Apple’s Holiday Ad Starring Loner Teen Will Bring a Tear to Your Eye
Posted in: UncategorizedThe best holiday ads we’ve seen this year have come out of the U.K., where Christmas is the nation’s Super Bowl when it comes to advertising. But now Apple is entering the fray with what turns out to be one of the season’s most heartfelt commercials, “Misunderstood.” It tells the story of a teen who joins his family for the Christmas holiday. But from what we see, he’s only there in body — as his family frolics in the snow and decorates the tree, he sits off to the side, apparently checked out of the festivities as he checks into his iPhone.
In the end, however, it turns out the boy was there all along — creating arguably the family’s best present of the year. Apple also posted the full-length version of that gift, “A Harris Family Holiday,” shot entirely on the iPhone 5s, on YouTube:
The ad takes a now familiar approach for digital marketers, slyly showing the product as promoter of community and social interaction, rather than encouraging introversion.
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