Aldi celebrates Aussie Christmas traditions in new campaign from BMF

Aldi has ditched its surfing Santas for its Christmas campaign this year, opting instead to tell the story of Johan who returns home to his small snow covered village Julbacken after a trip to Australia to tell of a summer Christmas, with the village soon coming around to celebrating Christmas in the Aussie-tradition with Aldi-selected produce.

The two-minute long spot, created by BMF, chronicles the village’s disgust at the idea of an Aussie Christmas, including prawns, cricket and surfing, with the spot paying subtle homage to the surfing Santas work. It aims to put to bed the idea that a white Christmas is the norm or the perfect Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaZ1hvXW0A

BMF creative director Alex Booker said: “Like any Aussie kid, I’ve grown up feeling our Christmas was inferior to that of our Northern Hemisphere brethren with their trademark white Christmas.

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