Yes, Margaret. In fact there's an entire channel in Cymraeg (Welsh). It is called S4C and carries programming from both the BBC and independent production companies.
@Nicky L Sorry Nicky. I'm not sure. I've seen Irish language channels when I've been flicking through when visiting or programmes being advertised but, of course, there's the complication of the Ulster Scots Irish language being slightly different to the Irish Irish language. I'd imagine it's a mix of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic. I have enough difficulty understanding Derry Girls at times!!! 😀
They used to have adverts that had a story arc in the UK. The Gold Blend Coffee adverts ran for 6 years with 12 adverts showing a romance that started with neighbours borrowing coffee. There was also the OXO family that ran for years. Even Birds Eye Beefburgers had adverts that were like a 45 second soap episode and had continuing stories but, in this case, featuring children.
Technically the Compare The Meerkat ads have had an ongoing story arc for the past decade or so, and there was a series of BT ads for a while around a family, with Kris Marshall. But, yeah, definitely was a bigger deal when it happened back with the Gold Blend ads.
That is why Soaps are called Soaps, it was from a Soap advert that had a story arc, that is where actual Soaps (Eastenders, Coronation Street, etc) are derived from, from what I understand anyway.
The best ads of the 80s and 90s were for alcohol and tobacco. Check out Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins' ads for Cinzano, the Carling Black Label ads and Hemlet cigars. Best ads but never induced me to buy any.
We do have some localised ads in the uk. I only noticed during covid when I’d video call my parents in the neighbouring county and we’d have the same programme on - suddenly I’d be watching an ad for my local taxi company and they’d have something else.
we need to talk about meerkats. So popular are the adverts that ToyRUs (rest in peace) were selling meerkat toys in dressing gowns and everyone knows the one word catchphrase.
i might be wrong, but wasn't there a few different versions of that ad, one with it on its' own, one 'in association with the guiness premier league' for the rugby, and one for non domestic?
@@cornishmaid9138 yeah, in the rugby version they replaced the white horses in the water with a rugby scrum, and instead of the guys celebrating on the beach, after the surfing scene was finished it cut to a black background with a load of rugby players of the time, then it cut to the guinness pint and the tag line of the advert.
@@cornishmaid9138 i'll be honest, you might need to really go digging through archives to find it because while the general advert lasted a long (ish) time, the rugby one was only around for that season of rugby, i never saw it after that, and due to the age of things it might be hard to find, i tried looking to link it before when explaining but couldn't find it on youtube lol.
There are a couple of adverts that were done in series like the Gold Blend Couple for coffee, Papa and Nicole for Renault cars, If you see Sid... Tell him!, and Maureen Lipman's for BT (phone company)
Who can remember the words to 1001, the carpet cleaner? 1001, 1001 gets rid of that workaday frown. 1001 cleans a big big carpet for less than half a crown! For less than half a crown!! Advertisers certainly knew what they were doing!
This is one reason why, where possible I record every TV programme I want to watch. I refuse to sit through inane adverts. Sometimes I may come across a programme that is live but then I commit it to a memory device or PVR to watch later minus adverts. That's my Tuppence worth.
On my first visit to the USA in the 90s, I was in a Washington DC hotel and excitedly turned on the TV. I looked at the thick catalogue of TV programmes and could not make sense of it so I chose just a random channel. After ten minutes I realised that it was actually an advert for something. So I turned it off and kept it off I. turned off my UK TV nearly three years ago and haven't watched TV at all since. My brain now feels nearly clean again.
Well done you. I'm not as good as you but heading in that direction, being that I only turn the TV on to watch something specific that is of interest to me. I'm more of a bookworm when I settle down to relax.
@@jaytucker8834 I first went TV-less in the late 90s because TV reception was bad. This time I thought "I've watched about 30 hours of TV max in the year" so I didn't renew the licence; it was easy as I didn't pay by direct debit. I watch Amazon Prime instead, mainly old programmes such as the Professionals, Sweeney, Red Dwarf....
I can't imagine telling a doctor which medication I want, self diagnosis from an ad seems worse than Dr Google! I feel much more secure in the concept that a doctor has spent years learning to know what is appropriate for me as an individual and what I am seeking help with.
Its even worse when you realise Drs in USA are payed by medication companies to sell you drugs. So you could have a drug that is 80% good for you, and your doctor will try and get you to take a drug thats only 70%.
American advertisers, especially the health insurance companies, are the equivalent of the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: all smiles until you take the bait and then you're trapped for life. I've been watching the NFL Preseason games on the NFL GamePass app with far too many American ads and not one of them would make me want to buy any of the products if they were available here. They are either the child catcher ads I mentioned or that plainly purile 'humour' that Americans seem to lap up. I'll be glad when the regular NFL season starts so that I can watch it on Sky Sports with British ads made for British adults! When Star Trek The Next Generation was first broadcast in the early 90s on BBC2 it was on for forty minutes without any ad breaks at all. I went to New York around the same time and watched an episode in my hotel room and it was on for an hour and went like this: Ads, Opening scene, ads, opening credits, ads, first part, ads, second part, ads, third part, ads, closing credits, ads! I'm convinced that tv shows in America are there for the benefit of the advertisers not the other way round.
Recommended - if you can find them, from the 80s:: 1 the Audi ad, showing a car being tested by being driven through 'glass' (spun sugar); 2 the Heinneken ads parodying art films.
My Fav adsm were PG Tips (when they had the chimps, Smash Potatoes advert with Robo Aliens, and the Hamlet Cigar With Bald Man. Oh I nearly forgot Hamlet Extra Mild Cigar Glow Worm advert - Which was only shown in the cinemas
Cider is a centuries old staple drink in the UK, particularly in the south-west where the cider apple orchards are; it's not considered 'girly' at all. As for adverts, they used to be really good and they used to be only about 6 mins per hour - not so any more.
ITV do have regional adverts. In Wales you get ads for welsh window companies and Trade Center Wales, which you do not get in England and I think they sometimes change the voiceovers to regional accents?
We have sharing bags of crisps in the UK too. They are popular for parties or movie nights. The multipacks of 6 (or more) small bags, are ideal of lunch boxes.
I guess another exception I think of in terms of 'all the same TV in the UK' is that there's a Welsh Language channel, S4C, which is in Wales but not the rest of the UK
Cadbury's Milk Tray adverts in the 80s and 90s during 'big' movies on TV. And more recently the generalised Cadbury half glass adverts like the Gorilla advert playing the drums. Probably the two (or one depending on how you look at it) adverts that always stuck with me.
Hi Joel here in Britain we have a wonderful piece of technology called the Mute button, and the Off switch, many people over the years have got so fed up with media in general the we mute adverts and look at one another and have conversions we have also stopped buying newspapers, to be honest not all ads are ignored as you, yourself has shown, some ads are of hi quality entertainment without being in your face, something the American Ad men should take note, is that American Ads are not to the British taste and the products are less likely to be taken notice of and bought in the UK, Hope your recent visit to the UK gave you some insight into British culture, your a good chap and doing an amazing job shining a light on world culture.
