... ! I fled therefrom weeks ago....,,

rickis tache

Graces7 wrote: »

Just seen the supervalu ad! Love it1 ... sorry; cannot post links.

Just seen it. Lost my dad this year so can't make it through the full ad without blubbing.

Jim_Hodge

Surreptitious wrote: »

This one is happy

When I saw it my First thoughts were if Jacqueline Wilson will sue for ripping off Stickman.

ChikiChiki

Crimbo tree en route. It is going up early this year. May begin to stockpile the drinks cabinet.

anewme

John Lewis ad is out. Very meh.

touts

John Lewis Ad is absolute rubbish.

But the McDonalds Ad. Now that's the winner hands down.

Kylta

Surreptitious wrote: »

If anyone is feeling a bit low, you should avoid this one

Actually thats a very funny video. Is the moral of that story, is he should've got a cat or a hamster. And I don't think he died of a broken heart over the dog, I think he died from eating all the chocolate, it's no wonder the dog Fu¢k off

Edgware

Has anyone noticed a bit of a stretch in the evenings?

DvB

Graces7 wrote: »

yay but enter at your peril.... ! I fled therefrom weeks ago....,,

I have no idea why Graces, not one person on that forum ever gave you anything but respect.

eviltwin

I’m in a minority but I like seeing the Christmas ads. This year has been quite a bad one for various readers and the ads remind me that soon it will be a new year, a fresh start and hopefully a more positive twelve months. It’s been a miserable year and if a bit of Christmas brings some joy to people work away.

In saying that I imagine by early December I will be sick of it all too

Hector Savage

This was always my favourite one

Kids face just breaks my heart at the end ... it shouldn't it's a nice happy moment ... but man .... can't watch it now.

Surreptitious

Disney Christmas ad