| Change History (The Early Years...) |
| 17th December 2000 |
| Minor update this time and the last one before Christmas so see you in the new year. |
| I have now added Colm O'Rourke to the credits page for being a regular contributor. Thanks Colm. |
| Thanks to WereCat and Mark Smith for their contributions. |
| Added 23 new adverts. |
| 26th November 2000 |
| I have added three new video clips as follows: Guinness Snail Racing, Bacardi Breezer featuring Tom the cat and John West Salmon stealing from bears!. |
| Thanks to Gale Gordon, Emily Shenton, InactiveX and Colm O'Rourke for submitting adverts. |
| Added 16 new adverts. |
| 12th November 2000 |
| Minor update this time with a few new adverts and pictures. |
| Added pictures of Jonathan Kydd, Lisa Snowdon and Anna Friel. |
| Thanks to Colm O'Rourke, Julia Jennings and Andrew McGuckin. |
| Added 29 new adverts. |
| 22nd October 2000 |
| I have finally got round to buying a new capture card so this update contains lots of new video clips. I have taken note of the requests although three of the clips are my choices and can you believe that they appeared consecutively in one advert break, all in the same aspect ratio (Don't you dare hum the Twilight Zone theme). That was one great 1.41.9s period. Ho Ho! |
| While we're on the subject, I have had lots of requests for the 'Watching the game, having a bud' advert but they seem to have stopped showing it now and I don't have it on video. Sorry :( |
| Added pictures of Marianne Faithful, Frazer Hines, Graham Heifer, Donovan Baily, Lilly Savage, Mike Reid, Sting, Terry Wogan and Tracey Brabin. |
| Thanks again to Colm O'Rourke for his regular contributions and Tony Aitken for submitting some of his own voiceovers. |
| I have now corrected the details of the current Breathe.com advert. The music is in fact "Wet Stuff" by Folk Implosion which features a sample from "Gnossienne" by Satie. |
| Added 42 new adverts. |
| 4th October 2000 |
| A mid-week update, can you believe it! This has been prompted by the numerous submissions by Colm O'Rourke. Thanks for those Colm. |
| Added pictures of Amanda Burton, Steps and a bunch of people from Big Brother. |
| Updated the Fun Facts page for August/September. |
| Added 36 new adverts. |
| 24th September 2000 |
| Minor update this time with a few new adverts and pictures. |
| Added pictures of Cat Deeley, Denise Lewis, David Blaine and Rachel Willis. |
| Many thanks to Dave Murray for submitting adverts. |
| Added 13 new adverts. |
| 28th August 2000 |
| I have added the recent Sure for Men advert which features two men going for a job interview at the very strange Sure for Men 'factory'. This clip is taken from the original uncut version which has never been televised. I have also included an out-take from the same advert. Many thanks to Dave Young for the clips. |
| The bad news is that I have had to give back the capture board I had borrowed to create the video clips. There will now be gap of a few weeks until I get round to buying a new card before any new clips will appear. If you fancy helping out in this area by sending me adverts on tape or in digital form (please ask before sending large video clips in email), capturing adverts or recommending a good capture card, then please send me an email. |
| Added pictures of Louise Lombard, Anthea Turner, Cherie Lunghi, Cilla Black, Clare Grogan, Carole Smilie, Gloria Estefan, Joan Collins (scarey picture), Julee Cruise, Linda Lusardi, Mariella Frostrup, Sara Cox, Sinead O'Connor, Tamara Beckwith, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Twiggy, Amanda Lamb, Steve Buscemi, Craig Charles (silly picture), The Cranberries, Duran Duran, Fi-Fi (the girl in the Sony Playstation advert with the computer modified face), The Divine Comedy, Paul Gascoigne, Julian Clary, Robbie Coltrane and Roberto Carlos. |
| The video clips are now sorted with the newest ones at the top of the page. |
| Updated the Fun Facts page and added a new chart which shows the most popular search expressions that result in people finding this site. |
| Thanks to Me, David, Me, Uplah and Me for submitting adverts this time. |
| Added 21 new adverts. |
| 30th July 2000 |
