A TV spot is like an advert you see on television for services or products. It has a story, actors and a message and it aims to convince the viewer of the benefits of the product or service the advertiser is promoting.

Bulova watches The first TV ad was aired in July 1941 during a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. The ad was for Bulova watches, and it lasted for just over a minute. This was the first time that people were able to see a commercial on their television sets.

the Discount Tire Company's Thank you commercial The world's longest running TV commercial is the Discount Tire Company's Thank you commercial, produced by Swartwout Productions (Arizona, USA) and first aired in 1975. The same commercial has been aired continuously every year in parts of the USA.

Bulova The use of television advertising can be dated back to the year 1941, when the company, Bulova, ran a 10-second advertisement before a Brooklyn Dodgers game on a local channel promoting their watches. Those 10 seconds changed advertising and television forever.

TV spots are the most common form of TV advertising. They are the adverts that we encounter at the beginning, middle and end of all our favourite shows, across linear TV and broadcast VOD.

An advertising spot is a multimedia advertisement that airs at a specific time. Businesses choose where and when they want their advertisement to appear, also known as the spot. Advertising spots first became popular on televisions, where 30- and 60-second ads ran during commercial breaks.

Gibbs SR toothpaste The first TV ad broadcast in the UK went on air on ITV on September 22, 1955, advertising Gibbs SR toothpaste. In Asia, the first TV ad broadcast appeared on Nippon Television in Tokyo on August 28, 1953, advertising Seikosha (subsequently Seiko); it also displayed a clock with the current time.

In June of 1941, the FCC lifted its ban on TV advertising, and commercials hit the airwaves one month later. The ad for Bulova watches above became the first commercial on television - or at least the first legal one.

“Commercials longer than 30 seconds are intended to attract attention by giving marketers more time to tell stories,” writes The New York Times. “Those shorter than 30-seconds are meant to have surprise value: they are usually over before commercial-haters can zap or zip past them.”

An infomercial is a longer-form video or television advertisement that acts as a stand-alone program to pitch a good or service with a call to action. Infomercials are different from regular commercials because they last longer and have no breaks in the program.

A commercial is an advertisement for a business. Commercial activity is selling goods or services for profit. There's also commercial trading in the forward and futures markets, generally done for hedging purposes.

Purpose is to convince the target audience to buy a product. able to explain that most TV commercials are created to persuade people to buy products or services.