Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
SO, time for a bit of an interesting little detour, I think.
In late 2007-early 2008, I made DVDs of these Japanese commercial compilation uploads I found on YouTube that I really liked (I was 15, yes, I was always a dork) and fortunately, that included these compilations that disappeared off YouTube from the original uploader's suspension. But here's what I remember: the guy was a former American expat who lived and worked in Japan in the 90's.
He created 3-4 of these Japanese commercial compilations (or "CM" as they call it there) and themed them, like "Nice", "Funny" and such. I *think* this one's "Nice" but I'm not 100% sure.
Either way, this is *very* easily my favourite one of those compilations. It has such a warm, wholesome feel to it and some of the music is REALLY good (unfortunately, due to rights reasons I had to remove the JAL ad with Chang and Aska, but I thoroughly recommend the song used in that ad, as its a real belter: youtube.com/watch?v=tV3_P1jxiCA ). I'll upload the rest of these later, but for now, enjoy!
CONTENTS!: (Obviously, some of you may have to help me with some of these)
1) Kodak Advantix Film ad
2) McDonalds ad
3) UNISYS ad (Featuring Tokyo Disney Resort, both the visuals and music are super cosy and I've really missed seeing this, since these original uploads were taken down)
4) Sunstar Tonic shampoo ad
5) Sapporo ad
6) Sony Hi-Vision TVs ad (Yes, Hi-Vision WAS/IS Japan's version of HD and yes, the irony of this being uploaded in 4:3 and lower than 480p isn't lost on me.)
7) Panasonic Digicam ad
8) SmileVin eyedrops ad
9) TV ad for "Samurai Spirits" video game for Super Famicom (aka "Samurai Shodown" for SNES elsewhere)
10) TDK ad
11) Dekavita C ad
12) Toyota Duet ad
13) Daihatsu Midget II ad (Strangely cute ad, slightly off name but hey)
14) Suntory Coffee Boss drink ad
15) Mannan Life ad
16) UHA Sugar-Free Candies ad (Those crunching sounds are unnerving, but that's down to sound design more than anything else!)
17) Cubicle ad
18) Kowa ad for..."Freeze Relief"-style pain relief, maybe?
19) Clear Cream toothpaste ad
20) Ad for Macaroni Gratin and related pasta ready meals
SO, time for a bit of an interesting little detour, I think.
In late 2007-early 2008, I made DVDs of these Japanese commercial compilation uploads I found on YouTube that I really liked (I was 15, yes, I was always a dork) and fortunately, that included these compilations that disappeared off YouTube from the original uploader's suspension. But here's what I remember: the guy was a former American expat who lived and worked in Japan in the 90's.
He created 3-4 of these Japanese commercial compilations (or "CM" as they call it there) and themed them, like "Nice", "Funny" and such. I *think* this one's "Nice" but I'm not 100% sure.
Either way, this is *very* easily my favourite one of those compilations. It has such a warm, wholesome feel to it and some of the music is REALLY good (unfortunately, due to rights reasons I had to remove the JAL ad with Chang and Aska, but I thoroughly recommend the song used in that ad, as its a real belter: youtube.com/watch?v=tV3_P1jxiCA ). I'll upload the rest of these later, but for now, enjoy!
CONTENTS!: (Obviously, some of you may have to help me with some of these)
1) Kodak Advantix Film ad
2) McDonalds ad
3) UNISYS ad (Featuring Tokyo Disney Resort, both the visuals and music are super cosy and I've really missed seeing this, since these original uploads were taken down)
4) Sunstar Tonic shampoo ad
5) Sapporo ad
6) Sony Hi-Vision TVs ad (Yes, Hi-Vision WAS/IS Japan's version of HD and yes, the irony of this being uploaded in 4:3 and lower than 480p isn't lost on me.)
7) Panasonic Digicam ad
8) SmileVin eyedrops ad
9) TV ad for "Samurai Spirits" video game for Super Famicom (aka "Samurai Shodown" for SNES elsewhere)
10) TDK ad
11) Dekavita C ad
12) Toyota Duet ad
13) Daihatsu Midget II ad (Strangely cute ad, slightly off name but hey)
14) Suntory Coffee Boss drink ad
15) Mannan Life ad
16) UHA Sugar-Free Candies ad (Those crunching sounds are unnerving, but that's down to sound design more than anything else!)
17) Cubicle ad
18) Kowa ad for..."Freeze Relief"-style pain relief, maybe?
19) Clear Cream toothpaste ad
20) Ad for Macaroni Gratin and related pasta ready meals





![[3/3] ITV (UK) Ads, Continuity & Junction (30th December 2018)
[PART 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdkNMwGOubQ ]
[PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dux5zcmNWX8 ]
...well, you know how I said this would get uploaded before the weekends through? Well...at nearly 5am where I am as I start typing this out, I can at least say its still the weekend *somewhere* in the world, right?...RIGHT? :O
Whatever which, this is the last part of these continuity uploads for the between-Christmas-season ITV Network Premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Had to remove a Quikbooks ad because, again...the Olympics broadcasting death-gripper for Europe and tentative member of the Warner/Discovery merger Europsport (presumably) still put greasy butterfingers over the rights to the ad for...some reason?? And therefore, if it was still in this upload, itd of banned the video in almost everywhere in the world. Not a perticularly exciting ad, so I guess the loss wont be mourned, but yeah. :@.@ Eurosport, what the heck?
