UK TV ads 1990s

Some UK TV adverts from the late 1990s from VHS. Aah, don't you just miss the fuzzy images and bad tracking days?
Includes:
Boddingtons Cream beer (Cattle Market)
Marbles credit card (Honor Blackman narrating)
Bacardi Breezer (Psychiatrist)
The Sixth Sense TV spot
Hugo Boss (Bottled)
LG (Digital made easy)
Skips (Easy Cheesy flavour, Terry Christian narrating)
Post Office (I saw this...Blokezone)
Duracell Ultra
Chrysler Voyager (Arguing couple)
The Egg Credit Card
and more to come

[@lisasmith9510]

When watching old TV ads is more entertaining than the actual programs on TV at present 😂😂

[@richardmcdonagh2813]

absolutely my friend

[@alexavfclineham7301]

You're not wrong, they were actually entertaining from when we were allowed a sense of humour

[@zhifangwang1367]

Spot on. Can't agree with you more. Now I hardly watch any TV, everything is just so boring, no imagination at all, so now I binge watching old ads😂😂

[@mantisrl9896]

Me in the 90s: FFS more adverts?!!? Me in 2020: Watches 20 minutes of adverts with a smile on my face.

[@ryanalexi4446]

Definitely

[@tosspot1305]

yer ...weird innit

[@user-ff6rt5zw3u]

that's neet culture i swear!

[@That_Guy-]

KZbin: watch these ads before watching a video of ads

[@simonwillis1529]

🤦‍♂️🤣 Yes

[@jaykaria4776]

The 90’s was the best time of my life.

[@lizprice2742]

Mine too!

[@frosty818]

We were the last of a decent generation it all went down hill when the millennium hit

[@JayKhwaja]

80s for me were Best 🎗⭐️

[@mrstaylor2938]

I love the year 1999

[@JAMmonyt]

It was 20 years ago, I'm sure you've had a better time since

[@TheMasterNo6]

Note how in the 90s advertising was still good....compared to today's crap that instantly makes you hit the mute button or switch channels.

[@theodrewilks5365]

I need a time machine, born in 1980, loved the nineties.

[@AzumiRM]

I moved to Japan when I was 18 back in 1999 and I still remember the 90's in the UK being the best time of my life.

[@chiefteefteefreturns3320]

Why did you move

[@choncord]

I'm still here in the UK, and I can attest that the 90s were the best times of my life

[@theinsaneone244]

I love how we all hate ads when they pop up but we watch 20 minutes of 90s ads for fun

[@HappyCynic]

Watching them is a choice. Having them forced down our throats isn't.

[@morrismckinnon6047]

I remember all these ads, I used to stay up late watching TV back then. Now I'm up late watching the same ads on my computer, sod all has changed!

[@kyokushinkaikid]

Im on a platform that makes me annoyed I have to watch ads, on a phone that isn’t really a phone more of a computer to view adverts from the 90’s

[@firefly7980]

Can I go back to the 90’s please?!!!!!

[@kimberleysmith818]

Only if I can come to!

[@MrStreetboy80]

The 90s was the best times!

[@whatshisname3304]

WHY? obviously they were good for you. the style was not my cup of coffee.

[@Corkedwolf43771]

Nah 80's I'd spend 20 years from 80 back to 00's simpler times and no rona

[@Gambit771]

But that would mean we have to live through the 00s til today again.

[@tipsytaverner7692]

This is definitely late 90s adds 97-99 I’d say.

[@abbiegsarah2129]

These adverts are surely bringing me back life was surely better. 😌

[@technojoe4079]

Life was better back then

[@archerman1]

ahh 90s...when everyone thought world can't get more modern than that.

[@jasonderebel7864]

"Getting verbal abuse from an eight foot goose" kills me

[@BelatedCommiseration]

You know...randomly...the song from that weetabix advert still pops back in my head from time to time all these years later...and I think the reason why it does is because of that line! :)

[@Pablosplace]

When you realise all of the middle aged people in these adverts are now old age and all of the old people are probably dead. 🤯

[@nilz9397]

We moved to Abu Dhabi in 1990 from the UK and moved back in 1991. I was so happy to have moved back to the UK. The UK in the 80s and 90s were the best.

