2 March – After much publicity, a two minute advert for Pepsi featuring Madonna's single Like a Prayer is shown during a commercial break on ITV 12 minutes into The Bill.
In September 2011, Gold's cover of the Billy Fury song "Wondrous Place" was used in an advert for the British beer brand Carling.
In 1992, Davenport was filmed dancing on a Soho roof for a short film ‘Joy’ by Mehdi Norowzian, a performance that inspired the Anticipation Guinness advertisement.
As well as this, she has become particularly well known and popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland following the 2005 Renault Clio advert "France vs. Britain" directed by Ridley Scott’s daughter Jordan Scott who also directed the 2007 follow up spot "More Va Va Voom" again starring Hesme as Sophie and English actor Jeremy Sheffield as Ben.
He also appeared in an advert for the sandwich store chain, Subway alongside track and field athlete Holly Bleasdale and later gymnast Louis Smith.
The advert's mini-play commences with a nerdy young Turkish male opening his refrigerator to find two cold cans of Pepsi Max.
Directed by Dawn Shadforth, the humorous and raunchy video for "Bag It Up" presents an advert promoting the male-behaviour-altering "Girl Powder".
In 2008 a television advert was launched featuring people dancing using treadmills similar to OK Go's music video for the 2006 song "Here It Goes Again".
Simmo also starred in an advert for the company in 1986 alongside a female companion who only appeared once named "Heapo", a cartoon Hippopotamus.
In December 2012 another advert was launched this time featuring Maurice Wigglethorpe-Throom (played by Robert Webb) the founder of Compare the Market and his assistant Spencer who find out about Aleksandr (who makes a cameo appearance in a photograph) and Compare the Meerkat.
In February 2011 a new advert started featuring Cara (voiced by West End star Louise Dearman) singing the track "Chain Reaction", a song that was originally penned by Bee Gees and sung by Diana Ross.
The advert for season two featured guest appearances from Richard Blackwood and Muhammad Shahid Nazir (One Pound Fish Man).
The band sang and performed in a Japanese advert for Royal Dutch Shell, called Shell, We Shall.
Since 2009 she has been prominently on display, in a premium bus stop advert, alongside her "Chicago" co-star Gary Wilmot.
It gained further popularity in the UK when used in a 1998 advert (with a cameo appearance by Quentin Crisp) for the bodyspray "Impulse".
On 1 January 2014 a new advert was launched featuring Gio driving a tour bus that says Go Compare Tours on it, whilst the passengers are seen talking to each other about insurance whilst going to a place called "LlandofsavingmoneyandgettingtherightdealgogoGoCompare" (a parody of llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch) as Tom Jones's version of "Green, Green Grass of Home" is played on the bus's radio.
The song was chosen as the main tune of the Italian well-known TV programme Festivalbar 2006 and as the advert melody for an important telephone company.
In September 2013 released a cover of Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody", the song featured in an advert for supermarket chain Sainsbury's for their by Sainsbury's range.
The advert featured Jenny Logan dancing around a typical British living room in high heels, shaking the powder onto the carpet and vacuuming it up, while singing a musical jingle.
In 2004 Cabral moved to London and joined Fallon, producing the Cadbury's 'Gorilla' advert and the Sony Bravia series.
She had a hit with her own version of Burt Bacharach's song, "I Say a Little Prayer" (made famous by Dionne Warwick) that is currently used in France in the TV advert for the Crédit mutuel.
The station was featured in the Head & Shoulders advert "Don't break up with your hair" in early 2009.
In 1979/80 Moreton did a TV advert voice over for Tea manufacturer and distributor "Tetley".
Shortly after its completion, One Eskimo's ‘Hometime’ was used on a Toyota Prius advert in the USA.
The advert premiered at half time of the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final, opening up a new Pan-European audience to Camille's work.
In November 2012, Everything at Once was released as Two's third and final single after being sampled in a Windows 8 advert, and became Lenka's second most successful single to date.
In 1980, Irvine responded to an advert placed by writer Gerald Kingsland and they became self-imposed castaways for a year on the isolated and uninhabited island of Tuin, in the Torres Strait between New Guinea and Australia.
In August 2013 a new advert was launched showing a man named Bill running around Croydon with an army of cats whilst a spokesman played by James Lance saying that Bill is so Moneysupermarket.
The video also contain promotional advertisement from Carousel, a 139-second advertisement directed by Berg for Philips, won the Film Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the most prestigious award in the advertising industry.
She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make Perpetual Motion (1995), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas dual carriageway and featured as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin in The Apology, a Guinness advert.
The campaign advert featured Lacey, Claire Goose, David Tennant, Hugo Speer and Ian Kelsey.
In 2011, while at Leyton Orient, he made a high profile appearance in a television advert for the Nintendo DS in the UK.
As a 13-year old, he appeared in a well-known British advert for McDonald's, in which he played keepie uppie, during the 1994 FIFA World Cup campaign.
The song "Cat Piano", from The Ghost That Carried Us Away, was featured in a BBC advert for Finding Neverland, as well as on Gossip Girl in 2008 (Season 2, Episode 2).
In 2005, Byrne joint the Irish public broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann, after his wife spotted an advert for continuity announcers, he began working on shows with Ryan Tubridy and Derek Mooney.
The Lucozade advert itself features Tempah, drummer Travis Barker and Irish boxer/footballer Katie Taylor, credited separately and later together as "The Wild Ones".
She earnt her living as a secretary for 3 years before working as a receptionist at The Empire in Leicester Square, where she says she saw an advert for the London Newspaper Group as an Editorial Assistant.
Bizarrely, given its sentiment mentioned above, the tune is featured in a current (2012-3) Doritos advert.
She also appeared in a classic Heineken advert "The Water in Majorca" with Bryan Pringle.
The Very Best of The Velvet Underground was released on the back of a successful Hyundai television advert, which featured the band's 1970 recording "I'm Sticking with You" off Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition).
As well as a TV advert campaign, a large billboard featuring the album's cover was erected on Hanger Lane.
The software was also first advertised as a small classified advert in QL World magazine, but soon became a flagship product for the company formed to sell it, Sector Software.
In early 2007, Trevone Bay was used as the setting for the Renault Clio Ripcurl advert, featuring two surfers contemplating going into the sea.
The first UGTV advert broadcast on national TV was a spot for Sony created by Tyson Ibele, an 18-year-old from Minneapolis.