1941: First legal We'll now discuss the first-ever recognised television commercial. To do so, we must return to July 1st, 1941, in New York City. The WNBT (now WNBC channel four) broadcasted an advert for the watchmaker Bulova, before a baseball game.

The world's first television commercial aired for the Bulova Watch Company. The ad was only 10 seconds long, cost between $4 and $9 to create, and was seen by about 4,000 people in New York.

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.

Old Spice's Inception-style TV ad is the longest ever at 14 hours - and will run forever online. If you have a product which lasts "forever" then what's the most appropriate way to advertise it? Well, how about with a commercial that will also never end?

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.

According to the Story of Advertising by James Playsted Wood, the first known written ad in the history of advertising was found by archeologists in the ruins of Thebes, known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset. It was the papyrus created in 3000 BC on behalf of a slaveholder who was trying to find one of his slaves.

Here's how Old Spice made the longest commercial ever. Could you sit and watch a commercial for 14 hours? Procter & Gamble made one for Old Spice and it's just been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest commercial ever.

July 1st, 1941 The Birth of TV Advertising The first TV ad ran on July 1st, 1941, before a game between the then-Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.

The Queen's Messenger Television's first drama,The Queen's Messenger, is broadcast from Schenectady, New York station WGY on September 11, 1928. Russian-born, American scientist Vladimir Zworykin demonstrates the first practical electronic system for both the transmission and reception of images in 1929.

The longest TV commercial by duration is 14 hr, and was produced by Procter & Gamble (Brazil), promoting Old Spice Deodorant, and aired in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, on 8 December 2018. The TV commercial was broadcast on the TV channel Woohoo on 8 December from 6am to 8pm.

Philbin set a Guinness World Record for "Most Hours on Camera" on his August 20, 2004, Live show (surpassing Hugh Downs), which gave him a total of 15,188 hours on television.

AD denotes the calendar era after the birth of Jesus Christ. The traditionally accepted year of Christ's birth is labeled AD 1 and the year before is 1 BC. This calendaring system was devised in AD 525, but was not widely used until after AD 800.