| I am receiving a lot of requests for video clips of adverts and even though I am creating tapes of adverts (can you believe it!) it is still difficult to match your requests to the ones I have taped, but do keep sending in the requests as I am saving them all. In spite of all that, I have added a Budweiser advert and the Egg advert featuring Stephen Hawking. |
| I'm still not sure why I created it but the animated strip of celebs that can be seen above has been updated with lots of new images. |
| Thanks to Adam Dorman, David Murray for submitting adverts. |
| Added 15 new adverts. |
| 9th July 2000 |
| Added pictures of Christina Aguilera, Anna Brecon, Helen Baxendale, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Natalie Imbruiga, Aimee Mullins, Estelle Skornik, Shania Twain, Davina McCall, Enya, Jayne Middlemiss, Janet Jackson, Hélène Mahieu and the Ground Force team. |
| I have updated the charts on the Fun Facts page. |
| From a long list of requests for video clips, I have added the Tango Megaphone advert and the Rolo Cookies advert featuring Skippy. |
| Added 13 new adverts. |
| 25th June 2000 |
| I have corrected the dates on many of the adverts. If you notice any that are still incorrect then please send an email to contributions@uktvadverts.com. |
| Thanks for all the requests for video clips. I haven't added any to this update as the process is quite time consuming but I will try to please at least some of you in the next update. |
| I have added a year field to the contributions page to allow older adverts to be submitted as well as current ones. |
| Added 8 new adverts. I know it's not a lot but I haven't been watching much telly recently :) |
| 11th June 2000 |
| As requested by a few of you, I have added a new video clip of the Breathe.com advert along with one you haven't requested (Boddingtons version of the "The Shinning"). |
| Updated all the charts on the Fun Facts page. |
| Thanks to Dave Alderman, Adam Dorman and me for submitting adverts this time. |
| Added pictures of Denise Richards and Alan Shearer. |
| Added 28 new adverts. |
| 29th May 2000 |
| Each advert entry now has an associated year of transmission to help distinguish new adverts from some of the older ones. This information has always been stored in my database but has never been published until now. I hope this helps. |
| I have added bits of JavaScript to many of the pages to allow better navigation around this site. |
| The results of the survey involving viewers of Channel 4 and Sunday Times readers for the The Top 100 Adverts has been added to the Fun Facts page. |
| Added two new video clips, one old (Hamlet Cigars featuring Gregor Fisher as the Baldy Man) and one new (Heinz Salad Cream featuring a slice of pizza found in a bed). Note: If you do request a video clip of an advert, please provide a full description to help me identify the exact one. And while we are on the subject, if you haven't guessed already, I cannot guarantee that a request for an advert will be successful but I will try to do my best. |
| Thanks to Dave Murray for submitting adverts. |
| Added 11 new adverts. |
| 24th May 2000 |
| There was a problem with the last upload of the database which has now been fixed. I blame it on sportal.co.uk for having a lower case first letter which my sorting scripts didn't cope with very well :( |
| As an added bonus I have added pictures of Cast, Elastica, Ewan McGregor, Gloria Hunniford, Jane Birkin, Mohammed Ali, The Prodigy, Supergrass, Ian McCaskill, Bill Gyles, Henry Naylor, Ant + Dec, Jane Horrocks, Prunella Scales, Barbara Durkin, Dominic Diamond and Keith Chegwin. |
| 21st May 2000 |
| Added a fantastic new Multimedia page containing video clips of adverts both old and new. |
| This site was Site of the Day on Radio 2's Steve Wright show on Monday. My next goal is for this site to be the lead story on the Nine O'Clock News :) |
| Tweaked the look of the buttons down the left hand side of the page mainly because I forgot how I created the other buttons when I came to add the new button for the Multimedia section. Doh! |
| Invitations for the SmartGroup are now sent directly from this page for a quicker turnaround. |
