Banned Christmas Ads 2024. Supermarket chain iceland has said it will not roll out a christmas advert this year and will instead spend the money supporting its customers. Created by mccann manchester, matalan's festive campaign for 2021 sees three people share their christmas.

In 2008, a shell advert was banned for claiming to provide sustainable energy by extracting oil from tar sands in canada. Of course, every year there’s always huge anticipation around this epic advertising battle.