So true. If there are adverts on the telly, I just watch something on my phone until it's over. If there's an ad on my phone at the same time then I'll probably just have a quick wank.
Do not watch much TV, really hate when an ad break occurs at a key moment, stop this by recording programmes and skipping over the ads. As for newspapers cannot remember the last time I bought one.
@@beccawoodhouse General questions. Do you think you have the right to use any output from the BBC if, by the sound of it, you don't pay the licence fee? That includes most local radio and hundreds of websites. Personally I would disallow people being able to access any BBC product unless you type in the number of your valid TV licence.
@@karenblackadder1183 Did you read what Becca wrote? She did not claim to watch BBC. And what are these hundreds of websites? Personally I would make BBC subscription only.
Have always, since childhood, muted adverts (apart from ones that I genuinely enjoyed). I would rather make boring small talk with my family, especially now, than have to listen to Phillip Schofield harp on about Webuyanycar, or Rylan Clark talk about "cinching" it.
I just did the colon cancer screening test at home. I live in the UK, you just follow the directions and sent it back. I got the all clear within a week or two. Thank you the NHS
My name is Adam I'm an ant eater, I eat ant's by the meter, I find them under stones, and i find them under rock's, but I'd rather have a bowl of Coco pops...... never forget xx 😄
I remember George Harrison of the Beatles being interviewed and he said he got confused with American TV because he never knew where the program ended and the adverts began where in England we had End of Part one then the adverts would be begin for 5 minutes then part two, I understand now I've seen Fred Flintstone smoking that would never happen in England
One big advert I think was in the late 60s - 70s and it was the Cadbury's Flake advert ( I do believe that you and friends have eaten some as gifts ) , the advert got stopped but it was not the product but the way it was eaten . Dare you to eat a flake with friends first and then look at the adverts ( about 5 ) and still eat another one lol
Networks have local ad inserts. There are times in their schedule where they break away from the network and each market plays it's local commercials and other content.
BBC, of course, still carries no ads, except for its World News channel. I only worked in the US for a total of ten years, and was initially shocked when patients would ask me to prescribe a particular branded medication. My response was always, "I prescribe what I think best, as I'm your physician. If you want a drug of your own choice, find yourself a dealer." A few grumbled, and a handful left in high dudgeon, but most accepted that my 10 years of university probably meant I knew more than their 30 seconds watching a TV commercial. Also, the two commentators seem unaware that there are two entirely different TV channels in Wales, one in Welsh only. So regional TV is not extinct in the UK.
I've noticed recently, the BBC programmes that used to be an hour long, are now about 45 minutes long, and I'm wondering if that is to allow space for advertising on American channels, that the BBC may be selling content to. Does BBC America carry advertising ?
@@jonmac3995 quite a few of the BBC nature documentaries would have about 10-15 minutes at the end of how they got the footage for the episode, I believe this was cut from the American/International version so they.could show ads
as someone from the US i was so perplexed when i first heard of a commercial for john lewis, obviously i had no idea it was a store in the UK, here in the states John Lewis is someone honorably respected, i will not explain more since there is no way i can do him justice so please if anyone does not know him researched him
When I worked for a top-40 radio station in San Francisco many years ago, we used to speed-up the music by 10 or 20%. That was make it sound more energetic. That was a thing back then.
any carling black label advert with Mark Arden and Stephen Frost. i miss them. bloody hilarious. my favourite being the damn busters one but they where all good
Here in Australia a tv network was bought by CBS America and one of the first things they did was close production of the news and moved it to an east coast state. Using an east coast presenter and weather reports are done from the same east coast studio.
We DO have local adverts on STV and on ITV in England and Wales. You even get localised adverts for Glasgow and the West of Scotland and Edinburgh and the east, and it's same for the rest of the UK.
He said there 'was' only STV covering Scotland as a region, didn't Border TV, presumably cover the south of Scotland as well as Northumberland and Cumbria? And what did they used to recieve in the IoM? Vaguely remember the name "Grampian" of old too?
Great ads from the past, I'm a secret lemonade drinker, You've been Tangoed, Luton Airport, Watch out there's a Humphrey about, Leonard Rossiter and Dame Joan Collins series of Cinzano ads, all the old PG Tips monkey ads, Boddington and Follow the Bear (Hoffmeister beer) series just to name a few.
Joe pointed out we now have programme sponsorship and product placement. However, there’s a big difference in how they are implemented here. A programme sponsor is forbidden from having any influence or editorial input over the content of the programme. If a sponsor is unhappy with the content, their only option is to stop sponsoring it. Similarly, product placement must be “incidental”, in that it cannot influence the content. For example, the product can appear, but nobody can make any direct reference to it. Since you’ve been bombarded with Cadbury’s chocolate, you might want to look at some of their older ads. Search for Cadbury’s Smash and you’ll find some very amusing old ads from the 70s and 80s. There was also a whole series of semi-erotic ads for Cadbury’s Flake. You might be baffled by the Cadbury’s gorilla ad too. One of the most imaginative series of ads from decades ago (before tobacco ads were banned), was for Hamlet cigars - “Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet”, which were very amusing.
I think the Marmite ads are also some of the most imaginative in British advertising. So many great ones, but these are some of the best: th-cam.com/video/RG14sDcaJM0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/B_191RnWwww/w-d-xo.html
There are a couple of exceptions to that - You very occasionally see gameshows mention the e.g. holiday company that provided a holiday as a prize, and the brief revival of The Krypton Factor was entirely paid for by a single company, had extremely direct transition from their sponsorship into credits, and while there was a break, it was only used to promote programming rather than sell ads.
Thanks JP. I did give you the look, then you said, don't give me that look (Scotland) .... 😄 I dislike ads so much .... the majority of media news in the UK is so biased so we don't watch it, but most stuff we watch we've recorded and if there are adverts we fast-forward.
The Tennants lager “Caledonia” advert was brilliant back in the day in the UK. Remember watching it growing up. The Scottish guy leaves London to return to Edinburgh. Great tune too.
So funny... just as you paused to talk about how local car dealerships run ads, I was thinking "oh, and mattress stores, too"... then Evan comes in with mattress warehouses... those are the two big ones for sure when it comes to local ads.
On Freeview in the UK some areas have their own channel which has local news and programs. Sheffield has "Sheffield live" Norfolk used to have "mustard TV" (but I don't think that's operating any more). I'm not sure what the other ones are.
We have the Australian advert Cillit Bang, they used to show it as in Australia with the man shouting at you but have now toned it down so he just talks. Taffe316 has lots of British TV advert compilations.
I always remember the truly awful impressionist Jon Culshaw try to do a Barry Scott impression and he was, as he always is, truly awful! How that man ever got his own impressions show is beyond me while Rob Brydon just quietly lets his own fantastic impressions slip while he's hosting Would I Lie To You!
Fred flintstone got me hooked on smoking, usually when I'm watching TV and averts appear I put the kettle on for a cup of tea or go to the John. I sometimes like a catchy jingle on an ad, sometimes I have watched an advert 30/40 times with out actually knowing what they were advertising. I say to myself one day I will pay attention and see what they are really trying to sell me. But usually my mind goes blank when adverts appear.
