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What can we learn from the best Christmas ads of 2022?

Every marketer wants to sleigh their Christmas creative to drive profit and market share growth. Collectively, 2022’s Christmas ads performed better in System1’s testing than any previous year’s ads, with an unprecedented 16 ads hitting 5-Stars.

The Gift of Christmas Creative

Put on your coziest jumper and get in the festive spirit for our webinar unwrapping creative effectiveness best practices.

Host Jon Evans, Chief Customer Officer, is joined by Britt Iversen, Executive Strategy Director, Havas London; Stephi Brett-Lee, Senior Director of Brand Communications at Asda; and James Boodt, Senior Strategist at ITV

Top UK Christmas Ads from 2022

1
ASDA

Have your Elf a Merry Christmas

Christmas movies are a bigger part of Xmas than ever so it’s a genius move to recruit Buddy The Elf for this ad...

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2
Amazon

Joy is made

Sentimental storytelling is one of the most popular Christmas Ad tactics and Amazon get it so right here with a genuinely original story of a Dad’s dedication to make a perfect Christmas for his kid...

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3
Aldi

Christmas Advert 2022

Aldi’s consistency at Christmas is phenomenal. This is the fourth year in a row their Kevin the Carrot ad scored 5-Stars and they got a second 5-Star score with the trailer...

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4
Marks & Spencer

Gifts That Give

The charity Neighbourly feature in two of the top 4 ads - proving that a bit of purpose at Christmas can work really well...

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Top Christmas Ads

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6 December 2022

Unwrapping the Top Ad Testing Tactics

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  • The 12 Rules of Christmas

    Using the past three years of System1 testing and beyond, we share best practices for developing Christmas ads that deliver the gift of emotional engagement to create long and short-term effective Christmas ads.

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Our comprehensive review of Christmas advertising effectiveness draws on everything we’ve learnt from the past 10 Years using our database of 150,000+ global ads and a study of 105 top Christmas ads with 15,750 respondents.

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