Some stockings are luckier than others, Apple tells us. They've released a new Busby Berkeley-style Radio City Music Hall-inspired Holiday advertisement that showcases their line of Christmas-worthy gifts. Don't know about you, but I rather like it. Dancing iPods. Dancing laptops. Dancing LCD displays. No more "Silent Nights" once you get an iPod, indeed.
Dancing iProducts: Apple's new Holiday Advert
Posted Dec 15th 2006 12:30PM by Erica Sadun
Filed under: Apple
Tags: Advertising, Apple, Christmas, Holidays
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
12-15-2006 @ 12:48PM
Bunker said...
HAHAHAHA, that's funny. I like.
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12-15-2006 @ 12:57PM
Huy said...
Theme from Love Actually, beautiful.
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12-15-2006 @ 1:04PM
Will K said...
Why no Mac Pro? (lol)
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12-15-2006 @ 1:22PM
christine said...
I LOVE IT!
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12-15-2006 @ 1:29PM
Peter Witham said...
Another very clever advertising idea, you have to give credit to Apple for their marketing pitches.
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12-15-2006 @ 1:31PM
cristian said...
the ad is great
the music sux xD
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12-15-2006 @ 1:33PM
Richard said...
I don't think this is an advert, this is displayed in their Apple Stores as a screensaver.
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12-15-2006 @ 1:43PM
Si said...
Score another one for the Apple advertising machine. Very clever, entertaining and with a smidgen of humour thrown in. Excellent. Sony, take note.
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12-15-2006 @ 1:46PM
anon said...
By your logic, if they displayed "I'm a Mac" ads as a screensaver they would no longer be advertisements. Of course not, so why wouldn't this Mac and iPod promotional ad be one as well.
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12-15-2006 @ 1:47PM
Shreedhan said...
Why no MacPros? or Cinema Displays? or their other very high-end, expensive products that you'd need to be incredibly rich to afford as simple presents? Oh wait, the reason I just said lol. I wasn't too fond of the ad at first but the shuffles clipping on to the red ribbon made me chuckle. Not a bad ad.
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12-15-2006 @ 1:48PM
Andrew leitch said...
it looks very similar to the 2005 promo video available on MacTV
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12-15-2006 @ 2:07PM
Wheels said...
Mac Pros aren't targeted towards the average home consumer. With that being said, where are the Mac minis?
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12-15-2006 @ 2:21PM
Thayne Miller said...
yeah I really wanted to see some mac minis in there. Those are just awesome stocking stuffers!
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12-15-2006 @ 2:31PM
its_santa_claus said...
who has actually seen this as a commercial on broadcast TV? looks more like the screen saver at your local retail store set to a musical background. also the last frame does not reference a url which almost every real commercial does.
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12-15-2006 @ 2:39PM
Shunnabunich said...
Mac Pro isn't included because the iPods, iMacs and MacBooks are obviously skating on ice, and you would only see the Mac Pro for an instant as it flashed past the screen and dropped straight through.
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12-15-2006 @ 2:58PM
niclet said...
Yes, well the music is really bad :(
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12-15-2006 @ 3:07PM
iMatt said...
I'll bet it took about 20 minutes to create with Leopard's new Core Animation!
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12-15-2006 @ 3:15PM
Billy Bob Morton said...
When is Apple going to dump the iMac and make something worth buying? I want a Mac mini or Mac Cube with a 3.5" hard drive and real video card dancing on ice thank you.
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12-15-2006 @ 4:31PM
mike said...
BRILLIANT!!
"a gift they'll open every day"
haha
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12-15-2006 @ 5:02PM
laanba said...
I love it too. I wish Apple would do something like this for television. It's refreshing to see something beside the iPods in an Apple commercial. I think combining the computers and iPods, as in this spot, would be a great advertisement.
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