Re UK television advertising, the following information is taken from the UK tv and radio listings magazine, The Radio Times, 27 Aug to 2 Sept 2022.... "Currently commercial public service broadcasters, that is ITV, STV, Channel 4, S4C, and Channel 5 are restricted to an average of 7 minutes of advertising per hour with an extra minute in primetime. Other commercial broadcasters are allowed up to 9 minutes per hour or longer in the case of teleshopping channels." That therefore is the current situation regarding commercial breaks on tv in the UK. All BBC channels in the UK, both tv and radio, contain no commercials or paid for advertising of course.
Regarding film speed both 16mm and 35mm film run at 24 frames per second. That will not scan for television so they run it at 25 frames per second. You can't hear the difference. I worked in a cinema where the projectors ran at 25 frames per second. They did for years and nobody noticed. The difference in run time of a program was minimal.
there are regional adverts in the uk, in the northeast we get frank's the flooring store with a tag line "i love carpets me" to my knowledge this is only shown in the north of england as thats the only place where they have stores
The drug companies just send branded post-it notes to our GPs instead. There’s a fight back campaign telling GPS to prescribe generics not branded drugs.
you mightve noticed on uk bags of crisps and sweets there was a traffic light chart telling you how much sugar and fat etc in the product your eating national food chains have calorie counts on the menu is now law
Joel: Whilst you where traveling around the UK you where in the former ITV regions of - Thames Television/London Weekend Television (London) HTV /West of England (when you where in Bath ) Yorkshire Television (York) STV Scottish Television( Edinburgh & Glasgow) Anglia Television (Stansted Airport)
You missed out one of the biggest, Granada (Northwest England) also ATV (Midlands) and Southern TV. Granada probably made the most programmes of any ITV company. Anglia I think only made 'Sale of the Century', Border TV only made a version of 'Mr and Mrs' (as did several other regional companies).
There are two differences between US and European TV. One is the frame rate, based on the mains power frequency, and the other is the colour system, NTSC vs PAL. It was the latter that caused the colour problems in the early days when showing American shows on British TV. Both of these are ameliorated if the source material is film, since the frame rate is the same worldwide, and each region can encode to their respective colour systems when broadcasting to TV. The colour conversion problem was fixed with the introduction of digital media and software-based conversion.
20 yrs ago I used to watch the TV series of Highlander. One time I was going through some webs sites about the show, and someone had literally written out word for word, every single script, for all six seasons. Each episode was written on a black background with each character's dialogue written in different colours. And at the end of these episodes, written in a odd colour, was written the words, EURO MINUTES, followed by a bit more dialogue. I had no idea what this was, as far as I knew, from already having seen the episode, this dialogue was the same as what I had seen. It would be like Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander, talking to his student about the fight he'd just had. Saying something on the lines of it was a good fight, and/or don't blame yourself, they left you no choice etc. A slap on the back, and a "watch your head" comment. Or a let's go to Joe's Bar, and raise a toast to X." Nothing major to the story, but it tidied up the end. It wasn't until I spoke to an American Highlander friend and mentioned these Euro Minutes, that she said, that was exactly what they were. That until she'd bought the DVDs of the show, she had never seen them, because they were only shown in Europe. Those extra minutes were cut from the show, purely to fit more adverts into the show. We get a lot of American shows here as you can imagine, and If you were to time the shows like, Highlander or Stargate SG1, 20 years ago, these shows averaged a run time of 46-47 minutes. Now, if you were to time the shows like Supernatural, Hawaii five 0, or on of the NCIS shows, they now average about 41-42 minutes. The rest is adverts.
The first time I saw adverts from the USA was in the early 1990's. One thing that was different back then was the USA ads would directly compare their product with a rival brand (eg Energizer vs Duracell batteries), but in the UK at that time you couldn't directly compare your product with a rival brand name, it would be Energizer batteries last 6 times longer than the "UK's leading brand". It's changed now as there are adverts on UK TV at the moment where the supermarkets name their rivals saying their prices are cheaper etc.
In the 80's Qualcast Concorde mowers had the slogan 'A lot less bother than a hover' And Flymo responded in an advert, then Qualcast company responded to that response, it was a mini war!
1 correction about localised ads in the UK, they are rare but they do exist, usually at times of the day when viewer numbers are low and the ads cost less to run. My local Harbourside shopping centre advertise in the evenings, usually at Xmas time. Also there is a company thats national but advertises the locality of their business.. (Ninja WarriorUK to be specific)
Jay Forman, what a star. One of the things I really didn't like in the States was TV. A lot of the programmes were barely so-so, news was pretty dire too, but advertising was the worst of the whole thing. Like they said, so many and all for meds, cars and lawyers. I think you've mentioned it before that the UK National Grid (electricity supply) had to be prepared for everyone putting the kettle on during ad breaks. Personally, I'm happy to pay my TV licence to not see adverts on at least a few channels. As for jingles, my favourite was "A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat", which my mate turned to "A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids gastroenteritis". No idea why he did that, but he did.
The kettle surge tended only to occur during major events, and was largely mitigated through liaison with the broadcasters. The advent of streaming and on demand services makes it less severe, but also a lot less predictable.
I believe Evan has some older videos with some of his friends from the England, Scotland, and Australia where they each made him watch various ads they remembered from their childhood or that they considered to be iconic and then Evan shows him ads from the US. His compilation videos with his friends comparing the US with other places is how I discovered his channel, and then he’s just a fun guy to watch that I’ve kept watching. So you could check those out. I know I’ve watched similar videos recommended by TH-cam on other channels where the producer of the channel has people from different places discuss ads they remember or consider iconic from where they’re from and then they show the ads in the video and people not from that country react to the ads. I didn’t subscribe to those channels and they usually come up as recommended videos when watching Evan’s videos and then you can easily go down the TH-cam recommendation rabbit hole! LOL I grew up as a kid in the 1980s, so as a kid I was used to ads that related to the shows I was watching. Watching GIJoe cartoon, there’s going to be GIJoe toy ads shown. And usually it was like you’d get introduced to some new characters and vehicles and then the commercials would come on and it’d literally be advertising the new toys of those characters and vehicles (which we likely wouldn’t see again in future episodes or if we did, they’d be dressed differently or some other change to then sell us that version). GIJoe, He-Man, Voltron, even my sister watching Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony, and so on would have it the same way. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that there were changes by government about advertising and about children’s programming. In the 1980s, Saturday Morning Cartoons were just cartoons. They might include some “lesson” talked about briefly at the end of the episode, but the show itself wasn’t educational. Governments began requiring more educational programming. I can’t complain, it did give us Bill Nye The Science Guy and Beakman’s World. During the week I usually watched the gameshow Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego and Square One TV on PBS (I especially liked the Mathnet parody skit that was on Square One where Monday a mystery would start and by Friday it would get solved). Plus no ads on PBS. I don’t recall any PBS shows having in episode ads until the late 1990e and early 2000s. And I probably wouldn’t have noticed except that one of my friends often had to babysit his oldest sister’s two girls who were preschool aged and so watched a lot of PBS at that time. So anytime I was visiting him or dropped off a mutual friend or stopped by to pick something up he borrowed from me (usually movies or tv series box sets), I’d notice the PBS channel on the tv playing or it was a recording playing of a show that aired on PBS earlier that day. I remember my friends and I discussing the ads and some of them remembered them while still in school so that’s why I say late 1990s. I wasn’t watching PBS by then because I was either a senior in high school or in college by then and working so didn’t watch as much tv as I did when I was in elementary and junior high school. While there are certainly times when Evan has had different experiences from myself, the vast majority of the time he’s either spot on or close enough with his experience as an American. I wouldn’t expect it to be completely exact considering he grew up in New Jersey and I grew up in rural Oklahoma. So there’s going to be some differences, but nothing that I consider significant enough that I think his experiences would be unrepresentative in general for Americans. I think most Americans hear him talk or see what he presents and think: “Yeah, that’s about right.” I mean, it definitely is enough for folks who didn’t grow up here to understand. And really that’s what he’s getting at. I mean, I have a friend whose an American, but at the age of 7 or 8, her mom passed away. Her parents were divorced and her dad was from Australia so that’s where she grew up until she was 17 and moved back to the US to live with an aunt who offered to pay for her to go to college here. So whenever we get together to chat, because she speaks with a standard American midwestern accent and I’ve known her since high school I do sometimes forget that she didn’t completely grow up here in the US and I’ll mention something and she’ll ask me to explain what I mean because she has no memory of that because that wasn’t part of her lived experience. Great video reaction!!!
