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Boards.ie Favourite Christmas Advert - The FINAL

  • 01-03-2021 04:15PM
    #1
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 26,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    It's a new month...

    Which only means one thing... it's time for a new tournament!!

    This time we will be pitting out favourite Christmas advert.

    "From the home of the black stuff...."

    "Holidays are coming"

    "Ho Ho Ho"

    And whisper quietly... Happy Christmas

    The Rules.

    1. The nominations are open to adverts from any medium... TV, Radio, Print and Online.

    2. Seed Raking will be done purely on number of nominations.

    Enjoy, happy nominating :)

    The lifeboat has set sail



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  • #2
    TRS30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Do you need links to ads or will just saying 'the Guinness one' do??


  • #3
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 26,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    TRS30 wrote: »
    Do you need links to ads or will just saying 'the Guinness one' do??

    Links are encouraged as some companies have multiple famous ads, I'm looking at you John Lewis.

    If you can't get a link a tag line description will do.

    Example Guinness - "Home of the black stuff" will do as we will all recognise it.

    The lifeboat has set sail



  • #4
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,462 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Snowman -- An Post -- Walking in the Air -- Christmas Ad 2005

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #5
    Mutleyboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 277 ✭✭Mutleyboo


    Looking forward to seeing all the ads.
    Any limit on nominations?


  • #6
    Caranica
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,273 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Think this is my favourite of the Penney's ones

    https://youtu.be/whCXr0IgxcI


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  • #7
    Caranica
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,273 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Obviously this Corn Flakes and

    https://youtu.be/BbPGx02ZWrw


  • #8
    DvB
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    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" Charles Dickens


  • #9
    DvB
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    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" Charles Dickens


  • #10
    TRS30
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Super collect there DvB. Would be surprised if the winner didn't come from one of them!


  • #11
    TRS30
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  • #12
    TRS30
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  • #13
    Loughc
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    Mutleyboo wrote: »
    Looking forward to seeing all the ads.
    Any limit on nominations?

    No limit this time :)

    The lifeboat has set sail



  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 816 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When do nominations close? :)


  • #15
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 28,031 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Pure nostalgia. Always makes me a bit teary, and especially during Christmas 2020 when so many people couldn't come home for Christmas. :(
    But... it will be so much more special when people can see their loved ones again and have that hug like the mammy in the ad.



    Pure nostalgia 2.0. Can't hear that music without having flashbacks to the childhood excitement of the festive season!



    Pure nostalgia 3.0. Loved Budweiser this advert as a child. The music, the horsies, the Christmasiness. :D



  • #16
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 28,031 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Next batch, starting with the one that still makes my stomach do flips when I hear that music starting-











  • #17
    Posy
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    John Lewis Category :D









  • #18
    Loughc
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    When do nominations close? :)

    Friday Night for now.

    The lifeboat has set sail



  • #19
    PaulT21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 738 ✭✭✭PaulT21


    This brings a tear to my eye every year, and its 25 years old.:D

    Barry's Tea "Christmas Train Set" Radio Add given the YouTube treatment.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab0-T0KkJzY


  • #20
    Posy
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    That's my first time hearing that, Paul!


  • #21
    Loughc
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    Posy wrote: »
    That's my first time hearing that, Paul!
    PaulT21 wrote: »
    This brings a tear to my eye every year, and its 25 years old.:D

    Barry's Tea "Christmas Train Set" Radio Add given the YouTube treatment.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab0-T0KkJzY

    It's a classic radio ad, that's why I left it open to all ads as I knew someone would nominate it.

    The lifeboat has set sail



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  • #22
    TRS30
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    Can see a few of the classics fighting it out for top nomination!


  • #23
    otnomart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,061 ✭✭✭otnomart


    My nominations !

    Already mentioned:
    -Guinness
    -An Post - Snowman
    -Sainsbury's - WW1 Christmas Truce (2014)
    -Hafod (2019)

    and also:
    -Sky/Xfinity - The Return of ET (2019)
    -Sainsbury's - Big Night (2018)
    -Heathrow Bears (2016)
    -Heathrow Bears (2018)
    -Air New Zealand - #MirryChristmus​ (2017)
    -M&S - Mrs Claus (2016)













  • #24
    ronan.h
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭ronan.h


    Not sure I've seen it mentioned yet but the ESB ad from the 80's

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqSxlUJyxo



    Then the obvious winner... right - got to be Pennys

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKYgC7CFd5U


    Denny - just too cute
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqIr6oydbDo


    Finally, the often overlooked Coca Cola Polar Bears from the 90's
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql-iGGxyGuo


  • #25
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,656 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    No idea how I forgot this one yesterday



    or this one!



    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" Charles Dickens


  • #26
    TRS30
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  • #27
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,656 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Although I always said they missed a trick by not ultimately having the old lad living across the street (but may as well have been on the moon he was that lonely) I liked this John Lewis one. Nowhere near as good as 'the journey' or 'the bear & the hare' but worthy of a nomination IMO.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" Charles Dickens


  • #28
    DvB
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    Technically this was an advert, it was BBC advertising its own christmas season in 2017 and I loved it at the time.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" Charles Dickens


  • #29
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 28,031 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    +1 for the Heathrow bears, actually. Love that one! :)


  • #30
    DvB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,656 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Dare I say it, have we lost our collective appetite for the christmas tournaments!? Or are we all just too busy these days?
    Seems so much quieter the last week or so.
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" Charles Dickens


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  • #31
    PaulT21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 738 ✭✭✭PaulT21


    DvB wrote: »
    Dare I say it, have we lost our collective appetite for the christmas tournaments!? Or are we all just too busy these days?
    Seems so much quieter the last week or so.

    Just to clarify as I was not up on the last tournament:o

    Is it nominations first ?

    Followed then by a short list and then a final vote:D

    Or am I all wrong:confused:


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