TOP 10 MOST EFFECTIVE BRITISH ADVERTS | American Reaction 

I think that's a cultural difference at play here. In North America they'd probably sugar coat it a little bit to make it more palatable, just a generalistic observation of mine :)

@@blazednlovinit yeah probably

I heard an American reactor describe one of their ads about not leaving your child in a hot car. The advice the advert gave was to leave something important in the back so that when you get out you won't forget your child. Basically putting the child as lesser value

@@AlainnCorcaigh Lol, I'll make sure to give my child my cigarettes so I don't forget her /s 😂

I agree. There's proof in the pudding. I watched these when young and I remember them and their messages . I change my smoke alarm battery, I'm a first-aider, give to charity....

Exactly!

True

gets me every time, horrific to go through, and the thought of losing a wife or daughter to traffickers, not knowing where they are or how to even start to try and help/get them back....

She's a brilliant actress in her films I've seen. But that advert tops them all .

Dunno how it wasn't #1, but it's still damn graphic to see after all these years.

@@RobertPayne556i think it’s because the war ad was more effective in the sense that there were a LOT of donations after it, meaning it caused people to actually act on it.

Made it worse when they used them in infants assembly just show why we "don't play on the building site over the road". Messed me up as a 5 year old seeing 'brain' matter on a digger, watching the boy electrocute himself on a open wire or getting buried alive. I was in tears and a teacher walked me out of the hall and gave me a google eyed fluffy thing with a hardhat on. Glad they don't do that anymore, I'd have kept our children off rather than subject them to that. I'm 38 and it still messes with my head when I think back. They had no issues showing us that, but no real sex education to speak of. 🤷‍♀ I'll not start on that right now though. 😁

@@teenybabs Well I'm really sorry they affected you like that, but you were in the minority.The fact that you still remember means it got the message across.

@@twpsy634 Yeah, it got the message across, but I'm also overly protective and always see the worst case scenarios without seeing positives till they are pointed out. My father and husband are labourers, but I can't watch them work, even on a push bike without envisioning everything that could possibly go wrong. No doubt my autism and ADHD go against me there, but those mini vids didn't help. Luckily my paranoia hasn't rubbed off on the children, they all take after their Dad and see both negs and pos in almost everything.

There are or were a few PSA compilations on here

The reason you don't see them on British t.v anymore, may have something to do with the head of the BBC and friends being part of No 2....

I also remember that one, could never really get that image out of my head. I suppose that shows it did it’s job but when one of these comes on at night it hits even harder.

I saw that advert too, it had a profound effect on me, it’s how I stressed the importance of never going over the speed limit in built up places. 30 miles an hour a child has a 80% chance of survival, 40 miles an hour 80% chance they will die. I said it to my 17 year old the other day as she is going to learn to drive. I’m 60 now so I don’t know how old I was when I saw it.

Everyone in the UK above 35 is still traumatised by that advert 🤣. I cant believe it isn’t included here, it’s much better than ‘crisis’.

@@Firestorm381that was a late 1990’s one.

There was a accident in the UK recently where a man hit a car late at night travelling 141mph. There were 3 people in the car he hit. Two of them didn't survive. One was the sister of the driver. The other was the driver's 8 month baby. He was sent flying through the air in his baby seat for 50 yards, he landed across the road out of his car seat and hit his head first. A lorry driver across the road found his body. The driver was drunk, having had a row with his wife at the airport, the driver was picking up her sister from the airport. they take things seriously here for a reason.

I completely agree. It's important to talk about topics like this and bring awareness sometimes.

@@HailHeidi The goal of those adds is not to spread awareness but to brain wash the masses using a propaganda method based on psychological shocks popularized under the name "Ludovico technique" in the novel (and the movie) Clockwork Orange. In the fiction the technique involved forcing a patient to watch, through the use of specula to hold the eyes open, violent images for long periods of time. In reality, the function of the specula is obtained by the the pretext of benevolence : We shock you to rise awareness on such or such topic. If you protest or resist that means you are a bad person. The general public get used to allow mass media abuse them with repeated shocks of ever increasing disturbing content and even get addicted to their daily dose of psychological violence. The desired effect is to impose a sense of guilt upon people which induces them into political submission.

I understand they save lives, but, honestly, watching them as a kid can be pretty terrifying experience. Most of the kids will get over it, but I can imagine someone sensitive can really freak out. I don't think you need to be as graphic to reach adults, I mean, I think adult people can think for themselves and read between the lines.

@@proosee These would have all been shown after the 9pm “watershed” that UK television has. After that time children should not be watching TV unsupervised but it is obviously an advisory and not a law.

@@StephenWestrip I've seen similar aired during the day, so...

Pretty much, it's fine to educate and speak to the rational mind... but you'll animate people a lot more if you tickle their instincts instead

You mean 2014, when the Nazi regime started to bombard the east. Children there suffer since 2014, grow up in cellars with every day threatened to be blown up by some sick Nazis using weapons often delivered from NATO to randomly bombarde the cities or blown up by mines, some looking like toys, which are spread even over the cities by the tenthousands.

Brilliant point. 👍

A bit black and white, good and evil. What about the complicated grey areas.

@@richardj9016 Do you have a complicated struggle with the grey areas? Maybe you are overthinking and need to be more decisive? Angels and Demons are relatable. Being pulled by Janet and Dave is a bit first world problems.

@@richardj9016 ?

@@Argrouk What is “Janet and Dave” ?

And yet it makes zero impact on roads.. It's almost like no one cares 5s after ad ends. Unfortunately no matter how graphic it is people just don't care on basis "it can't happen to me".

@@wykydytron generally ads are not there to save people, just to make them aware, like everything, if the person who is watching has no regards for anything it won't make any difference but maybe one out of all of them might change their mind and might help, at the end of the day it's up to the people to decide, normal people that are aware of the danger will not and will remind them why you shouldn't do it.

The very old "think once, think twice , think bike", or the equally old "Driver fatigue , it can put you to sleep, for good!"

The problem with First Aid training is that in the US, you can be sued if you provide First Aid and it is unsuccessful. Which is totally crazy

@@ShaneWalta That's the complete opposite of what you need the public to be concerned about. I have no good answers for that. But here in Norway you can be changed with leaving or not helping a person in a life-threatening/helpless situation. I really don't think that an unsuccessful first aid case would go so far as to court here at all. There's so many laws stating that you have to help in these situations. But with so many putting anything on their social media, there's so many that records accidents live or upload quickly without helping. The police here have said that they'll start charging people who don't help at accidents and just record. I hope you and people in general still get a first aid course, because it would be invaluable in a crisis so people know what's right to do and everyone will be better prepared for it.

my sister played a track to death "child of the universe" from late 60s early 70 one line i am a child of south africa i an a child of Vietnam i am a child of northern ireland i am a small boy with blood on his hands nice to see that 50 years and only the countries have changed

That's just about the definition of "effecdtive".

@@A_nony_mous but ironically they all forgot to buy batteries.

Invite me and give me a night i London,

There several about school shootings

The last one had a part two, more about how refugees are treated. It's still just as devastating.

i remember that NSPCC one too, saw it loads as a kid. makes me cry every time now just thinking about it

I have the urge to have a drink now as well.. I usually don't so I've nothing here. This was harsh.

Hopefully it reminds you to test your smoke alarms at least :)

Aw thank you!