‘The Force’ advert by Volkswagen received the second highest number of votes as being the best advert of the year, behind John Lewis. The advert appeals to the child in all of us, as the mini-Darth Vader uses the Force on his dad’s car.

Neck-and-neck with Haribo for most annoying ad of the year is Go Compare – another ad which features the main character singing. How could we not expect Gio Compario to be on this list?

An advert which risked being banned by the ASA, Phones4U’s ‘Missing our deals will haunt you’ campaign received several positive comments - and one negative comment from a tweeter who said it was fine at Halloween but seemed a bit redundant at Christmas.

The meercats also led to debate with our twitter followers. Some loved the exploits of Aleksandr Orlov and chums as they stress to the world they should be using Compare the Market for insurance, not Compare the Meercat.

Last but not least on The Drum reader’s top ten most memorable ads for 2011 is another Christmas one – Harvey Nichols ‘Walk of Shame’. Because while doing a walk of shame the morning after is bad, everything is ok if you are wearing a nice dress and you can still manage to walk in your heels. A funny, if slightly unconventional, Christmas advert.

Other suggestions from Twitter followers, which didn’t get enough votes to be featured in the top ten, included Yeo Valley, Nokia Lumia, Cravendale’s cat with thumbs, Halifax and Twinings. We’ll leave you to decide which ones were voted good and which ones were voted bad.