| Many thanks to Colm O'Rourke for submitting adverts this time. Just you and me Colm it would appear :) |
| Special thanks must go to Marc Weiner for submitting the Trebor adert which he appears in at the moment. |
| Added 32 new adverts. |
| 7th May 2000 |
| Minor changes this time with updated Fun Facts and the usual batch of new ads. |
| Apologies to the small percentage of people who have clicked on direct links to Amazon only to be greeted with a 'Cannot be found' message :(. I'm afraid Amazon have a habit of deleting titles on a regular basis but I will try to keep the links up to date. Thank you for your patience. |
| Thanks to the people who submitted adverts although many of them were either already on my site or incomplete! :( |
| Added 21 new adverts. |
| 19th April 2000 |
| I have now joined the Amazon association programme in the USA and added funky new icons to distinguish between the UK and USA sites. |
| Improved the speed of the internal search download a little and added search engines for Amazon (hey I didn't link for once!) and MetaCrawler. |
| Thanks to Colm O'Rourke and James Hart for submitting adverts. |
| Added 14 new adverts. |
| 9th April 2000 |
| Added a proper (well better) search engine using JavaScript. |
| Revamped the Fun Facts page with a new Top Twenty based around the statistics I receive from Amazon which give an indication to the most popular artists providing music for adverts. |
| Added JavaScript checking to the contributions form for hassle free contributions :) |
| Made a few changes to the frames to allow users of the Opera browser to view this site (although please note that there is a problem with the search engine using this browser). Thanks to Mike Henry for the information. |
| Thanks to Mark Wilson and Colm O'Rourke for submitting adverts for this update. |
| Added 21 new adverts. |
| 26th March 2000 |
| I have eventually got round to registering a domain name for my site. The official address is now www.uktvadverts.com but dont worry, I'm not planning to move the site from it's current location so no need to update your bookmarks just yet! |
| Started the SmartGroup which can be found at http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/tvads. |
| Added a few more book links to Amazon making a grand total of @8@. |
| Thanks to David Murray, Mark Wilson and Dan for submitting adverts this time. |
| Added 22 new adverts. |
| 12th March 2000 |
| Added another 200+ music links to Amazon as well as 2 book links! Er, that last bit didn't sound too impresive so I will add some more next time :) |
| Thanks to Jonathan Lawson, David Murray and Frances Morrow Brown for submitting adverts. |
| Added 14 new adverts. |
| 5th March 2000 |
| The statistics gathered from adding banners to my site indicate that this site is now receiving over 1000 hits a day with a record of 1700 on Monday. Although this is good, I would still like to see more contributions from you lot out there :) |
| I have doubled the number of links to Amazon since the last update. Many of the them link to albums with sound samples. Great. Super. |
| I tweaked the contributions page so it looks a bit smarter. |
| Added 8 new adverts. |
| 20th February 2000 |
| There is now a total of 203 links from music entries direct to Amazon. |
| Added pictures of Jamie Oliver, Alexei Sayle, Alan Hanson, Ray Winstone, Stephen Fry (very scary picture), Aphex Twin, Teddy Sheringham, Phil Cornwell, Tony Hawks, Jack Dee, Eddie Izzard, Paul Merton, Shane Richie, Terry Christian, Willie Rushton, Jim Davidson, Johnny Vaughn, Burt Reynolds, Bentley Rhythm Ace, David Duchovny, Robbie Williams, Keith Allen, Manic Street Preachers and the Fun Lovin' Criminals. There is now a total @9@ pictures on this site! |
| Added a very bizarre picture of Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins to replace the old one and a better one of Paul Whitehouse. |
| Added 16 new adverts (wow, same as last time :). |
| 13th February 2000 |
| I have started to add direct links for music and books to Amazon's site. |
| Added 27 new pictures (see if you can find them). |
| Thanks to David Murray and all those contributers who prefer to remain anonymous :) |
| Added 16 new adverts. |
