Christmas Adverts

I like the way they've redone the end of the advert to incorporate their new jingle at the end. And kept it in 4:3...

I'm sure it was the '97 version they showed last year too.

EDIT: Yep - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrHslVuqFyI

I think they've used both the trucks and a new ad for the past few years, with the version of the trucks that aired last night being the one they introduced last year.


Seems they've changed the instrumentals, with slightly lower pitch vocals and an additional line to extend them to the end of the ad. I wonder whether this is a later edit, or if this is a version for the States and we're getting the version posted on the first page. Personally I prefer the first version we saw.


I agree with you there, they have a good feel to them without having to resort to the visual effects some other ads have. Their soundtrack choices do seem to go down well, Ellie Goulding is now #4 on iTunes, and I remember the soundtrack to the previous ad doing well in the charts and gaining radio airplay also.

Still no signs of the recreated Toys R Us ad? With the odd old building and logo at the start and new building and logo at the end.

I think "Holidays are coming" and "There's a magical place" are iconic for my generation anyway.

For me (age 26) it's not Christmas unless I see:

Yellow Pages: http://youtu.be/GElOGkCBrHw

Andrex : http://youtu.be/Is26EbWvp-8

Hellman's Mayo : http://youtu.be/3Gp-RmFVuRw

and more recently: Quality Street : http://youtu.be/zZkpukIjvRI

I see they've airbrushed "Always" from the back of the truck.

I'm 24 and yeah Yellow Pages ad is a fond one for me too

Five Salad Bowls. Four King Prawns, Three Honeyed Hams, Two Turkey Legs......

Don't remember the Andrex puppy Christmas ad though.

You young whippersnappers.....

Sainsbury's Perfect Christmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BeDPNJrH9o

Love it.

It first aired on the 18th November last year so it could be just around the corner. Hope so anyway.

Well they're using the lyrics in their promotional literature... just a question of when, I think.

That's good to see about Toys R Us.

Loved the new Sainsbury's advert, that's the best of the bunch of new ones this year so far.

Wasn't it only brought back last year for the 20th anniversary? I wouldn't expect it to see it this year (the original last appeared in Christmas 2000, and last year's was re-animated) but I'd certainly hope so.

I remember the Andrex puppy ad from 1993 One of my earliest ad memories along with the Maynards Wine Gums one!