You wanna see four excellent Christmas ads?
Here ya go.
PRE-RAMBLE to free subscribers:
This is not a hobby; this is my job, my only source of income. Therefore: I am not lowering my paywall now, next year, ever. And, I’m not stopping my Substack, next year, the year after, the year after, that, and so on.
So, basically, you’re completely wasting your time here.
I’ve lowered my annual price to $40 through December. Substack won’t allow me to lower my monthly rate lower than $5.
I’ve been a pro (as in, paid) ad blogger for 20 years. I was a copywriter/creative director for 35 years. I’ve won all the awards, if you care about that bullshit. I even judged several awards shows, but only one time each: they didn’t invite me back because I was too harsh of a critic. (What were they expecting.)
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None of these ads are from this year, obviously, because this year’s X-Mas ads range from, at best, mediocre, to boring to pandering to fucking terrible.
I know lots of y’all feel this is “the most wonderful time of the year” (it isn’t), so enjoy some actual wonderful Christmas advertising creativity, paid subscribers.
Non-paying subscribers, see these four ads and become part of the “in crowd” by buying me an X-Mas present (for now, only $40/year) right here, scrooges.