Santa Claus is widely known today as a jolly old ... Debuting in the popular Saturday Evening Post, Coke ads with Sundblom's Santa were soon on newspapers, magazines, and billboards everywhere.

It just got that much easier to hear from Santa Claus this year ... To extended the holiday cheer, on Dec. 1, Coke and Cameo will host a live virtual event kicking off the 25 days of Christmas.

leaving Santa a plate of cookies and a Coke instead. The man who raised Santa Claus passed on in 1976, but not before contributing a few other enormous icons to America’s commercial culture ...

Santa Claus’s history with Coke (the soda, to be specific) stems from the 1920s, when designs similar to the ones created by Thomas Nast made their appearances in advertisements for the soft drink.