Just to note, specifically on the localised adverts thing... We do kind of have them. And I'm gonna use your example of Car Dealerships here, but we'll have adverts for a franchise of car dealerships that are available around the country, and those adverts will be the same across the whole UK, but then at the end of the ad there will be a little localised portion thats just like "pop down to your local dealership at X, Y, or Z" where it will list 3-5 places in the general area.
Program sponsorship in the UK usually involves a quick advert at the beginning of the program, sometimes related to the program it's sponsoring followed by " xxxx sponsors xxxx" and also at the beginning and end of each ad break and at the end of the program.
In regards to localised ads I think we do get it but not as specific, down in the West Country you might get more Cider adverts than you would up north
You do still get localised ads but they are the minority and mainly on ITV which despite being, mostly, one company these days still sells its advertising regionally. A product like IRN-BRU might only advertise in Scotland for example. You can still even buy ads in some of the smaller parts of the old regional franchises like Granada or Central.
I always use too love the Cadburys Milk Tray adverts in the 80's, as a child I couldn't wait to see how he was going to deliver the box in the next advert!
Hello Joel. I keep asking for you to check Yorkshire Tea adverts, so this was interesting. If you need another suggestion check out adverts with Peter Kay. The UK Haribo factory was based near me in Yorkshire as they bought a company in Pontefract, known for licorice. There is a Licorice Fair each year. The Calgon gingle is so catchy that they even manage to sell it in my native Bradford, which has such soft water it was why the wool industry was centred there as you did not need softener to wash the wool. My electric kettle lasted twenty years good as new, but had scaled within a year of me moving to a hard water area.
Hi! i live in an old mining town up north where the water is so hard if you let it dry in a glass youll get a crust, it does taste pretty good though especially compared to the south, where i wouldnt be suprised some days if the water mains and sewer lines were one and the same
Look up.the Irn Bru adverts. In Scoland we call all soft drinks Ginger. So you would say to your mate " any ginger" and he would say aye Irn Bru or Coke.
In the UK there are whole TV programmes in the Welsh, Irish and Scottish Celtic languages too.
Yes, Margaret. In fact there's an entire channel in Cymraeg (Welsh). It is called S4C and carries programming from both the BBC and independent production companies.
@Nicky L Sorry Nicky. I'm not sure. I've seen Irish language channels when I've been flicking through when visiting or programmes being advertised but, of course, there's the complication of the Ulster Scots Irish language being slightly different to the Irish Irish language. I'd imagine it's a mix of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic. I have enough difficulty understanding Derry Girls at times!!! 😀
Nobody watches ads any more. You save the shows and fast forward through the ads.
They used to have adverts that had a story arc in the UK. The Gold Blend Coffee adverts ran for 6 years with 12 adverts showing a romance that started with neighbours borrowing coffee. There was also the OXO family that ran for years. Even Birds Eye Beefburgers had adverts that were like a 45 second soap episode and had continuing stories but, in this case, featuring children.
Annoying that i'm now older than the current Captain Birds eye
Anthony Head, I can't remember her name.
Googled her. Sharon Maughan, married to Trevor Eve (Waking the dead, Shoestring).
Technically the Compare The Meerkat ads have had an ongoing story arc for the past decade or so, and there was a series of BT ads for a while around a family, with Kris Marshall.
But, yeah, definitely was a bigger deal when it happened back with the Gold Blend ads.
That is why Soaps are called Soaps, it was from a Soap advert that had a story arc, that is where actual Soaps (Eastenders, Coronation Street, etc) are derived from, from what I understand anyway.
@@danielreed5199 I heard it was because the sponsors were usually soap companies ( in the USA).
The best ads of the 80s and 90s were for alcohol and tobacco. Check out Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins' ads for Cinzano, the Carling Black Label ads and Hemlet cigars. Best ads but never induced me to buy any.
All the above and also the Australian beers Castlemaine 4x and Fosters
Don’t forget the Boddingtons adverts
Oh come on, the Heineken ads beats them all hands down!
Carling Black Label, Heineken,, and Fosters adverts were always good.
Hamlet cigars were hilarious
The Mash get Smash aliens were the best! Them and the PG Tips chimps...lol. 😀
Best advert ever. Hamlet The Mild Cigar. Guy with combover having four passport photos taken in a booth.
We do have some localised ads in the uk. I only noticed during covid when I’d video call my parents in the neighbouring county and we’d have the same programme on - suddenly I’d be watching an ad for my local taxi company and they’d have something else.
we need to talk about meerkats. So popular are the adverts that ToyRUs (rest in peace) were selling meerkat toys in dressing gowns and everyone knows the one word catchphrase.
Simples! (in squeaky voice)
I think the meerkats adverts are one of the most popular averts ever.
Wait I’m from the uk wtf happened to ToysRUs? Was it the same as Woolworths?
@@nomarxistspls90 yes, it is no more
The jingle for me has to be 'It's all you have to do. Do the shake and vac and put the freshness back' or 'I'm a secret lemonade drinker'!!!
Haha. I think we might be the same age
@@roseadams5362 old... like me. you'll be pushing a bike up a steep hill with a brass band playing in the background next.
@@scottythedawg ah yes, time for some toast me thinks 🤣
"All white's Lemonade" yeah remember that one! lol
The carpet one is good too.
I liked the lemonade one. Elvis Costello did backing vocals, because his dad wrote and sang the jingle, mimed by the actor. The advert won an award.
