But for commercial TV channels, adverts have been their main income source for the past 70 years. The first advert on UK television was for Gibbs SR toothpaste, broadcast on September 22, 1955.

Research commissioned by Channel 4 found that pensioners, pregnant women, and disabled people are significantly ...

One Irn Bru advert is often said to be Scotland’s most memorable Christmas ad. Adverts on Scottish TV have always been clever ...

Advertisers are over-representing black people in TV commercials while pensioners and the disabled are being forgotten, research has found. Channel 4's Mirror on the Industry study discovered that ...

Pensioners massively underrepresented in TV adverts, research finds - Disabled people were also among the least represented groups in TV adverts, despite accounting for a significant proportion of the ...