What's your favourite Christmas advertisement?

[Aviador]

Christmas is almost upon us and the annual array of Christmas advertisements are starting to fill our TV screens. Which Christmas advertisement is your favourite, past or present?

My personal favourites are produced for a local shopping mall The Victoria Quarter in Leeds. I look forward to seeing their latest Christmas advertisement every year. It may possibly be used by the owners of the centre for other shopping malls in the UK.

As for the national Christmas advertisements, John Lewis is good but I don't think there ad is as good this year as it usually is. Similarly with the Heathrow airport ad, although good, I think last years was better.

I found this German advert touching, It's about a man who decides the only way he could get his family together was to tell them that there's been a death in the family. Thankfully, he was just trying to get everybody home for Christmas.

 

[Aviador]

Here's the series of Victoria Quarter advertisements from previous years. The Victoria Quarter, Leeds is part of the Hammerson Group so their ads might appear near you for another shopping centre.

 

[Ray Finkle]

I'm not afraid to admit the tears rolling down my cheeks.

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[thunderchild]

Beautiful - apparently it only cost £50 too make. Compare that to the £10 million John Lewis has spent on their latest advert, or as I like to call it the trailer for the upcoming Elton John biopic. Call my cynical but all this self promotion is hardly in the spirit of Christmas at all.

I always liked the Snowman advert....