{"id":102929,"date":"2015-11-03T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=102929"},"modified":"2015-11-03T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:36:15","slug":"watch-the-advert-that-ruined-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/102929\/watch-the-advert-that-ruined-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The advert that &#8216;ruined Christmas&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"_dwd st s std\">PayPal, the online payments company co-founded by <span class=\"st\">entrepreneur and philanthropist, Elon Musk, has come under fire for an advert it aired in the UK.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The advert, which depicts two little brothers trying to catch their parents bringing home presents for Christmas, received in excess of 230 complaints to the UK <span class=\"_dwd st s std\"> Advertising Standards Authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2015\/nov\/03\/paypal-christmas-ad-gets-hundreds-of-complaints-for-implying-santa-isnt-real\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a> reported that complainants found the advert to be <span class=\"_dwd st s std\">offensive for ruining Christmas, suggesting that Santa does not exist because only parents were seen to be buying all the presents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_dwd st s std\">Complaints also noted that the advert was inappropriately scheduled on TV. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just want to take a moment to say we\u2019re sorry that some people have been upset by our new UK Christmas TV advert,\u201d\u00a0 a spokesperson for PayPal told The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ad aims to take a fun look at those Christmas presents kids know come from their parents, and not in any way say Father Christmas doesn\u2019t also deliver presents to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdu0WKIhjeU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on media<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/102589\/watch-cell-cs-raunchy-new-advert\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: Cell C\u2019s raunchy new advert<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Watch: The end of the Rainbow Nation in South Africa\" target=\"_blank\">Watch: The end of the Rainbow Nation in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal, the online payments company co-founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist, Elon Musk, has come under fire for an advert it aired in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":68322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2662,26,149],"class_list":["post-102929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-elon-musk","tag-headline","tag-paypal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102929"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102945,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102929\/revisions\/102945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}