| 6th February 2000 |
| I have held off for a very long time but have finally decided to add banners to my pages in order to attract a little more traffic. I hope they don't spoil your enjoyment of my site too much :) |
| 5th February 2000 |
| First update of the millenium! Wow!! Erm... Yes. Moving on... |
| Many apologies for not responding to all those people who have sent me emails asking for information on adverts. I am gettings quite a lot of them and most of them I can't answer :( |
| The guestbook was getting rather large so I have split it into two for faster loading. |
| The search page was also getter big so I have split that into two separate pages for Artist and Advert. |
| Thanks to Mark Jones, Mark Smith, David Murray, William Coughlan, Wayne Smith, Phil Bunce, Matt Buchanan and Martin Joynes. |
| Added 79 new adverts. |
| 21st November 1999 |
| Nothing too exciting this update apart from lots of new adverts! |
| Thanks to Tim Massey, M Bosano and Tom Banks. |
| Added pictures of Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. |
| Added 46 new adverts. |
| 3rd October 1999 |
| It was only a few months ago in May when I was celebrating 10,000 hits and now the hit count is over 20,000. It's great to see that people are finding my site useful and are coming back time and time again. Thanks to everyone! |
| I added a new catagory of 'Cover Version' to be used where the music supplied for an advert is either a parody or a cover version done specially for the advert. |
| Thanks this time go to Martin Joynes, Mark Smith, Phil Dooley, Kimball Lucas, Antony Meadley and Tom Banks. |
| Added a picture of Denise Van Outen. |
| Updated the Channel 4 logo on the Java TV. |
| Added 64 new adverts. |
| 10th August 1999 |
| I finally go round to adding the review of my site that appeared in The Guardian's 'The Editor' magazine on the 17th of October 1998. Pretty quick turnaround eh! Anyway, you can find it here. |
| As promised, the newish Java banner of pictures still doesn't do anything :) |
| Thanks to Mark Wilson and David Murray (again:) |
| Added pictures of Melinda Messenger and Courteney Cox. |
| Added 32 new adverts. |
| 21st July 1999 |
| Completed the updated look and feel with new buttons and a new banner. |
| Added loads of new pictures. Too many to mention by name! |
| Fixed many if not all of the links throughout the site thanks to a great little program called Xenu's Link Sleuth. |
| Added the Java banner of pictures above (it might do something useful next time but I doubt it). |
| Thanks to David Murray, Dave Jones, Claire Bradford, James (I'm sure you know who you are :), Samantha Smith, Richard Pigg, Jimmy Floyd, Rebecca Stunell and Jim Turbitt. |
| Added 46 new adverts. |
| 8th May 1999 |
| I have made several tweaks to the look and feel of the site including new fonts and new icons. Hope you like the changes :) |
| Wey hay...I have reached 10,000 hits (and it only took me three years). |
| I now have enough adverts to increase the charts from Top Ten to Top Twenty. Hurrah! |
| Thanks again to Tim Massey for supplying lots of new Music entries. Keep up the good work Tim! |
| I would like to thank Andy for pointing out that I incorrectly compared Arthur Smith's ability to make comparisons with his ability to act as a compère. This situation has now been corrected and measures have been introduced to make sure this never happens again :) |
| Thanks to Nick Ackerman and Chris Bramhall for submitting adverts. |
| Even more thanks to David Fiddes for his regular contributions. Why don't you have a look at his dead dotty homepage. |
| Added pictures of Lara Croft, Kristen Johnston, Andie MacDowell, Heather Locklear, Homer Simpson, Madonna, The Cardigans, The Corrs, Dervla Kirwan, Fiona Allen, Prince Naseem Hamed, Patsy Kensit, Sharron Davies, Kathy Lloyd and the Game On cast. Phew! |
| Added 72 new adverts. |
| 29th March 1999 |
| I received a note from Duncan Wells who has voiced lots of adverts in the last few years. He has appeared on TV although he hasn't given me details :( Due to the rather complete list that was supplied, he enters the charts at the number one spot! |
