Every year corporations love releasing a new Christmas ad. In 2024, Coca Cola used AI to make its campaign resulting in unsettling faces and changing bottle sizes. Let’s look at some of the best and worst Christmas ads ever.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00This could be love!
00:02It's become a tradition. Every year, the world's biggest brands release their best Christmas advertising campaigns.
00:09In 2024, Coca-Cola used AI to make a truly unsettling 30 seconds, complete with inhuman-faced smiles and bottles of Sally changing sizes.
00:17But at least the Coke logo always makes it out perfectly unscathed. Gotta keep their brand awareness unharmed.
00:23A few years ago, UK department store John Lewis released an ad that became an instant classic.
00:29Monty the Penguin's Lonely Journey stole hearts all over the world.
00:33Meanwhile, the American instant coffee brand Folgers was probably hoping for a similar reaction to its 2009 Christmas offering.
00:39The ad's depiction of a sibling relationship had audiences confused as to the exact nature of this brother-and-sister closeness.
00:47Back on the nice side of the list, Australia Post's 2023 ad, Nick the Intern, hilariously highlighted the hard work posties do over the Christmas period.
00:55And finally, Addy found its way to the naughty list after its nightmarish 2023 campaign was pulled from television for breaching ad standards.
01:04It featured an indoor barbecue, a man's hands covered in strawberries which resembled blood, and a potato with a seemingly severed head.
01:11All set to the soundtrack of Time of My Life.
01:14T'was the nightmare before Christmas.