Adam & Eve's new John Lewis spot launched to huge reception

Date
17 September 2012

It was the defining question of last Christmas _ did you find Adam & Eve’s John Lewis advert a tearjerking reminder of what the holiday season could and should be about or did you find it unbearably smug and schmalzy? Either way it was hailed as monster success, scooping awards and apparently contributing to a bumper year for the store.

Since then Adam & Eve have been bought by DDB and Saturday night saw the debut of the new Never Knowingly Undersold splitscreen spot. It has some of the same key ingredients – high production values, a contemporary musician covering an 1980s track (in this case Paloma Faith doing INXS’ Never Tear us Apart) and emotional appeal by the bucketload, and it’s likely to similarly polarise opinion.

It doesn’t feel massively original but on its own terms there’s little doubting its power and for a big, family brand aiming for a mainstream audience (the ad was first shown during The X Factor) this advert ticks all the right boxes. More than that it’s been all over social media in the past few days and there are some neat touches such as the art gallery shot. By pitch-perfectly fulfilling its brief, Adam & Eve seem to have done it again,

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Adam & Eve: Never Knowingly Undersold (still)

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Adam & Eve: Never Knowingly Undersold (still)

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Adam & Eve: Never Knowingly Undersold (still)

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Adam & Eve: Never Knowingly Undersold (still)

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Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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