| I have dropped most of the content of the credits page in favour of a mention in the change history section. This will only be done for people who submit a few adverts and have agreed to be credited, so... |
| Thanks to Imhotep The Architect for submitting several adverts. |
| A mention must also go to Tanya Rich for submitting some of her own voice-overs! |
| Many thanks to all of the people who send me notes praising my site otherwise I think I would have chucked it in by now :( |
| Added 109 new adverts. |
| 10th January 1999 |
| Happy New Year! |
| Another long gap between updates but this one is a massive update. Many thanks to Tim Massey for the majority of the new music entries. |
| Added entries for Peter Lawlor who creates original music for television adverts. |
| Added a picture of Hugh Laurie and Showaddywaddy (Exciting stuff!). |
| Added 518 new adverts! |
| 15th November 1998 |
| Sorry for the long gap between updates but I have been away for three weeks. |
| While I was away, I was informed that my site had appeared in the Guardian Newspaper. Wow, fame at last. When I get hold of the article I will scan it in. |
| It's nice the see Angus Deayton back in the advert game and very strange to hear Tom Baker doing another advert for china figures! |
| Added a picture of Carol Vorderman and the Balls (Zoe and Johnny). |
| Added 26 new adverts. |
| 6th September 1998 |
| Added a picture of Jennifer and Clarissa. |
| Added 36 new adverts. |
| 26th July 1998 |
| Many thanks to Tim Massey who submited over 100 new music entries. Now if only everyone could be as helpful :) |
| Added 116 new adverts. |
| 21st June 1998 |
| It's the World Cup and it won't surprise you that many of the adverts added this time feature footballers. They are multi-talented after all :) |
| Added pictures of Linda Evangelista and Kate Moss. |
| Added 32 new adverts. |
| 25th May 1998 |
| Added a picture of Claudia Schiffer. |
| Added 25 new adverts. |
| 26th April 1998 |
| Thanks to Gap's web site I now have a full record of all the people to appear in the recent Gap adverts. |
| Added a picture of Laura Cisneros. |
| Added 46 new adverts. |
| 22nd March 1998 (Major update) |
| Added a new intro page to lead you into the site and allow access to the non framed version of the site. |
| Merged the artist and advert index into one and added cross links between artists and adverts. |
| Split each letter into a different page for quicker loading and re-worked the look of the artist and advert pages. |
| Merged the artist information into the table for each artist. |
| Added a simple search facility. |
| Dropped the wanted page as it was never used. |
| Replaced the Top Ten page with a Fun Facts page. |
| Fixed the counter, again |
| Added a picture of Melanie Sykes. |
| Thanks to Victoria Wilson for supplying a link to her Alan Davies site |
| Added 17 new adverts. |
| 22nd February 1998 |
| Updated all of the advert links and removed any bad ones. |
| Added loads of new advert links with lots of links for the musical artists. |
| Added new pictures for Kim Bassinger, Bob Hoskins, Caron Keating, Frank Bruno, Caprice, Debbie Greenwood and Jennifer Aniston. Now what a strange collection that is :) |
| Added 7 new adverts. |
| 1st February 1998 |
| This update finally reveals the identities of the actresses who play the Thelma and Louise characters in the Peugeot adverts. They are Annie Dunkley and Julie Graham. Thanks to anonymous for that :) |
| Zero response on the New for 1988 idea above. I'll give it another couple of months then drop it :( |
| Added 19 new adverts. |
| 4th January 1998 |
| Happy New Year! |
| Added 22 new adverts. |
| 23rd November 1997 |
| Nothing too exiting this update, just a few new adverts. |
| My service provider has been having problems with their mail server and so I may have lost some email over the last few weeks. If you sent me an advert but you don't see it in this update, please resend it. Thanks! |
| Graham Patterson, you asked to be added to the update list but the email address you gave me didn't want to receive mail. Can you send me a valid email address? |
| Added 14 new adverts. |
| 13th October 1997 |
| It's my birthday today. OK, not very advert related but what the hell :) |