[@reallyryan_]

My left ear enjoyed this more than my right ear.

[@SenseofSelf]

No repetitive, excruciating noises to make you instantly grab for the remote... no assumption in the narrative that the person watching is a brain dead vessel with the memory of a goldfish....!. The 90''s has so much more feeling and connection - a reflection in many ways of how things were in society. I am too nostalgic though.

[@stellafraser8351]

'Bloke Zone' always made me and my then husband laugh😂

[@dominicpaul1]

I'm still here. Look out of the window.

[@HWDragonborn]

I just got a 2021 ad while watching these 1990s ads

[@oingpla]

Watching this in 2018 and some of the Ads look very well filmed for the time!

[@marclaw4511]

Back to a time when we lived life.

[@abingleyboy]

It's like a foreign country watching these like it's now. Some of these ads i kind of remember. I knew it was 1999 with The Sixth Sense trailer. 1999 Back when oil was still of Ulay, not olay, back when Golden Churn was changed to Golden Crown before it vanished alltogether. Back when Les Dawson, Bob Hoskins, Nigel Hawthorn & Dudley Moore were still alive before all the sunlife, PPI and paying for a funeral ads 17:25 This P&O ad is awful more of nightmare than a dream. They can P&OFF!

[@paulweir5031]

Oil of Ulay had three names depending on which part of the world was your home; Ulay, Olay and Olan. Years ago it was decided to go with Olay across the globe, dropping the others.

[@michaelwebster6219]

Who has this on in 2022 and see how many ads had a box ticker in then aand how bad ads are now woken big time box tickers now every brand is

[@hitchslap8254]

I'd imagine 95% of the views from 2020 onwards are people doing that including me. Also for a bit of nostalgia.

[@stevenmitchell2996]

Television was better back then even the gameshows, television programmes, soaps, etc... Television is shit now.

[@Secret19977]

Box ticking and political correctness is responsible

[@FahadManiar]

3:54 what you all came for... you're welcome

[@Baz87100]

lol, those old 09 numbers killing your bank account

[@leesurridge2947]

They are all grannies now 😅

[@kingkandy]

The Weetabix ad "Referee", to the tune of the Bee Gees "Tragedy", is a bit of a classic 5:35 🙂

[@kgcyoutubeaccount879]

I wondered what dirty advert was going to come up

[@Cyrillius1]

Was NOT expecting to see Kyle MacLachlan looking for yetis ... also I remember those Nescafe Gold Blend adverts had a whole storyline and were super popular, weren't they? ?

[@Pugragger]

Does anyone else sit here and expect a TV show to start after the advert finishes?

[@Sicgaming]

If KZbin had adverts like this I would turn adblocker off. No I don't want to play league of legends but I will buy a terrible rate credit card just because their advert was entertaining and I feel I need to give back

[@piercelawless1730]

Now adverts are no fun and boring.....nothing really memorable now.

[@desertrose1226]

Just about money and no substance

[@KittyKat-vb1nd]

Like society as a whole. Utter bores, little true personality or character. All social media manufacturing to give the illusion of being interesting. Sad times.

[@leesaunders1930]

not to forget all the advertising has to be totally inclusive now. soon as certain people see an advert without a person of colour in it gets complaints lol

[@danw1374]

Except for the new snug advert!

[@scoobydoobydoooo]

the 90s UK adverts were pretty amazing. Mr soft looking like a guy on ketamine; stylish guiness ads like the surfer with the white horses; allisons bread guy going i said you you said me i said ohhh; I could list shit tons of hilarious ads that made them bearable inbetween tv shows.

[@tuxedocat3020]

Those were the days

[@amaratakundwa7828]

I used to love those old Mr kipling ads. And still love his cakes

[@rosieee88]

They’re exceedingly good

[@krystallovesclassics508]

As an American that ad for BlokeZone throw me for a loop, The song in the background was used here as the theme song for a popular sex show on HBO in the 90s.

[@Gambit771]

Seems a fitting use then.

[@TheIndulged1]

Ah the time when Tango invented Happy slapping, what that has to do with orange flavoured soda is a mystery. I used to have a VHS tape which had channel 5 count down to broadcast on it, yes I was that excited for a extra free channel that ended up showing softcore porn.

