I came across a number of beautiful digital gifts (videos and photos), see the links below. There are fantastic collections of pictures and plenty of good commercials – partly with a profound, touching message. Some of them are real treasures – enjoy!
I put short comments to help you to orient. May you have a good Christmas time and all the best for 2018!
1. Photos
- Advent Calendar with space photos – a must-see ! The calendar is still running
- 2017 in Volcanic Activity – fiery world!!!
- Winners of the 2017 National Geographic Photo Contest – sublime
- Hopeful Images from 2017 – Touching
2. Commercials – Videos 1 (Not Christmas commercials)
- “We’ll take care of you, wherever you are.” – Samsung India Service (SVC). Great! Very well done and touching! More than 150 Mio views. Showing a technician on his way to a particular repair order in the Himalayas.
- Ping Pong Trick Shots 3
- Kia Niro commercial
Funny - Marconi Union – Weightless (Official Video) Relaxing Video – A ballet of drones dancing over a mountain lake. About the band – Article about the video
3. Commercials – Videos 2 (Christmas commercials)
- Christmas in the Andes – together it will be better! – by OTTO – Extraordinary, very well done. My favorite
- Christmas – a time for reconciling – A moving commercial from Penny
- Gifts of a homeless man – German Railway / Deutsche Bundesbahn
- “Miracles don’t happen, you make them” – a demented women from an old age home, sees again the home of her youth – well done!
- Christmas, a festival of love – A robot in search of Christmas. Nice Edeka “end time” commercial
- Becoming friend of a monster – John Lewis Christmas campaign, something for children.
- London Heathrow Bears – cute
- Find your fairytale Christmas – a modern Cinderella
- Apple: A “christmas-neutral” spot, playfully dancing
- “Beautifully normal” – celebrate your kind of Christmas – a bit weird but “it need not be perfect….”
- A Christmas Miracle of animals in a forest – in German
Picture from the Video: Gemeinsam wird’s Weihnachten – Der OTTO-Weihnachtsfilm 2017