I will start with this one - which brought a tear to my eye
My son shared that with me yesterday it is so wonderful!
I have watched that one multiple times since finding it in my Twitter feed a few days ago. Your Song is my favorite song ever and this melts me every time. Love it!
My all-time favorite is the John Lewis ad from 2014:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iccscUFY860
The Elton John ad is also from John Lewis, but I love the penguin ad most of all. It always makes me cry!
I like the LL Bean commercial where the kids think the Grinch has stolen Christmas.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YvFXUe2e_cA
KMart Holiday version ‘Ship My Pants’ commercial!
https://youtu.be/tvXBbsRU83Q
This one’s for a British supermarket chain.
Not an ad for a product but a great message.
https://www.charlottestories.com/local-charlotte-church-released-christmas-video-thats-going-viral-4-million-views/
This one of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb-1gpXQT0Y
Publix commercials make me cry year round! Love this one from Apple a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v76f6KPSJ2w
“I have watched that one multiple times since finding it in my Twitter feed a few days ago. Your Song is my favorite song ever and this melts me every time. Love it!”
I really like the ads and I do like the song but Ellie Goulding’s version is my favorite. I believe she sang it at William and Kate’s wedding.
I’ve watched the ad [Elton John / John Lewis] in the OP multiple times before there was a thread here, and I cry every single time. It is so good, in my opinion.
@maya54, you wrote:
I had never heard of Ellie Goulding and so watched her version which is delightful for sure. Still, I can’t really think of comparing these two videos. Hers is simply a nice cover. The Elton John video/ad has various meanings that a cover just doesn’t have. The video shows a little boy (presumably Elton as a lad) being given a piano as a holiday gift by his mother and grandmother. Not only was he given the gift of the chance to make music, but he has given his gift of song to millions for so many years (huge longevity in what can be a fleeting field for artists). AND the song is called “Your Song” and speaks to that meaning as well (“my gift is my song”). The video shows him over the years sharing his gift of music, which was originally given to him as a gift as a child by parents who believed in him. To me, that is the true essence of the video, which I just can’t compare to the Goulding video because that is merely the cover of a beautiful song, and she didn’t write it either. The video doesn’t share the same story either. Elton John not only wrote this song, but the video shows him sharing it over years and years. The 2 videos just feel like two different things. I guess I can’t even consider them “different versions.” Also, while Ellie’s video is lovely and she has a very nice voice too, I didn’t shed a tear (not that that indicates not being great!), but that is another difference…the story depicted in the Elton John video is a story, based on real life (his life) that holds meaning and resonates (at least to me…I do have a kid in the arts, and I don’t know if that affects me, or if this video would do so no matter).
PS: Maybe this biased me (though I’m not sure that it biased me other than adding a nice twist), but my D is collaborating with Elton on a project. The two have been working together in person this year and she says he is as nice as can be. She recently got to fly with him on his private plane to one of his concerts and saw everything behind the scenes and watched the concert from right in front of the stage and said it was the best concert she has ever seen. There are not a lot of artists who have had careers like his. So, that video showing him supposedly being gifted the piano and then sharing his gift with the world, tugs at my heartstrings!
Bunsen, that Freshpet video is hilarious! It started off a little slow but by the end I was :)) =)) . Must have been fun to film that one.
This one from McVities is my perennial favorite
@patsmom - the pets in the video were form a shelter and up for adoption at the time the video was made. This article has a link to a video about making the commercial. Lots of work! 
https://www.wideopenpets.com/holiday-feast-dogs-cats-wish-invited/
stumbled on this - none of the Elton clips from the past are actually him - totally had me fooled! - check out the making of the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cA7RjKcbk8
Thanks, I enjoyed that. I did not think any of the younger ones were really Elton except the Concert one I did assume was him. Curious that they could not just use old footage of him for the adult scenes.