[@latinolawdog5067]

That American pizza commercial was weird. It depicts a southern woman (US South) cooking the pizzas, which is a region that is not known for pizza/italian at all. That’s generally reserved for northern cities with a lot of Italian immigrants like New York, Chicago, or Detroit. Interesting choice.

[@1875HIBEESFC]

The man in the Renaut Mégane advert at 11:50 played Brian in my parents are aliens 😂😂

[@hogg8888]

9:16 giles buffy the vampire slayer

[@gerghghherb880]

Even though I know the whole thing is ads, part of my brain is like "well when this ad is over its back to the real ads" every time

[@CesareVesdani]

I remember seeing some of these 90s adverts.

[@dogtags2010]

These can't be from the 90s i remember them like yesterday!

[@namesurname2958]

Every single one of these adverts wouldve been banned by VAR for no reason whatsoever lol

[@kindmulberry7196]

VAR Decision: Too Good For 2022

[@davidrobert4246]

On the off chance someone here knows. Does anyone remember a UK advert from the 90s that was stop motion using miniture models of people (like the ones used for a model railway) entering a business, bank maybe? I'm pretty sure there was a ghost in the queue. I think it was quite fast cut in time to music. I know my description is quite vague, but I remember it so vividly. I'd love to see it again.

[@gavinmellon9313]

Fly Fishing by J.R Hartley - but at least Bob "it's good to talk" Oskins is here.🍉🍉

[@nirvana-qk9ju]

RIP: Dudley moore and Bob Hoskins. *Edit* Leslie nielsen.

[@keithbarlow8415]

And let's not forget Les Dawson.

[@kristopherdavidson2097]

Thanks for uploading....these are great!! Forgot about the Vodafone ads with Kyle MacLachlan!!

[@bozotheclown169]

yeh had completely forgot he did XFiles type ad

[@Tubeman777]

Interesting and memories. Most voice overs were male and deep masculine voices. Females were very high pitched and pleasant. How things have changed.......

[@thecornedbeefcouncil9792]

Christ, those fucking Gold Blend adverts. £22 grand for a Volvo 20 years ago Terri Covelly from 'the thick of it at 03:47, Dan Miller from 'the thick of it' at 11:40

[@ricochetpig]

12:10 Jungle, football and Lucozade? Sign me up.

[@PandawiseUK]

Can confirm, the phone number for 1-2-1 girls is still active!

[@dansketch]

That cartoon post office ad would offend so many people today lol

[@KittyKat-vb1nd]

Everything is offensive and triggering now. Breathing is an afront. I'm black british and yes racism existed as it always had but my friends and I were not obsessed with it. Now for all the talk of tolerance it's nothing but talk of division and someone being offended over the slightest thing.

[@scottishmau5]

Cheesy skips!!!! I’ve alway know them to be prawn cocktail 36yrs old now and didn’t know that

[@Mega5853]

Childhood memories 🤣

[@CourtneyComments]

It was recorded on Thursday 28th October 1999.

[@chrislewis3038]

How was it the gold blend as was 92 and the Goldstone tyres was 96?

[@desertrose1226]

My grandmother died that year that month

[@CycolacFan]

Sitting through two you tube adverts to watch adverts.

[@reefconvy7291]

3:55 - Now that's what I call quality advertising 😉.

[@gedhession]

"If you're sat around at home make new friends on the telephone".

[@tqft]

Love how cheeky these times were! No political correctness here folks… just plain old cheeky chops

[@lauralobato7417]

Adverts will play after the ad

[@moretimeneeded56]

I skipped the ads and the video finished

[@thecornedbeefcouncil9792]

Fuck me, that bloody Gold Blend advert storyline went on for years.

[@BrenTravisMusician]

Did you click the thumbnail and then click 'Skip ads' to watch this?

[@lauraholmes2402]

You can tell what was popular on television at the time

[@aeoligarlic4024]

I've been looking for mr kiplings slices ad! Now i remember the name of the product, thanks!

[@cartoonhead9222]

Is that Joanna Scanlan flogging the egg card?

