Ad Nauseam’s Top 5 Best Ever Christmas Ads

Ahhh… Christmas ads. Who doesn’t have a love/hate relationship with them? Love the ones that are such classics they’ve been airing for over twenty years. Hate the ones which browbeat us immediately after Hallowe’en with Christmas Sale - Buy Now! messages, made-on-PowerPoint and with a relentless sleighbell soundtrack (yes, I’m looking at you Harvey Norman). But fear not, for this post shall be focusing on the best of the best Christmas ads. I’m going to lay out my Top 5 Christmas ads of all time and tomorrow I’ll be asking you, dear readers, to vote for yours. A word of warning in advance: this is going to be a no-holds-barred, rose-tinted-glasses, nostalgia-fest. So Grinches, you’re probably best averting your eyes right now. Whether you’re a believer or not, Christmas is a time of year wrapped up in a complex weave of meaning and emotion (much of it created by advertising … There’s more

€1 donation for every download of Saw Doctor’s Red Cortina to Vincent de Paul ’til Friday 10th December

The Saw Doctors have released a new acapella version of their song, Red Cortina on iTunes. Smyths Toys will donate a separate 1 Euro to the St. Vincent de Paul Society for every download of Red Cortina acapella from iTunes until Friday, December 10. If you’re a Saw Doctors fan you can download Red Cortina here.