The Guinness adverts were outstanding, particularly the surfing white horses one, which was once voted the best advert of all time.
i might be wrong, but wasn't there a few different versions of that ad, one with it on its' own, one 'in association with the guiness premier league' for the rugby, and one for non domestic?
@@rogoth01themasterwizard11 - ?? Can you expand? Are you talking specifically about the surfer riding the ‘white horses’ wave?
@@cornishmaid9138 yeah, in the rugby version they replaced the white horses in the water with a rugby scrum, and instead of the guys celebrating on the beach, after the surfing scene was finished it cut to a black background with a load of rugby players of the time, then it cut to the guinness pint and the tag line of the advert.
@@rogoth01themasterwizard11 - ooooh, never saw that one. 👍
@@cornishmaid9138 i'll be honest, you might need to really go digging through archives to find it because while the general advert lasted a long (ish) time, the rugby one was only around for that season of rugby, i never saw it after that, and due to the age of things it might be hard to find, i tried looking to link it before when explaining but couldn't find it on youtube lol.
There are a couple of adverts that were done in series like the Gold Blend Couple for coffee, Papa and Nicole for Renault cars, If you see Sid... Tell him!, and Maureen Lipman's for BT (phone company)
Who can remember the words to 1001, the carpet cleaner?
1001, 1001 gets rid of that workaday frown. 1001 cleans a big big carpet for less than half a crown! For less than half a crown!!
Advertisers certainly knew what they were doing!
I remember it. Most today wouldn't recognize the term 'half a crown'.
This is one reason why, where possible I record every TV programme I want to watch. I refuse to sit through inane adverts. Sometimes I may come across a programme that is live but then I commit it to a memory device or PVR to watch later minus adverts.
That's my Tuppence worth.
"Honest Advertising" is like "Military Intelligence", two words that don't belong together.
On my first visit to the USA in the 90s, I was in a Washington DC hotel and excitedly turned on the TV. I looked at the thick catalogue of TV programmes and could not make sense of it so I chose just a random channel. After ten minutes I realised that it was actually an advert for something. So I turned it off and kept it off I. turned off my UK TV nearly three years ago and haven't watched TV at all since. My brain now feels nearly clean again.
Good on you Alan. I've not had a TV for over 16 years. I'm ignorant to who tv celebrities are and really don't care 😂
Well done you. I'm not as good as you but heading in that direction, being that I only turn the TV on to watch something specific that is of interest to me. I'm more of a bookworm when I settle down to relax.
@@jaytucker8834 I first went TV-less in the late 90s because TV reception was bad. This time I thought "I've watched about 30 hours of TV max in the year" so I didn't renew the licence; it was easy as I didn't pay by direct debit. I watch Amazon Prime instead, mainly old programmes such as the Professionals, Sweeney, Red Dwarf....
I have an amazing system - I record everything I want to watch then zip through the ads - sooo simple!😎
I do exactly the same thing 🤣
I also think there's some law relating to fast food adverts during kids programs as well
I can't imagine telling a doctor which medication I want, self diagnosis from an ad seems worse than Dr Google! I feel much more secure in the concept that a doctor has spent years learning to know what is appropriate for me as an individual and what I am seeking help with.
Its even worse when you realise Drs in USA are payed by medication companies to sell you drugs. So you could have a drug that is 80% good for you, and your doctor will try and get you to take a drug thats only 70%.
Dr Google! Chuckle ☺
Check out the red cross "I am a crisis" advert! Chilling 😬
American advertisers, especially the health insurance companies, are the equivalent of the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: all smiles until you take the bait and then you're trapped for life. I've been watching the NFL Preseason games on the NFL GamePass app with far too many American ads and not one of them would make me want to buy any of the products if they were available here. They are either the child catcher ads I mentioned or that plainly purile 'humour' that Americans seem to lap up. I'll be glad when the regular NFL season starts so that I can watch it on Sky Sports with British ads made for British adults!
When Star Trek The Next Generation was first broadcast in the early 90s on BBC2 it was on for forty minutes without any ad breaks at all. I went to New York around the same time and watched an episode in my hotel room and it was on for an hour and went like this: Ads, Opening scene, ads, opening credits, ads, first part, ads, second part, ads, third part, ads, closing credits, ads! I'm convinced that tv shows in America are there for the benefit of the advertisers not the other way round.
Recommended - if you can find them, from the 80s:: 1 the Audi ad, showing a car being tested by being driven through 'glass' (spun sugar); 2 the Heinneken ads parodying art films.
My Fav adsm were PG Tips (when they had the chimps, Smash Potatoes advert with Robo Aliens, and the Hamlet Cigar With Bald Man. Oh I nearly forgot Hamlet Extra Mild Cigar Glow Worm advert - Which was only shown in the cinemas
Cider is a centuries old staple drink in the UK, particularly in the south-west where the cider apple orchards are; it's not considered 'girly' at all. As for adverts, they used to be really good and they used to be only about 6 mins per hour - not so any more.
ITV do have regional adverts. In Wales you get ads for welsh window companies and Trade Center Wales, which you do not get in England and I think they sometimes change the voiceovers to regional accents?
We have sharing bags of crisps in the UK too. They are popular for parties or movie nights. The multipacks of 6 (or more) small bags, are ideal of lunch boxes.
Yeah, the share bags, that I don't share.. They will all be mine!!! 🤣
But the US ones are huuuuge. Sizewise equivalent to a bag of compost!
"Philomena Cunk's Moments of Wonder Ep 1: Time" you'll love this
Joel getting PTSD when Edinburgh was mentioned made me spit my tea out laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha, yes his reaction was very funny 😄!
I laughed too, was the best bit 😁😁😆🤣😂
I guess another exception I think of in terms of 'all the same TV in the UK' is that there's a Welsh Language channel, S4C, which is in Wales but not the rest of the UK
Cadbury's Milk Tray adverts in the 80s and 90s during 'big' movies on TV. And more recently the generalised Cadbury half glass adverts like the Gorilla advert playing the drums.
Probably the two (or one depending on how you look at it) adverts that always stuck with me.
Hi Joel here in Britain we have a wonderful piece of technology called the Mute button, and the Off switch, many people over the years have got so fed up with media in general the we mute adverts and look at one another and have conversions we have also stopped buying newspapers, to be honest not all ads are ignored as you, yourself has shown, some ads are of hi quality entertainment without being in your face, something the American Ad men should take note, is that American Ads are not to the British taste and the products are less likely to be taken notice of and bought in the UK, Hope your recent visit to the UK gave you some insight into British culture, your a good chap and doing an amazing job shining a light on world culture.
So true. If there are adverts on the telly, I just watch something on my phone until it's over. If there's an ad on my phone at the same time then I'll probably just have a quick wank.
Do not watch much TV, really hate when an ad break occurs at a key moment, stop this by recording programmes and skipping over the ads. As for newspapers cannot remember the last time I bought one.
@@beccawoodhouse General questions.
Do you think you have the right to use any output from the BBC if, by the sound of it, you don't pay the licence fee? That includes most local radio and hundreds of websites.
Personally I would disallow people being able to access any BBC product unless you type in the number of your valid TV licence.
