15 Weird and Wonderful Company Holiday Cards

Written by: Jami Oetting
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It's that time of year again, when agencies use all their remaining creativity and joyful spirit to create festive holiday cards, videos, and websites. It's also the time where agency staffers are given free reign to get downright weird. And thankfully, this year did not disappoint.

If you're looking for messages of goodwill and hope for humanity, you won't find it in these examples. But you will find awkward people dancing around in onesies, a hipster santa, and a Pomeranian in 12 different outfits -- and isn't that the most you can hope for this holiday?

Check out this list of the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of agency holiday cards. (Warning: The audio in #3 is NSFW.)

1) Exit10

There's nothing like pelting your co-workers with snowballs to spread a little good cheer around the office. Exit 10 used a Phantom camera to film the slow-motion, icy attack. 

2) AKQA

The agency created a website that can turn your phone into a virtual snow globe. When you this website on a mobile device and shake the screen, it'll start to snow (on your screen, not in real life). If you rotate the phone, you'll see other parts of the winter landscape inside the globe. You can even write your own message and send the globe to your friends and family by email or social media. (Go ahead, check it out! We'll wait right here.)

akqa snow

akqa snow 3

akqa snow 2

3) Ogilvy & Mather Paris

If Christmas was the product of an advertising stunt, this video shows it would look a lot different. This video from Oglivy & Mather shows what it might be like if the concept of Christmas was pitched to a focus group -- and it brings up some questions about the strange traditions we all accept. 

(Warning: Audio is NSFW.)

4) Plan B

Plan B brings the "Elf on the Shelf" to the agency world to report on who's being naughty and who's being nice -- both in their dealings with clients and their professional behavior in the office. 

5) Brokaw

The holidays are a time of joy, laughter ... and, quite possibly, shame fueled by free alcohol and inordinate amounts of sugar at your office holiday party. But thanks to Cleveland-based Brokaw's post-holiday apology-maker, you might just be able to atone for your behavior. 

brokaw

6) Brownstein Group

The agency used popular movies as inspiration for a set of holiday-themed posters. Check out three of them below, inspired by Diehard, Home Alone, and Jingle All the Way respectively.

Brownstein Group

inspiration from Home Alone

Inspired by Jingles All the Way

7) Organic

Organic tries to erase fruitcake's bad reputation with the Fruitcake-O-Matic. The site lets you create your own treat and send it to a friend -- and the agency is sending 20 real cakes to users each day. 

organic fruitcake

8) Wunderman

Wunderman created a "12 Days of GIFAWAYS," where a "snowbro" plays a charades-type game and viewers guess what he's acting out to win a gift. (You need to be in the U.S. and have a Twitter account to enter.)

wunderman gifaways

9) The Pita Group

 The holidays can be a stressful time. Luckily, this agency decided to take it out on fruitcake, not clients in this stragely beautiful, very satisfying high-defitinion video.

10) The Duffy Agency

The Duffy Agency created an Instagram Christmas tree with ornaments featuring the faces of the agency's friends and business partners. Is your face on there?

The Duff Agency

Did I miss any? Let me know in the comments!

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