Every christmas screws many of the big companies up to the advertising expenditure and get made big Hollywood-like productions to get people to turn up for the consumption up to the festive season.
But this year, neither companies such as Coca-Cola or Heathrow airport who are taking the internet by storm.
instead, it is a homemade advertisement for the family-owned hardware store business Haford Hardware in Rhyadar in Wales, that warms hearts everywhere, where it will be shared on the social media.
It writes CNN.
the Business is owned by Tom Jones, as the last three years, has filmed and produced its advertisements and shared them on the internet.
this year, the advertising protagonist Tom Jones’ own two-year-old son, Arthur. The cute video shows the little boy awake, take on the work and helping out in his father’s store up to christmas.
After Tom Jones put the advertisement on Youtube 1. december is the only away been seen over 680.000 times and has been assigned more than 10,000 likes. On Facebook the at the time of writing had close to 200,000 page views, and Twitter has more than 270,000 users clicked on the play button.
– We have had great response the last two years, but it is nothing compared to this year. It has been absolutely crazy, ” said Tom Jones to CNN.
– We’re doing it really just for fun. We try to put a little focus on small independent businesses, which one finds in the rural areas such as this, and we try to show that we can offer as much as the big chains, ” says store owner on.
Tom Jones got the help of his friend Josh Holdaway to make the film. He tells us that they spent one day and 100 pounds – the equivalent of 885 Danish kroner on the project. The money went to pay to use a recording studio and a sound engineer for the soundtrack, which is used in the film.
– Arthur was great – the tasks he performed in the video, was not abnormal. He comes and helps in the shop most days, says the shop owner.