@@karenblackadder1183 Did you read what Becca wrote? She did not claim to watch BBC. And what are these hundreds of websites? Personally I would make BBC subscription only.
Have always, since childhood, muted adverts (apart from ones that I genuinely enjoyed). I would rather make boring small talk with my family, especially now, than have to listen to Phillip Schofield harp on about Webuyanycar, or Rylan Clark talk about "cinching" it.
There are some great UK adverts on this TH-cam channel - "Roll Back The Years Classic 70's 80's British Tv Ads"
I just did the colon cancer screening test at home. I live in the UK, you just follow the directions and sent it back. I got the all clear within a week or two. Thank you the NHS
Your reaction after the Edinburgh comment was priceless 😊
My name is Adam I'm an ant eater, I eat ant's by the meter, I find them under stones, and i find them under rock's, but I'd rather have a bowl of Coco pops...... never forget xx 😄
The first series of Downton Abbey wasn't originally broadcast in Scotland!
I remember George Harrison of the Beatles being interviewed and he said he got confused with American TV because he never knew where the program ended and the adverts began where in England we had End of Part one then the adverts would be begin for 5 minutes then part two, I understand now I've seen Fred Flintstone smoking that would never happen in England
One big advert I think was in the late 60s - 70s and it was the Cadbury's Flake advert ( I do believe that you and friends have eaten some as gifts ) , the advert got stopped but it was not the product but the way it was eaten . Dare you to eat a flake with friends first and then look at the adverts ( about 5 ) and still eat another one lol
Loved those adverts, absolute classics. 😀
Sexy and suggestive - but in a classy way!
9:30 Cigarettes were advertised everywhere till only a few decades. I’m not even surprised. A major advertiser on ‘I Love Lucy’ was a cigarette brand.
Networks have local ad inserts. There are times in their schedule where they break away from the network and each market plays it's local commercials and other content.
BBC, of course, still carries no ads, except for its World News channel. I only worked in the US for a total of ten years, and was initially shocked when patients would ask me to prescribe a particular branded medication. My response was always, "I prescribe what I think best, as I'm your physician. If you want a drug of your own choice, find yourself a dealer." A few grumbled, and a handful left in high dudgeon, but most accepted that my 10 years of university probably meant I knew more than their 30 seconds watching a TV commercial. Also, the two commentators seem unaware that there are two entirely different TV channels in Wales, one in Welsh only. So regional TV is not extinct in the UK.
S4C bbc Cymuru
I've noticed recently, the BBC programmes that used to be an hour long, are now about 45 minutes long, and I'm wondering if that is to allow space for advertising on American channels, that the BBC may be selling content to.
Does BBC America carry advertising ?
@@jonmac3995 quite a few of the BBC nature documentaries would have about 10-15 minutes at the end of how they got the footage for the episode, I believe this was cut from the American/International version so they.could show ads
These guys speak faster than I can listen. Holy cow
Local ads on radio in UK but not on TV as far as I know
as someone from the US i was so perplexed when i first heard of a commercial for john lewis, obviously i had no idea it was a store in the UK, here in the states John Lewis is someone honorably respected, i will not explain more since there is no way i can do him justice so please if anyone does not know him researched him
When I worked for a top-40 radio station in San Francisco many years ago, we used to speed-up the music by 10 or 20%. That was make it sound more energetic. That was a thing back then.
Seinfeld was shown in the UK (20 years ago?) and was quite popular. Same thing with Friends.
any carling black label advert with Mark Arden and Stephen Frost. i miss them. bloody hilarious. my favourite being the damn busters one but they where all good
Those two are great together.
London and Edinburgh. Two cities you got lashed in!
Here in Australia a tv network was bought by CBS America and one of the first things they did was close production of the news and moved it to an east coast state. Using an east coast presenter and weather reports are done from the same east coast studio.
Hi,here in the uk,we get the full add - say for a Car then a couple of small clips of the same add.
We DO have local adverts on STV and on ITV in England and Wales.
You even get localised adverts for Glasgow and the West of Scotland and Edinburgh and the east, and it's same for the rest of the UK.
I think Jay actually meant that we have pretty much gotten rid of local programmes
@@RB-747 No he made both those claims that we don't do local adverts or local programming besides news.
@@dicem8977 Oh I see - I'm assuming that must just be for ITV though then because I have never seen a local advert on TV
He said there 'was' only STV covering Scotland as a region, didn't Border TV, presumably cover the south of Scotland as well as Northumberland and Cumbria? And what did they used to recieve in the IoM? Vaguely remember the name "Grampian" of old too?
Great ads from the past, I'm a secret lemonade drinker, You've been Tangoed, Luton Airport, Watch out there's a Humphrey about, Leonard Rossiter and Dame Joan Collins series of Cinzano ads, all the old PG Tips monkey ads, Boddington and Follow the Bear (Hoffmeister beer) series just to name a few.
All of us who watched your Scotland video are laughing at the mention of “Edinburgh”,! Edinburgh is now on the map!!
My all-time favourite is the 1987 car Ad: Golf Volkswagen with Paula Hamilton. It is a classic!
You'll also probably find Stephen Fry starring in or voicing half the adverts in the UK....well back in the day at least.
Yes,but Brian Blessed or Tom Baker[4th Dr.Who] were catching up him,fairly recently!😉
David Mitchell did fairly well for himself as well lol
Localised commercials i think are mainly done on our Radio stations now and not TV in the UK
Joe pointed out we now have programme sponsorship and product placement. However, there’s a big difference in how they are implemented here. A programme sponsor is forbidden from having any influence or editorial input over the content of the programme. If a sponsor is unhappy with the content, their only option is to stop sponsoring it. Similarly, product placement must be “incidental”, in that it cannot influence the content. For example, the product can appear, but nobody can make any direct reference to it.
Since you’ve been bombarded with Cadbury’s chocolate, you might want to look at some of their older ads. Search for Cadbury’s Smash and you’ll find some very amusing old ads from the 70s and 80s. There was also a whole series of semi-erotic ads for Cadbury’s Flake. You might be baffled by the Cadbury’s gorilla ad too. One of the most imaginative series of ads from decades ago (before tobacco ads were banned), was for Hamlet cigars - “Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet”, which were very amusing.
I think the Marmite ads are also some of the most imaginative in British advertising. So many great ones, but these are some of the best:
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"I'm a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case"
Frank Muir,
Nutcracker Suite theme
There are a couple of exceptions to that - You very occasionally see gameshows mention the e.g. holiday company that provided a holiday as a prize, and the brief revival of The Krypton Factor was entirely paid for by a single company, had extremely direct transition from their sponsorship into credits, and while there was a break, it was only used to promote programming rather than sell ads.
Thanks JP. I did give you the look, then you said, don't give me that look (Scotland) .... 😄
I dislike ads so much .... the majority of media news in the UK is so biased so we don't watch it, but most stuff we watch we've recorded and if there are adverts we fast-forward.
I remember Umbongo they drink it in the congo and tomato ketchup with Mat le blanc.good old days.by the way Joel i think you look great with stubble👍🏻
Whatever happened to Mbongo?It was such a great name.
