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Do You Wanna Touch Me

A cover of the song by Joan Jett from her 1981 album Bad Reputation appears in a 2008 TV commercial for Hewlett-Packard's TouchSmart computers.

Sinhala alphabet

Today, the alphabet is used by approximately 16,000,000 people to write the Sinhalese language in very diverse contexts, such as newspapers, TV commercials, government announcements, graffiti, and schoolbooks.

The Johnston Brothers

By 1956, Johnston had established Johnny Johnston Jingles Ltd., which was responsible for hundreds of advertising jingles in the early years of British commercial television, including "A million housewives every day pick up a can of beans and say - Beanz Meanz Heinz!", "You can be sure of Shell", and the first ever colour TV commercial in Britain, for Birds Eye peas in 1969.

Universal Business Adapter

The Universal Business Adapter (UBA) was an imaginary product described in a 2002 TV commercial that advertised IBM's WebSphere Integration Software.


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A1 Steak Sauce

Rock musician and singer Meat Loaf has appeared in a TV commercial for the product, to promote its new slogan: "A.1. - Makes beef sing."

Aaahh Belinda

Aaahh Belinda is a 1986 Turkish fantastic comedy film, directed by Atıf Yılmaz, featuring Müjde Ar as a young actress appearing in a TV-commercial for a shampoo, who finds herself transported into the role she plays.

András Kállay-Saunders

During his visit in Hungary he noticed a TV commercial urging talented singers to audition for the nations talent competition Megasztár.

Bend Me, Shape Me

American Breed's “Bend Me Shape Me” was later featured in a 2000 TV commercial for Flexon eyeglass frames (revived in 2007), as well as a 2001 TV commercial for Mercedes-Benz station wagons, a 2002 TV commercial for Gap Stretch Jeans, and the 2001 Futurama episode "Bendless Love".

Billysi

Urška wrote and performed a song with cooperation of Blue Production Team for a TV commercial for the Slovenian mobile operator Si.mobil (Vodafone).

Boob tube

The Boob Tube, a 1975 soap opera/TV commercial parody marketed to capitalize on the success of The Groove Tube and similar comedy films of the era

Caron Keating

Keating was the face of Sainsbury's Reward Card from 1996 to 1999 and also appeared in a TV commercial for So Good soya drink in 1999.

Dejan Udovičić

within the campaign "Quit smoking, insure your life", Dejan Udovičić with his fellow countryman Vlade Divac and Slobodan Soro recorded a TV commercial for Dunav Insurance, where they spoke to people intending to give up at least one packs of cigarettes a day for their health and future.

Eric Siday

His now-legendary Maxwell House "Percolator" TV commercial was one of these first innovations.

Haruo Inoue

Through them, He has been holding annual Afghanistan movie festival in Tokyo since 2005, and has been organizing to make feature films with Afghanistan's film makers, such as "Kabul Triangle" by students of Department of Arts in Kabul University, and "The Roots" by Eng. Latif, CEO of Afghan Film, while inviting several creators of Japanese TV commercial industry as collaborators.

Harvey Sid Fisher

Fisher was able to self-finance the recording of the album from the royalties he received from appearing in Lincoln Continental TV commercial.

He Thinks He'll Keep Her

The song was motivated in response to a 1970s Geritol TV commercial in which a man points to his wife’s many accomplishments and attributes, and then concludes with "My wife...I think I'll keep her".

IPod advertising

The TV commercial (featuring Caesars song Jerk It Out) for the first version of the iPod shuffle used a green background with black arrows moving in the background representing the "shuffle" icon.

Jef Gaitan

Jef Gaitan (Born September 21, 1989) is a Filipino Actress who first started as a TV commercial model and the year 2009 she joined Survivor Philippines Palau which was aired on GMA network.

Joe Bowen

Recently, he appeared in a TV commercial for Harvey's promoting the "bigger" Angus Burger and used his famous aforementioned catchphrase.

Johnny Delgado

Besides his work in film and television, he also appeared in the Philippine version of Coca-Cola's TV commercial for Cherry Coke.

Josh Myers

He starred in the TV commercial of Three Lions and earned 2010 his first lead role in the British thriller film Psychosis.

Joy Zipper

The single "1" has been featured on Cigna's "Go You" TV commercial and in season 3 of WB Network's One Tree Hill.

Karl Roy

In September 2007, shortly after returning home from the recording of a TV commercial for San Miguel's Red Horse Beer, Roy suffered a stroke, paralyzing the right side of his body.

Lamorna Watts

Whilst studying a BA Honours English Literature degree at the Roehampton University of Surrey, Watts continued modelling fronting numerous global hair brands such as L’Oreal, Aveda and Nicky Clarke as well as performing in a TV Commercial and music videos.

Malandragem

Those who practice malandragem (o malandro) act in the manner of the popular Brazilian adage, immortalized in a catch phrase of former Brazilian soccer player Gérson de Oliveira Nunes in a cigarette TV commercial (hence the name it was given: Lei do Gérson, or Gérson's law): “I like to get an advantage in everything.”

MetroPCS

MetroPCS's TV commercial series (from 2010 to 2011) features two Indians "Ranjit" played by veteran actor Anjul Nigam and "Chad" who make fun of American popular culture, which received mixed reviews.

Morgan Fisher

He became a TV commercial music songwriter, including songs written or arranged for Cat Power, Karin Krog, Jose Feliciano, Zap Mama and Swing Out Sister.

Pop Has Freed Us

It was released in the summer of 2003 on Minty Fresh after "Way You Walk," a track from the band's third LP, Buildings and Grounds, garnered mainstream exposure in a TV commercial for Dentyne Ice.

Rita Walter

Prior to that, she was also one of Don Herbert's child assistants in the Watch Mr. Wizard television series and was featured in a TV commercial for Phillips Milk of Magnesia in 1967.

Roman Yakub

In 2003, Roman Yakub received a National Telly Award for the music to the TV commercial promoting a new concert venue for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Stiller and Meara

The duo's own 1986 TV sitcom, The Stiller and Meara Show, in which Stiller played the deputy mayor of New York City and Meara portrayed his wife, a TV commercial actress, was unsuccessful; Stiller had better luck with his next series, playing George Costanza's father in Seinfeld.

The Stiller and Meara Show

The Stiller and Meara Show is a proposed 1986 television sitcom featuring the comedy duo Stiller and Meara (Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara) as the deputy mayor of New York (Stiller) and his wife, a TV commercial actress (Meara).

Theme from Mission: Impossible

In 2010, a fictionalised account of Lalo Schifrin's creation of the Mission: Impossible tune was featured in a Lipton TV commercial aired in a number of countries around the world.

Vincent Pontare

Since the breakthrough with "Don't Hate on Me" which was played frequently in a TV commercial for a mobile company Pontare has had time to shoot a video for the song "Miss Blue" in Los Angeles starring supermodel Anine Bing.