There are a lot things I forget to write about for this blog, but Christmas TV ads haven’t been one of them. This year, I didn’t even have the choice.
I’ve shared and written about Christmas ads since 2010, though that post was called “Classic Christmas TV” and was just about, well, classic ads—obviously? In 2016, I started writing about ads from around the world, the first of which was an ad from the UK’s Marks & Spencer (and I still love that ad). However, over time many of the YouTube ads would disappear, leaving the “Video unavailable” placeholders. Annoying.
In 2021, I started creating YouTube Playlists of New Zealand Christmas TV ads, That way, if a video was no longer available, I oculd just delete it form the playlist, and the rest would still be visible—and the display frame would also be visible—no more “Video unavailable” placeholders. Instead, I’ll just do a strikethrough on the title of any deleted video. Amd this has worked well—until this year.
There have been NO new New Zealand Christmas TV ads this year. Instead, the two supermarket chains, New World and Woolworths, are running the same ads they ran last year (ads 2 and 3 on my 2024 playlist), there are no new Christmas ads from anyone else this year, either. As in past years, retail chains are running ads promoting whatever’s on special that week, but nothing else. Even Air New Zealand hasn’t done a Christmas ad this year, instead releasing their new general promotion video that debuted this week.
So, there’s no playlist Christmas ad playlist this year. That’s too bad, but I’m kind of matter-of-fact about such things these days. Maybe if the economy is stronger next year there’ll be new ads, but for now, take a look at the playlists for 2021 onwards (links in the left sidebar), because I play them periodically to make sure that all the videos are still there.
And, have yourself a merry little Christmas, even without my annual Christmas ad playlist.
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