@@eh-i1841 yes! I still remember that damn tune but can’t remember what i did last week 😄
The Tennants lager “Caledonia” advert was brilliant back in the day in the UK. Remember watching it growing up. The Scottish guy leaves London to return to Edinburgh. Great tune too.
So funny... just as you paused to talk about how local car dealerships run ads, I was thinking "oh, and mattress stores, too"... then Evan comes in with mattress warehouses... those are the two big ones for sure when it comes to local ads.
On Freeview in the UK some areas have their own channel which has local news and programs. Sheffield has "Sheffield live" Norfolk used to have "mustard TV" (but I don't think that's operating any more). I'm not sure what the other ones are.
We do have some local advertising on TV here in the UK but not alot..
We have the Australian advert Cillit Bang, they used to show it as in Australia with the man shouting at you but have now toned it down so he just talks.
Taffe316 has lots of British TV advert compilations.
I'M BARRY SCOTT AND I'M HERE TO MAKE YOU ALL HATE MY PRODUCT,
BANG!!! AND THE CUSTOMERS HAVE GONE!
Hi, I'm Barry Scott! BANG and the dirt is gone!
@@IanDarley That is what he said but my version is more accurate in England.
@@carlchapman4053 Yep, I'm in the UK and totally agree
I always remember the truly awful impressionist Jon Culshaw try to do a Barry Scott impression and he was, as he always is, truly awful! How that man ever got his own impressions show is beyond me while Rob Brydon just quietly lets his own fantastic impressions slip while he's hosting Would I Lie To You!
Fred flintstone got me hooked on smoking, usually when I'm watching TV and averts appear I put the kettle on for a cup of tea or go to the John. I sometimes like a catchy jingle on an ad, sometimes I have watched an advert 30/40 times with out actually knowing what they were advertising. I say to myself one day I will pay attention and see what they are really trying to sell me. But usually my mind goes blank when adverts appear.
Seinfeld was popular in the UK and was on TV for many years.
“I'm not going to say it, I'm not going to say it” that part got me!
Re UK television advertising, the following information is taken from the UK tv and radio listings magazine, The Radio Times, 27 Aug to 2 Sept 2022.... "Currently commercial public service broadcasters, that is ITV, STV, Channel 4, S4C, and Channel 5 are restricted to an average of 7 minutes of advertising per hour with an extra minute in primetime. Other commercial broadcasters are allowed up to 9 minutes per hour or longer in the case of teleshopping channels." That therefore is the current situation regarding commercial breaks on tv in the UK. All BBC channels in the UK, both tv and radio, contain no commercials or paid for advertising of course.
18:15 The moment where Joel disintegrated and for very good reason 😂 #IYKYK
Regarding film speed both 16mm and 35mm film run at 24 frames per second. That will not scan for television so they run it at 25 frames per second. You can't hear the difference. I worked in a cinema where the projectors ran at 25 frames per second. They did for years and nobody noticed. The difference in run time of a program was minimal.
there are regional adverts in the uk, in the northeast we get frank's the flooring store with a tag line "i love carpets me" to my knowledge this is only shown in the north of england as thats the only place where they have stores
The drug companies just send branded post-it notes to our GPs instead. There’s a fight back campaign telling GPS to prescribe generics not branded drugs.
There’s a companion video to this about British vs American TV - well worth checking out!
you mightve noticed on uk bags of crisps and sweets there was a traffic light chart telling you how much sugar and fat etc in the product your eating national food chains have calorie counts on the menu is now law
Joel: Whilst you where traveling around the UK you where in the former ITV regions of -
Thames Television/London Weekend Television (London)
HTV /West of England (when you where in Bath )
Yorkshire Television (York)
STV Scottish Television( Edinburgh & Glasgow)
Anglia Television (Stansted Airport)
You could get Tyne Tees Television in York aswel as Yorkshire TV, and don't forget Border TV in The Lake District.
You missed out one of the biggest, Granada (Northwest England) also ATV (Midlands) and Southern TV. Granada probably made the most programmes of any ITV company.
Anglia I think only made 'Sale of the Century', Border TV only made a version of 'Mr and Mrs' (as did several other regional companies).
@@nevillemason6791 You're a man of my own heart.
There are two differences between US and European TV. One is the frame rate, based on the mains power frequency, and the other is the colour system, NTSC vs PAL. It was the latter that caused the colour problems in the early days when showing American shows on British TV. Both of these are ameliorated if the source material is film, since the frame rate is the same worldwide, and each region can encode to their respective colour systems when broadcasting to TV. The colour conversion problem was fixed with the introduction of digital media and software-based conversion.
20 yrs ago I used to watch the TV series of Highlander.
One time I was going through some webs sites about the show, and someone had literally written out word for word, every single script, for all six seasons.
Each episode was written on a black background with each character's dialogue written in different colours. And at the end of these episodes, written in a odd colour, was written the words, EURO MINUTES, followed by a bit more dialogue.
I had no idea what this was, as far as I knew, from already having seen the episode, this dialogue was the same as what I had seen.
It would be like Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander, talking to his student about the fight he'd just had. Saying something on the lines of it was a good fight, and/or don't blame yourself, they left you no choice etc. A slap on the back, and a "watch your head" comment. Or a let's go to Joe's Bar, and raise a toast to X." Nothing major to the story, but it tidied up the end.
It wasn't until I spoke to an American Highlander friend and mentioned these Euro Minutes, that she said, that was exactly what they were. That until she'd bought the DVDs of the show, she had never seen them, because they were only shown in Europe. Those extra minutes were cut from the show, purely to fit more adverts into the show.
We get a lot of American shows here as you can imagine, and If you were to time the shows like, Highlander or Stargate SG1, 20 years ago, these shows averaged a run time of 46-47 minutes. Now, if you were to time the shows like Supernatural, Hawaii five 0, or on of the NCIS shows, they now average about 41-42 minutes. The rest is adverts.
The cinema had a brilliant Bacardi advert, about going to the pub for the evening and catching the last bus home. It was carried for about 20 years.
The first time I saw adverts from the USA was in the early 1990's. One thing that was different back then was the USA ads would directly compare their product with a rival brand (eg Energizer vs Duracell batteries), but in the UK at that time you couldn't directly compare your product with a rival brand name, it would be Energizer batteries last 6 times longer than the "UK's leading brand". It's changed now as there are adverts on UK TV at the moment where the supermarkets name their rivals saying their prices are cheaper etc.
In the 80's Qualcast Concorde mowers had the slogan 'A lot less bother than a hover' And Flymo responded in an advert, then Qualcast company responded to that response, it was a mini war!
1 correction about localised ads in the UK, they are rare but they do exist, usually at times of the day when viewer numbers are low and the ads cost less to run. My local Harbourside shopping centre advertise in the evenings, usually at Xmas time. Also there is a company thats national but advertises the locality of their business.. (Ninja WarriorUK to be specific)
Jay Forman, what a star.
One of the things I really didn't like in the States was TV. A lot of the programmes were barely so-so, news was pretty dire too, but advertising was the worst of the whole thing. Like they said, so many and all for meds, cars and lawyers.