Rendering a version of this removing the ad was something all my editing software didnt want to deal with neither that day for some reason, so I re-downloaded a *super* sophisticated piece of software that I should properly learn later to get a version out there that retains 50fps. x) Weird. Ah well, this is finally done at least...not often I finish a set I start with these of late, haha.
Without further ado, CONTENTS!:
1) Person inaccurately frets that the wait for stuff happening will be in 2 minutes, when here comes an ad break that balloons it to several more so, oops / ITV Back Soon ID Sting / Just Eat sponsership bumper
2) ITV ID Sting / Seat ad (Definitely feels like this was an ad without a part with a product and a logo and it was put to a bidding war between a bunch of companies before Seat won. xD)
3) James Holiday Villas ad
4) Current Account Switch Guarentee uh...PIF? Ad? I actually dont know how to classify this.
5) Lidl ad
6) Harveys ad
7) Furniture Village ad
8) Vitality ad w/ Apple Watch Series 4 promotion
9) ClearScore ad (Im so sorry that this is included, at least this campaign is dead.)
10) Marcus by Goldman Sachs ad (...what the hell? Are you just storing money? WE DONT HAVE ENOUGH, FUNNEL IT TO US, WORM I...I...??!)
11) J2O Glitterberry ad
12) ITV ID Sting / Promo for Cleaning Up
13) Just Eat sponsership bumper / ITV Were Back ID Sting / Shouting Lava, Lava, Lava / And BOOM, end credits, time to wait for the sequel that was actually really good but nerds got weird on because they hate women, I guess / Just Eat sponsership bumper
14) ITV ID Sting / Yakult Light ad (Is this...? Is it?!...)
15) Tempur ad (With Serena Williams, beating out Dreams for Sport-related mattress promo by 2.5 years!)
16) M&S ad
17) Furniture Village ad
18) Currys PC World ad
19) Kuoni ad
20) Lemlift ad (The Quikbooks ad was originally between this and the Kuoni ad, btw)
21) Volkswagan e-Golf ad
22) ITV ID Sting / ITV ident / Oh good, I was really having a nice time over this Christmas period, time for some misery for balance! Thanks, ITV News. :D [3/3] ITV (UK) Ads, Continuity & Junction (30th December 2018)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OYFf1IAkx3M/mqdefault.jpg)




![ITV Ads and Continuity (Late Spring 2000 [?], UK)
This will be the beginning of something different Ill do now. Ill do a lot less seperate uploads of breaks in-between these shows and etch them all into one big upload each, starting with this. Which is cobbled together from breaks of a Robson Green TV movie that Ive hardly ever heard about called Rhinoceros, which was taped over for a documentary from BBC One not too long after this was aired.
Anyhoo, CONTENTS!:
1) Sunset and walking, walking and a sunset / Rhinoceros title card Anglia ITV sting
2) Mastercard ad
3) BT ad (Turns out the tapes I have seem to have a LOT more E.T.-featured BT ads than I thought. So get used to these over this month or so. ;) )
4) Special K ad
5) Woman / Womans Own magazines ad
6) Chicken Tonight Sizzle & Stir ad (YEEEES)
7) Legoland Windsor ad (How does the act of making teeth out of the skin of oranges...relate to the fun of being in...Legoland Windsor? How does that make sense? @_@ Ive been there a few times, its an awesome theme park. Best in the UK. But...WHAT?)
8) BT ad (Ahhh, the early 2Ks internet...)
9) Rhinoceros title card / Random shot of cliff / Raining with unnerving, light-hearted laughter / Rhinoceros title card / Anglia ITV sting
10) Vauxhall Agila ad
11) Walls Bacon ad (EDIT: Jesus christ, Im starting to obsess over this ad after posting it here. This has so many layers of silly in it that its insane...how ridiculously game the builders are for BACON, the comedic concequences of their bacon distractions, the managers amazing screaming at the end, the hinting that they did NO work and spent the next 8 or so hours of their shift just talking on and on over bacon before finally having some...this is incredible. Point to you, Walls. Point to you.)
12) Nokia 8210 ad
13) Calgon ad (HAH! I KNEW all these years that jingle ended with a *ting!* sound effect...oh, sweet evidence that Im not crazy!)
14) Kelloggs...I have no idea...ad?
15) Assertahome.com ad
16) Ribena Toothkind ad (Nee nee nee nee nee-nee-nee!)
17) ITV Nightly News promo w/ headlines:
- ITV has beaten the BBC for the right to record TV highlights of Premiership football games
- An air ambulance aircraft crashed in the river Mersey
- A man has been convicted for murdering Laura Cain
18) Rhinoceros title card / Bus rides up a road in a sunrise with weird opera in the background ITV Ads and Continuity (Late Spring 2000 [?], UK)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q4GN3BOwFCk/mqdefault.jpg)