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I spend the run up to Christmas preaching to my kids about how over-commercialised Christmas has become, then spend Christmas stuffing my face with chocolate and playing video games with them.

So this year I didn’t bother getting on my over-commercialised high horse and unashamedley compiled a list of my top ten Christmas TV ads of all time. If I’ve missed your favourite let me know.

We’ve got to start with the Daddy. Coca Cola invented our universal view Of Santa as a fat man with a beard in a red suit. Except they didn’t. Urban myth I’m afraid. Nevertheless, could this ad be more schmaltzy?

Now this John Lewis ad is just genius art direction. Very clever.

This Irn Bru ad is my very favourite – hilarious pastiche.

Particularly poignant this one. As a kid, I knew Christmas was really coming when the Woolies Christmas ad appeared. We used to wait to see which celebrities were going to be on this year. And when did you last see Anita Harris and the Goodies?

Are M&S the new Woolies? This isn’t just a Christmas ad, it’s an M&S Christmas ad.

The ‘priceless’ campaign has been a big success for Mastercard. This Christmas ad
unashamedly exploits everyone’s desire to be together at Christmas. Until Boxing Day that is.

This was a breakthrough ad for Boots. Although how ‘here come the girls’ persuades me to buy my razor blades there I’m not sure.

Ferrero Rocher is one of those products that only seems to exist at Christmas. Like brussel sprouts. Although not ‘Christmassy’ this Bond title pastiche was spot on at Christmas. “Oh Santa, you are spoiling us”.

Who remembers when we all actually believed that BA was the world’s favourite airline and they didn’t go on strike every Christmas? These were the days when business travellers gave them so much money they could afford the world’s largest ad budgets.

And finally a bit of taste. Great ad for a great ale.