I think you've mentioned it before that the UK National Grid (electricity supply) had to be prepared for everyone putting the kettle on during ad breaks. Personally, I'm happy to pay my TV licence to not see adverts on at least a few channels.
As for jingles, my favourite was "A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat", which my mate turned to "A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids gastroenteritis". No idea why he did that, but he did.
The kettle surge tended only to occur during major events, and was largely mitigated through liaison with the broadcasters. The advent of streaming and on demand services makes it less severe, but also a lot less predictable.
I believe Evan has some older videos with some of his friends from the England, Scotland, and Australia where they each made him watch various ads they remembered from their childhood or that they considered to be iconic and then Evan shows him ads from the US. His compilation videos with his friends comparing the US with other places is how I discovered his channel, and then he’s just a fun guy to watch that I’ve kept watching. So you could check those out. I know I’ve watched similar videos recommended by TH-cam on other channels where the producer of the channel has people from different places discuss ads they remember or consider iconic from where they’re from and then they show the ads in the video and people not from that country react to the ads. I didn’t subscribe to those channels and they usually come up as recommended videos when watching Evan’s videos and then you can easily go down the TH-cam recommendation rabbit hole! LOL
I grew up as a kid in the 1980s, so as a kid I was used to ads that related to the shows I was watching. Watching GIJoe cartoon, there’s going to be GIJoe toy ads shown. And usually it was like you’d get introduced to some new characters and vehicles and then the commercials would come on and it’d literally be advertising the new toys of those characters and vehicles (which we likely wouldn’t see again in future episodes or if we did, they’d be dressed differently or some other change to then sell us that version). GIJoe, He-Man, Voltron, even my sister watching Strawberry Shortcake, My Little Pony, and so on would have it the same way. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that there were changes by government about advertising and about children’s programming. In the 1980s, Saturday Morning Cartoons were just cartoons. They might include some “lesson” talked about briefly at the end of the episode, but the show itself wasn’t educational. Governments began requiring more educational programming. I can’t complain, it did give us Bill Nye The Science Guy and Beakman’s World. During the week I usually watched the gameshow Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego and Square One TV on PBS (I especially liked the Mathnet parody skit that was on Square One where Monday a mystery would start and by Friday it would get solved). Plus no ads on PBS. I don’t recall any PBS shows having in episode ads until the late 1990e and early 2000s. And I probably wouldn’t have noticed except that one of my friends often had to babysit his oldest sister’s two girls who were preschool aged and so watched a lot of PBS at that time. So anytime I was visiting him or dropped off a mutual friend or stopped by to pick something up he borrowed from me (usually movies or tv series box sets), I’d notice the PBS channel on the tv playing or it was a recording playing of a show that aired on PBS earlier that day. I remember my friends and I discussing the ads and some of them remembered them while still in school so that’s why I say late 1990s. I wasn’t watching PBS by then because I was either a senior in high school or in college by then and working so didn’t watch as much tv as I did when I was in elementary and junior high school.
While there are certainly times when Evan has had different experiences from myself, the vast majority of the time he’s either spot on or close enough with his experience as an American. I wouldn’t expect it to be completely exact considering he grew up in New Jersey and I grew up in rural Oklahoma. So there’s going to be some differences, but nothing that I consider significant enough that I think his experiences would be unrepresentative in general for Americans. I think most Americans hear him talk or see what he presents and think: “Yeah, that’s about right.” I mean, it definitely is enough for folks who didn’t grow up here to understand. And really that’s what he’s getting at. I mean, I have a friend whose an American, but at the age of 7 or 8, her mom passed away. Her parents were divorced and her dad was from Australia so that’s where she grew up until she was 17 and moved back to the US to live with an aunt who offered to pay for her to go to college here. So whenever we get together to chat, because she speaks with a standard American midwestern accent and I’ve known her since high school I do sometimes forget that she didn’t completely grow up here in the US and I’ll mention something and she’ll ask me to explain what I mean because she has no memory of that because that wasn’t part of her lived experience.
Great video reaction!!!
I no longer watch 'live tv' I record things I want to watch and play them back at a later date (or later that day) and just Fast Forward all the ads!
The Haribos sweets adverts are THE BEST I love them
Just to note, specifically on the localised adverts thing... We do kind of have them. And I'm gonna use your example of Car Dealerships here, but we'll have adverts for a franchise of car dealerships that are available around the country, and those adverts will be the same across the whole UK, but then at the end of the ad there will be a little localised portion thats just like "pop down to your local dealership at X, Y, or Z" where it will list 3-5 places in the general area.
Check out U.K. adds from the 70 s to the 1990 s
Program sponsorship in the UK usually involves a quick advert at the beginning of the program, sometimes related to the program it's sponsoring followed by " xxxx sponsors xxxx" and also at the beginning and end of each ad break and at the end of the program.
Programme in fact. Unless you were doing that for Joel's benefit😉
@@reluctantheist5224 actually in America they're all called TV shows 😂
@@davebirch1976 😉
He actually was speaking French lol we get taught it in school, probably similar to how you're taught Spanish
In regards to localised ads I think we do get it but not as specific, down in the West Country you might get more Cider adverts than you would up north
Unfortunately in the UK the adverts have taken over the programmes, I record them and delete the adverts! It’s crazy.
JPS is the boss. Love your observations.
Ads are targeted to specific regions, for example we receive ads for furniture shops around here
Our regional news in Kent used to be called Coast to coast
You do still get localised ads but they are the minority and mainly on ITV which despite being, mostly, one company these days still sells its advertising regionally. A product like IRN-BRU might only advertise in Scotland for example. You can still even buy ads in some of the smaller parts of the old regional franchises like Granada or Central.
Check out the Guinness adverts. They were the most expensive adverts at one point (may still be).
Also the Hamlet Cigars adverts.
I always use too love the Cadburys Milk Tray adverts in the 80's, as a child I couldn't wait to see how he was going to deliver the box in the next advert!
Memories of Edinburgh! 😆 Great reaction Joel!👍🏼😎
Hello Joel. I keep asking for you to check Yorkshire Tea adverts, so this was interesting. If you need another suggestion check out adverts with Peter Kay.
The UK Haribo factory was based near me in Yorkshire as they bought a company in Pontefract, known for licorice. There is a Licorice Fair each year.
The Calgon gingle is so catchy that they even manage to sell it in my native Bradford, which has such soft water it was why the wool industry was centred there as you did not need softener to wash the wool. My electric kettle lasted twenty years good as new, but had scaled within a year of me moving to a hard water area.
Hi! i live in an old mining town up north where the water is so hard if you let it dry in a glass youll get a crust, it does taste pretty good though especially compared to the south, where i wouldnt be suprised some days if the water mains and sewer lines were one and the same
when I used to watch American films and the news report, I would say on national TV I used to always think all news is national. now I understand why
Look up.the Irn Bru adverts. In Scoland we call all soft drinks Ginger. So you would say to your mate " any ginger" and he would say aye Irn Bru or Coke.