Retailer launches ad a week earlier than usual after surge in online searches for festive products
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Christmas for this year’s festive ad, with an alien stepping in where a dragon, penguin and monster under the bed have gone before.
For more than a decade John Lewis’s festive ad has become a big annual TV moment that kicks off the Christmas shopping season. This year it has launched a week earlier than usual after a rise in searches for Christmas products on the department store’s websites, as shoppers try to dodge supply problems in the run-up to the big day.