Walmart TV Spot, 'Holidays: No Holding Back' Song by Etta James.

Sprite is ringing in the holiday season with a new holiday commercial celebrating Black families – both kith and kin. Directed by comedian Eric André, the 'Sprite Holiday Special' is a modern take on the old school holiday special with skits starring Black actors and improv artists.

In the 1840s, marketers began to see Christmas as a prime opportunity to sell goods. Depictions of Santa were associated with advertisements in big cities like New York City and Boston, and the first in-store Santa appeared at Macy's in 1862. The commercial ties of the holiday only grew from there.

Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry will be offered nationwide in 20-oz. or 2-liter bottles, and Sprite Winter Spiced Cranberry Zero Sugar will be offered in 2-liter bottles.

The brand's slogan was changed to "Obey Your Thirst", and jingles containing it became urban-oriented, featuring a hip-hop theme. One of the first lyrics for the new slogan was, "never forget yourself 'cause first things first, grab a cold, cold can, and obey your thirst."

Today, Christmas is both a religious and cultural holiday, centered around the birth of Jesus and celebrated all over the world. Midwinter celebrations, usually surrounding the winter solstice, were a staple of many different cultures.

Consumer messages were now broadcast to the public through billboards, magazines, radio, and later the moving image of television. Mass advertising was what allowed the slowly developing idea of Christmas as a time to give gifts to go mainstream, and eventually, to define Christmas itself.

In the early 1940s, Coca-Cola started running an advertising campaign featuring an elf-like figure called “Sprite Boy” (see sprite (“elf”)). The name originated from the previous Coca-Cola campaign, but it was a focus group that ultimately chose the name “Sprite”.

Gingerbread. The holidays wouldn't be the same without the sweet smell of gingerbread seeping through the hallways. Gingerbread is a timeless Christmas flavor and can be baked into nearly everything. Cookies, muffins bread - you name it!

In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game. Originally, the term sprite referred to fixed-sized objects composited together, by hardware, with a background. Use of the term has since become more general.

Sprite was originally developed in West Germany in 1959. The drink started life as part of the Fanta line with the name Clear Lemon Fanta. Two years later the drink would be introduced to the U.S. market with its new name: Sprite.

Christmas, celebrated by most Christians on December 25, commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Americans, like many of the world's peoples, have developed their own Christmas traditions and observances, and these have changed greatly over time.