Christmas Commercials that Connect Across the World

In READY FOR MEDIA’s third annual series of Christmas Commercials that Connect, we find a common theme: family connectedness. These fast food companies from the US to the UK do it creatively with a popular media: animation! Chick-fil-A Courtesy of Chick-fil-A In the first of our Christmas commercials, Chick-fil-A, portrays a family too busy on their devices to build a …

Christmas Commercials that Connect: McDonald’s

Happy Holidays from READY FOR MEDIA and Tim Nudd, creative editor of ADWEEK, who has rated 30 of the best holiday commercials of 2017, http://www.adweek.com/creativity/see-all-the-big-holiday-ads-of-2017/, As our gifts to you, we have summarized a few of our choices in a series of holiday blogs: Christmas Commercials that Connect. Our award for “Best New Product Introduction” goes to McDonald’s campaign, get #ReindeerReady …

A painful Holiday commercial

In the Hippocratic Oath, doctors promise to first “do no harm.” Advertisers should give their brands and consumers the same care. In last season’s holiday commercial, Coca-Cola insensitively and inadvertently harmed their brand.  Opening with a bucolic view of the indigenous community of Totontepec in Oaxaca, Mexico; the Spanish text proclaimed that 81.6% of Mexico’s indigenous people feel marginalized because Spanish is …