[@InAMinMaths]

This is like a different planet, not a different time

[@DjSyko86]

I swear i remember the ads in the 90s took forever to finish. Lol

[@fionahamilton7231]

Thank god we can now pause and rewind and pause the TV now

[@benwherlock9869]

Rip Dudley Moore's career and Dudley Moore.

[@bozotheclown169]

lots of RIPs in these ads now - Les Dawson, Bob Hoskins, nigel hawthone..were all hale and hearty in the 90s tho

[@chrisbayes6211]

Wow. It's just like now but better!

[@Gambit771]

@@komeodhomi709 They were?

[@dspencer8827]

Gosh some of these bring back memories

[@joegrimes9232]

I'm from the future. M Knight Shyamalan will try and remake the sixth sense for years and don't sleep with that girl you meet at a party. Go with the other girl you fancied anyway. Oh and Kyle Magachlin reprises his role as Dale Cooper, but David Lynch hit you over the head with "Its Tele" themes. Oh and Mr Kipling does still make exceedingly bland, wet cladding drizzled in pink shit and passes it off as angel cake so you''ll get some soggy nostalgia there. Oh and Donald Trump is President of the US, Worzel Gummage cross bred with a womble is PM. We left the EU, but doesn't matter, we're all dying of plague anyway. British Rail got privatised before these ads aired. People for the next two decades refer to the companies as "British Rail" regardless. There's a war in Afghanistan, then Iraq. Then probably Iran, Pakistan and any country ending in Stan or rymes with flan. You get crippling alcoholism and a Charlie Brooker like disdain on things but it works out even if you dont marry a blue peter presenter to even out your temperament like hammer to a car bonnet.. Oh yeah and the guy from the Kids show you liked died prematurely. Pick one. You got it

[@joegrimes9232]

Before I do pop off either to go into another wine fuelled coma or dementia or another wine fuelled coma; Star Trek a show I know you love turns into dogshit. It's essentially making a football Jersey with Spocks face on it. I hate Football, sporty young go getters hate Star Trek. Don't try to make us mingle at a school dance. On that note, George Lucas is planning in your time a prequel triliogy of films. Assassinate him. Not for the films he makes, but the Hemophiliac inbred offspring it sires. It might just save us from the impending war with Uzbekistan. Ridley Scott makes the prequel to Alien no one asked for so there's that to enjoy. Marvel Comics you read and get you beat up for reading in school are now the highest grossing movies of all time. Remember you like Will Hay movies? How again you got beat up for suggesting "Ask a Policeman" at a movie night at school? Yeah Will Hay is playing at an Indie Cinema near you and people are raving. Can we sell tickets that come with a mandatory beating? You've got 2 decades to come up with a plan. Which leads me to reality TV. Specifically Dragon's Den or in the US, Shark Tank because the difference between US and UK begins and ends at "The Office" it must have been negotiated in a trade deal, because everything else is named slightly different by each country, Samford and Son, Steptoe and Son. Genocide. It's all relative, anyway the show Dragon's Shark month is where budding entrepreneurs submit inventions to a panel of 3 business suits who's businesses tank, to get investment in your product. Reggae Reggae sauce, one winner you'll see occupying shelf space next to where HP used to be and they branched out to Pinapple soda. Which is a marketing decsision worse than a company called the self sealed envelope company rebranding themselves as the "SS" Go on there and market airport luggage with a strap and hippo motif with a saddle. It'll make millions as well as annoyevery cunt at the waiting lounge. Namely you. Except when little Seabreeze or whatever the kids name is, is ramming your shin - you have the satisfaction of knowing at least you paid for the pain like Max Mosley

[@joegrimes9232]

Spoiler alert! Terry Wogan passed away in 2016. Who replaces his cutting wit and derision of the Eurovision? You may not ask as you're 12. Well. It's Graham Norton of course. He's Irish and upbeat and secretly harbouring a self-loathing you'll get to enjoy you scamp. Well, it's no longer fun nor draws the viewership. I'd have taken Dylan Moran smokily forced into a booth to comment- but engineered cynicism? Nah leave it to the proffesionals. Graham Norton hosting Eurovision is like getting Julien Clarey to host Drag Race. Spoiler alert : he's also dead and Drag Race is actually pretty fun to watch. Never Mind the Buzzcocks will soon grace the screen. You'll laugh and enjoy Mark Lamarr's comedy stylings and wonder what happened to him in 2020. He's down Costco flogging excesses of reggae reggae sauce

[@joegrimes9232]

welcome to the future. Where sex is taboo and traced by an app and you need to fill out 1000 forms to order a pint. Cheers. Wear a mask. If only wear a condom was as catchy, perhaps AIDs wouldn't be a thing eh?

