The article is written by Greg Taylor, Director of Brand Provocation at Elmwood, London

It’s that time of year again here in the UK. Our TV screens are being hit with a blizzard of yuletide advertising. The retailers in particular vie for bragging rights as to who has the best ‘Christmas campaign’. This time around, Waitrose and John Lewis particularly struck me. For international readers, Waitrose is the chain of supermarkets of the John Lewis Partnership, which also has a chain of department stores called, you guessed it, ‘John Lewis’. 

Iconic British spread Marmite has launched a pre-Christmas campaign for its Gold version in London encompassing both social media and DOOH channels to give its fans a munite of fame.

As a first stage, Marmite invited all its fans (and even foes) to have some fun with its new app allowing to submit users’ photos which then appear on a large digital screen of the famous Christmas lights on Oxford Street.

Honda UK  is promoting its new CR-V vehicle with Google Street View, encouraging drivers to get into one of the four terrains—snow, mountains, urban or forest,—first in the virtual space and then offline, behind the wheel of their all-new CR-V. To embark on the «Do-More-New» virtual journey, users are asked to enter their postcode and then choose one of the terrains. On doing that, they are directed to one of 12 locations across the UK, which represent land reliefs with different driving conditions.