Since late 2024, social media users have spread a supposedly real vintage advertisement for scotch- and bourbon-flavored toothpaste. The image of the ad spread on ...

Brian Palmer, an advertising executive who wrote the first commercial to air on British television, has died at the age of 96 ...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), an independent regulator of the advertising industry in the U.K., is taking issue with an advertisement for Colgate-Palmolive's Colgate Total toothpaste, ...

Palmer persisted, however, and in 1955 he wrote and produced a commercial for Gibbs SR toothpaste, the first television advertisement in Britain. Broadcast at 8.13pm on September 22 1955, 12 minutes ...