Add Some Meaning to your Halloweening with UNICEF

I just wanted to share a commercial that came out last Halloween season from Unicef. Now the big U and Halloween have gone hand-in-hand together for over 70 years helping kids with fresh water and food. Last year they had their annual Halloween commercial that just is the coolest, most atmospheric one to date. I absolutely love it.

The 30-sec film is practically the most Halloween commercial ever, at least in the days of Covid. It is this small, quick package of wonderful, and the message is a good one, too. It features a pair of really cool blow mold ghosts, some jack-o'-lanterns, a scarecrow that I think winks at me, and a TV stuck on a dead channel. It's a shame that those cute little orange milk cartons for collecting quarters are no longer a thing, but it appears that the carton has given way to a digital giving experience via the QR code above.

Here's the video below from their YouTube channel. It's a favorite of mine, and I've been watching it this Halloweentober even though it wasn't on television like it was last year.

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