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

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.

The longest TV commercial by duration is 14 hr, and was produced by Procter & Gamble (Brazil), promoting Old Spice Deodorant, and aired in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, on 8 December 2018. The TV commercial was broadcast on the TV channel Woohoo on 8 December from 6am to 8pm.

Coca‑Cola Helped Shape the Image of Santa So Coca‑Cola commissioned Michigan-born illustrator Haddon Sundblom to develop advertising images using Santa Claus - showing Santa himself, not a man dressed as Santa. For inspiration, Sundblom turned to Clement Clark Moore's 1822 poem "A Visit From St.

In 1931, Coca-Cola was the first company that executed a marketing campaign for Christmas with Santa. Coca-Cola commissioned Michigan-born illustrator Haddon Sundblom to create the Santa Claus image for their ads. He simply refined the Santa Claus image created by Nast and Rockwel.

However, the record-holder for the shortest-ever ad is Seattle-based seafood restaurant chain Ivar's, which aired a half-second regional ad in the 2009 Super Bowl. Consumers can watch the ad at all different speeds, and uncover the DoorDash discount code for themselves, at www.HeinzEnjoyedSlow.com.

Old Spice's Inception-style TV ad is the longest ever at 14 hours - and will run forever online. If you have a product which lasts "forever" then what's the most appropriate way to advertise it? Well, how about with a commercial that will also never end?

Clement Clarke Moore and the Night Before Christmas Clement's poem, originally titled A Visit from St. Nicholas, soon became known as the classic The Night Before Christmas and was so popular that within a decade it had become canon with regard to the Santa legend.

In 1915, White Rock Water in San Francisco was the first company to include Santa in an advertising campaign. They depicted him with a white beard driving a sleigh full of White Rock carbonated water. He was a jolly old fellow who didn't even need reindeer to deliver water.

Thomas Nast One of the first artists to define Santa Claus's modern image was Thomas Nast, an American cartoonist of the 19th century who immortalized Santa Claus with an illustration for the 3 January 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly in which Santa was dressed in an American flag, and had a puppet with the name "Jeff" written on it, ...

Where did Santa Claus come from? The Dutch are credited with transporting the legend of St. Nicholas (Sinterklaas) to New Amsterdam (now New York City), along with the custom of giving gifts and sweets to children on his feast day, December 6.

30 Seconds 30 Seconds is the Ideal TV Commercial Length Studies completed by the World Advertising Research Center have shown that 30-second spots are ideal in order to effectively tap into all three components of a good brand-building television commercial.