Best Television Advertisements In the UK

The Top Ten

1 Compare the Market: Or should it be compare meerkat? Aleksandr and his "simples" catchphrase is a phenomenon.

I never saw this commercial, but it sounds funny!

These ads have always entertained me.

2 Cadbury's drumming gorilla: In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins never sounded better. It has won most ad awards.

3 Guinness white horses: The surfers waiting for the perfect wave followed by giant white horses was shot in Hawaii.

4 Electricity Board – creature comforts: Clay animals and a voice-over by Johnny Morris were in a Heat Electric campaign.

5 Marks & Spencer – not just food: Dubbed food porn, it featured the voiceover "this is not just food. This is M&S food".

6 T-Mobile – flashmob: Commuters were bemused when 350 other travellers broke into a three-minute dance routine.

7 Tango: Britvic's ads featured an orange man telling people they'd been Tango'd.

8 Honda- cog: The ad saw different pieces of a Honda Accord car forming a chain of colliding parts.

9 Marmite – love party/hate party: The Hate Party campaigned to ban the toast-topping, while the Love Party pledged to create a shrine to it.

10 Halifax: Howard from the Halifax

The Contenders

11 Sony – colour like no other: For Sony's Bravia launch, hundreds of thousands of coloured balls were fired down a San Francisco street.

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