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The Warehouse goes long, launches Christmas campaign with kid-filled online video
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The Warehouse Group has been bringing the real world and the online world closer together recently, with its recent rebrand of R&R Sport to the ‘omni-channel’ Torpedo 7, its Click Madness promotion, free wifi in the newly refurbished stores and an app that lets shoppers compare prices. Now it’s launching its Christmas campaign with a five minute online video that puts the decision-making in the hands of the experts: kids.

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A compendium of Christmas commercials
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The best way to embrace Christmas is to accept the unbridled commercialism of it all with open arms. So sit back, relax and enjoy some of the creative efforts that the capitalist machine used this year to convince shoppers to part with their cash.

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Christmas knits get another casting call
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Hard on the heels of Coke Zero’s website that put the ugly yuletide jersey in the spotlight, beer brand Budweiser is doing the same, but this time it’s for a serious cause. The Knitbot supports and rewards designated drivers using tweet power.

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Ghosts of Christmases past
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TV and movie streaming service Netflix has gone all warm and fuzzy with the story of a Christmas tree-topping ornament who’s seen it all. As the porcelain decorated character says, it’s hard not to smile when a happy expression is painted on your face.

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The real Christmas spirit?
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It’s supposedly better to give than receive. But tell that to the capitalist hordes trampling on their fellow humans in order to get 50 percent off some crappy goods they probably don’t need. So as the scmaltzy Christmas ads about family and generosity and animated animals come thick and fast, upmarket UK department store Harvey Nichols has taken a different, possibly more honest approach and launched a campaign that promotes cheaping out on gifts for others and spending all your money on yourself.

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Kim Dotcom’s Mega Christmas ruins Santa for children, but provides plenty of laughs for the grown ups
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Twas the night before the night before Christmas, and Rudolph is hungover in the corner. Mrs Claus gives a bourbon fuelled rant about how her life with Santa is no fairy tale. She stumbles off stage, but not before threatening Rudolph with a shit-stained dildo. Thus ending the opening scene of Mega Christmas, playing at the Basement Theatre in Auckland this week.

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Gobs smacked over Tangible Media’s stupendous subscription deal
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There is nothing quite like a magazine subscription for a gift idea and at Tangible Media, we have a magazine for everyone on your shopping list. Plus Tangible Media is offering you, the people, a deal. Not only will you be remembered all year for your thoughtfulness and generosity, you’ll also get 40 percent off the retail cover price when you subscribe to one (or perhaps a few) of the many Tangible titles before Monday 9 January.

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Inside the divide: what Kiwi dads and sons want for Christmas
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Colmar Brunton is in the midst of launching its new Youth division, bringing in Spencer Willis of 18 and 18tracker fame to spearhead the initiative. And it looks like he’s brought one of his old habits with him, because he’s started producing free reports on youth culture for general consumption and entertainment. And the first of many out of the newly named CByouth camp is ‘Baby Boomer Dad’s and Gen Y Sons’.

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Stop shouting, start listening
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With less than a month until Christmas the festive retail market could best be described as challenging. The latest consumer confidence survey by ANZ – Roy Morgan suggests most consumers remain cautious about their spending plans this festive season. And, despite personal tax cuts, 38 percent of those surveyed in November said they were worse off financially than a year ago. So now, more than ever, it is essential that our advertising and marketing is effective.

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Gobs smacked as Tangible Media offers festive subscription deal
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Nothing says Christmas like a magazine subscription (especially if it’s a subscription to Christmas Monthly). And Tangible Media is offering you, the people, a deal. Not only will you be remembered all year for your thoughtfulness and generosity, you’ll also get 40 percent off the retail cover price when you subscribe to one (or perhaps a few) of the many Tangible titles before Saturday 4 December. And as if that deal wasn’t sweet enough, it’s been sweetened even further by Monteith’s, which will be dishing out one dozen of its new premium drop Single Source to ten lucky subscribers.

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Christmas advertising blitzkrieg begins, charities rail against crap gifts once again
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‘Tis the season to embarrass yourself at the workplace Christmas party. ‘Tis also the season to think about presents for your loved—or, if Secret Santa’s on offer, unloved—ones. And while it’s tempting to get everyone you know a life size cardboard of yourself, charities are making their annual call for us to resist our childish, consumerist urges and instead be more grown up in our approach to giving.

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Kiwi Chrissy advertisers embrace the online space
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As the Christmas retail season gets into full-swing, retailers hoping to get their share of the consumer spending action are ramping up their online advertising activities, with a 31 percent increase in the number of advertisers on the Internet and a 26 percent increase in the number of campaigns in the two months from September to November 2009, according to Nielsen data.

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Share your jolly season jollies
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’Tis the season to be jolly.

Jolly silly, that is. Stoppress heard the story of an Auckland banker who this week staggered back to work after a night on the tiles, without his wallet and his phone and soaked through by the rain. Intending to doss down at the office …

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Animal lovers to give animal love
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Christmas is a time of family, binge-eating and falling asleep in the ambrosia at 3pm. But for some of our fellow beasts, as you can see in the Save the Children fund’s top-notch stop motion Animal Love dating video, Christmas often just enhances their crushing loneliness.

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