Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
~Steuart Henderson Britt
Directly below is the very first commercial shown on British television. It was an advertisement for Gibbs SR toothpaste. It was transmitted on the evening of 22nd September 1955. It is interesting to have watched it once but it is just too dry and too informative, to the point of patronising, to watch over and over.
Obviously Mad Men of Advertising agencies have not been to sophisticated then!
First Commercial on British Tv
My favourite commercial is of white horses leaping side by side with surfers among giant waves. This is made apparently in 1998, so it is quite old and yet just too memorable to forget easily. The only thing though was that I had forgotten what the product it was advertising until I saw the video below on youtube.