[@jaidenazazel8974]

The days before PC ruined everything.

[@Secret19977]

Hopefully we can go back to a time like the 90s one day

[@jaidenazazel8974]

@@Secret19977 Wouldn’t that be amazing. 😊

[@ishyshah6915]

Cellnet, wow that's a name I forgot

[@BelatedCommiseration]

Weird time really...coz obviously these adverts are from 1999 and so the end of the nineties...so we were sort of transitioning into the next century...so you get a lot more CGI going on and references to 'digital' services which were only just starting at the time and were sort of more of a 'noughties' thing and actually a lot of the adverts (especially the Duracell one) look very similar to ones you may get even today...but at the same time you get this sort of last gasp 'explosion' of the bright coloured, highly stylised, highly random and referential nineties style we all know and love kicked up to turbo mode before it would finally die out completely in the 'boring' bland look noughties...which I date from around 2003 onwards...roughly around the time of the death of UK garage as it was...and then things sort of pick up again in terms of being interesting and 'distinctive' again around the 2011 mark...but still not to the same level as the nineties, eighties and seventies in terms of pure style and creativity!

[@ArchieAndy27]

Pretty sure that's Honor Blackman doing the VO in that 2nd one!

[@Secret19977]

Back when adverts weren’t politically correct or woke or pandering to the woke brigade box tickers

[@eclectica1]

You seem bitter sunshine...

[@pwrovr9k731]

Just wanted to see what commercials in the Uk looks like. Just wanted to see what was popular since im American.

[@lolajenkins2674]

no one cares

[@ishyshah6915]

Nowadays all the ads i see are over 50s insurance plans and funeral services 🤣

[@danw1374]

Now I'm in my late 40s all I get is things through the post asking if I've started getting up several times a night to go to the toilet!

[@ashleyburns6752]

what a horrible place the world has become

[@694069406940]

oh dam yes i remember some of them

[@dominewimbury2039]

God I remember all these!

[@stephthestar90]

90s adverts were WAY better than today's annoying gambling, funeral planning, charity begging, car insurance and online service adverts

[@eustacequinlank7418]

Very sneaky with the thumbnail because I'm pretty sure as a teenager I wanted to know precisely who that lady was yet you didn't feature it. That is very bespoke clickbait indeed!

[@GodOfVictory501]

4:00? (unless the thumbnail has changed since you wrote that comment)

[@kimberleysmith818]

She was featured. Part of the adult channel advert

[@stupidhandles]

@@kimberleysmith818 121 sex chat, not the adult channel. These things are important

[@MarkGenner-xz4zu]

What advert is this at 3:16?

[@Bertiesghost]

What the hell is that one with Jeff Goldblum all about @8:46

[@davep5842]

Bupa advert very catchy

[@danielwilliamson6180]

0:16 The voice of Frances Barber.

[@GamerWho]

10:00 Virginia Hey from Farscape

[@gamewithgreg]

Was anyone else annoyed when the video stopped for an ad and couldn't wait to get back to the ads

[@rickybe]

Trying to find the Viscount Biscuit Ad. The one with the earl on it quoting “It is rather good isnt it!” Anyone seen this up anywhere?

[@MrAshton75]

8:17 the late great Les Dawson

[@louisewoodward7283]

Loads of these were not 90s adverts. They are from the 00s.

[@themissinfowar6629]

0:17 Cryax from MK uses same robot sounds

[@pagesinyellow]

I remember these. 💕

[@paulwalford9122]

Was waiting for the classic tango advert ahaha

[@harmlessdrudge]

09:16 Giles from Buffy

[@aj863]

Those Mr kipling country slices are decent

[@nightsky6413]

"I was your teacher...😂😂😂

[@Dezzasheep]

Can we go back and do it all again?

[@Jaydot34.]

Those coffee ads were strange 😂😂