| Added new pictures of Valerie Singleton, Nick Hancock, Rory McGrath and Paul Whitehouse obtained using my scanner. Hurray :) |
| Fixed the counter. It had been reset to zero :( |
| Added 21 new adverts. |
| 28th September 1997 |
| I recently got back from holiday, hence the lack of updates. |
| If any of Mark Wilson's friends are reading this, he's watching too much television :) |
| I promise that this will be the last mention of my scanner until I actually scan something :( |
| Added 16 new adverts. |
| 4th September 1997 |
| Added many more descriptions for the actors and actresses. |
| Many thanks again to Mark Wilson for some of the adverts in this update. |
| My new scanner is still sitting there waiting to scan things. Maybe next time :) |
| Added 15 new adverts. |
| 24th August 1997 |
| The site reached the 1000 hit mark sometime this month and it only took a year and a half :( |
| Special thanks to Mark Wilson and Bob Stanley for many of the adverts added this update. |
| I bought a scanner over the weekend so expect to see some more pictures over the next few months. |
| Added 13 new adverts. |
| 28th July 1997 |
| The majority of this update's adverts have again come from myself and Dave. Come on people, give me a hand! :) |
| Added 15 new adverts. |
| 19th July 1997 |
| This has been the longest gap between updates for quite some time but it is summer and it seems a shame to waste it watching television :) |
| Added a few more adverts to the wanted page. |
| Added 18 new adverts. |
| 22nd June 1997 |
| Added the first animal in the shape of the Dulux dog. |
| Another couple of ads from Tony Gardner. This time his 'co-star' in the Renault ads. |
| Added 17 new adverts. |
| 12th June 1997 |
| Bad news from my 'inside' contact Tony Gardner. He reports that "There's a major dispute with the Advertisers and Equity over how we get paid. My agent, and most of her clients (in common with most luvvies) are refusing to do ads unless it's under the terms of the old contract". |
| Received three adverts from the actor Stephen Greif. |
| Many thanks to the good people at uk.media.tv.misc for identifying a few more ads for me. |
| Oh no! It looks like I wrongly identified Lesley Sharp as the voice of the little girl in the Safeway ads. Two other people said it was Melanie Kilburn so for now I will go with the majority. Bah! |
| I sneaked in my second cartoon character posing as an actor in an advert. |
| Moved some of this wonderful change history to a seperate page. |
| Added 14 new adverts. |
| 8th June 1997 |
| Updated the wanted page. |
| Optimised the generated html to speed up the load time. Brilliant Eh! |
| Added 11 new adverts. |
| 1st June 1997 |
| Added many new descriptions. |
| Added a few links to the descriptions |
| Updated the contributions page to allow a song title to be specified. |
| Reset the top ten for June (The top ten is reset at the start of the month and reflects the 'movers' for that month as the site is updated throughout the month). |
| Added 10 new adverts. |
| 26th May 1997 |
| Changed the main banner. |
| Added several new pictures. |
| Added a brief description to many of the artists. This will be built up over time. |
| Had a visit from Tony Gardner (The nerdy bloke out of the Renault ads). He even added a few more adverts that he appears in. The cheek of it :) |
| Improved the 'noframes' version for those of you with 'older' browsers. |
| Added a few links to the links page. |
| Added 18 new adverts. |
| 20th May 1997 |
| Changed the top ten so that it reflects a whole month of changes. |
| Added 10 new adverts. |
| 6th May 1997 |
| Nothing exciting apart from updating the wanted page and adding 16 new adverts. |
| The Top Ten looks a bit static. I need more adverts... |
| It snowed today in Newbury (I may be straying from the point now). |
| 12th April 1997 |
| Added the Java TV. |
| Changed the menu buttons again and improved the colour scheme. |
| Added a guestbook and a wanted page. Tell me what you think. |
| Updated the links and improved the credits, topten and contributions pages. |
| Added 16 new adverts. |
| 6th April 1997 |
| Started change history. Is this good or bad? |
| Added 22 new adverts. |