The 1996 M&Ms campaign 'Christmas Faint' plays on this idea in a creative and amusing fashion. The red M&M character is shocked to discover that Santa Claus exists, while Santa is equally stunned at the existence of red and green M&Ms.

Every year, M&M's classic Christmas commercial from 1996 plays on TVs across the country - you know the one.

1954 M&M's characters appeared as far back in M&M's commercials as 1954, in a commercial launching the peanut variety of the chocolate candy. One of the brand's longest-running commercials, featuring the red and yellow candies scaring Santa Claus, first aired in 1996, and is still shown during the holiday season.

The first location opened on the Las Vegas Strip in 1997, in the Showcase Mall next to the MGM Grand. The four-storyM&M's World includes a gift shop on the first floor. The shop leads to a 3D movie theater that shows the short subject I Lost My M In Vegas.

the Discount Tire Company's Thank you commercial The world's longest running TV commercial is the Discount Tire Company's Thank you commercial, produced by Swartwout Productions (Arizona, USA) and first aired in 1975. The same commercial has been aired continuously every year in parts of the USA.

Procter & Gamble made one for Old Spice and it's just been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest commercial ever. The company made it to promote Old Spice's new Durascent technology. You probably missed it. The 14-hour ad aired on December 8, 2018, in São Paulo, Brazil, according to Guinness.

M&M's characters

M&Ms were first sold in 1941, and the characters arrived on the scene in 1954. Old M&Ms commercials starred Red and Yellow, representing regular and peanut M&Ms. In the late 1990s, new characters were added to the mix. Brown, the most recent addition, joined the crew in 2012.

MMS. The facility in Haguenau in the country's eastern region of Alsace turns out 90% of Mars' M&M's output in Europe, producing more than 130 million a day for export to around 50 countries.

Mars, copied the idea for the candy in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating British-made Smarties, chocolate pellets with a colored shell of what confectioners call hard panning (essentially hardened sugar syrup) surrounding the outside, preventing the sweets (candies) from melting.

According to the Story of Advertising by James Playsted Wood, the first known written ad in the history of advertising was found by archeologists in the ruins of Thebes, known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset. It was the papyrus created in 3000 BC on behalf of a slaveholder who was trying to find one of his slaves.

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