Although it's unlikely that a bot actually wrote this -- as @donohoe pointed out, 1,000 hours comes out to about 250,000 unique Olive Garden commercials.

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.

Olive Garden is one of those chain restaurants that will always have a special place in most people's hearts - in large part, because of the breadsticks. The Italian-American chain is known for their unlimited salads, endless pasta offerings and those famously warm, soft breadsticks that make customer feel like family.

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 most expensive advertisement ever made is entitled No. 5 The Film and cost $33 million when it was made in 2004, which is equivalent to around $52 million today. The advertisement took the form of a very short film, lasting 180 seconds.

Go Olive Garden As of Sunday, "When you're here, you're family" will be replaced with: "Go Olive Garden." Straight to the point, sure. But did parent corporation Darden restaurants really need to employ ad agency Grey New York to come up with that?

When unlimited soup and breadsticks were added to the menu, the slogan was changed to "When you're here, you're family". The slogan changed in early 2013 to "We're all family here".

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. The company made it to promote Old Spice's new Durascent technology. You probably missed it. The 14-hour ad aired on December 8, 2018, in São Paulo, Brazil, according to Guinness.

Fentimans creates world's longest advert with an 168-hour film. Fentimans has created the world's longest advert as part of an integrated campaign designed to celebrate the brand's slow but unique botanic brewing process.

The most expensive TVs in the world

• Samsung micro-LED display, The Wall – ₹12 crores.
• STUART HUGHES PRESTIGE HD SUPREME ROSE EDITION- 15.9 crores.
• TITAN ZEUS – ₹11 crores.
• Stuart Hughes Prestige HD Supreme Edition – ₹10 crores.
• PANASONIC TH-152UXIW – ₹5 crores.
• C SEED 201 – ₹5 crores.
• Panasonic 152″ Plasma TV – ₹ 3.5 crores.

With a budget of $14 million, Cherry Falls has the distinction of being the most expensive made-for-TV movie in cinematic history, though the slasher horror/comedy was never meant to be a direct-to-cable release.

Olive Garden apologizes to KC police officer asked to leave because he was armed. The president of the Olive Garden restaurant chain called and apologized to a Kansas City police officer who was asked to leave an Independence restaurant because he was armed, a company spokesman said Sunday evening.