Top 10 Most Effective British Adverts REACTION 

Just to let you know we don’t pay for healthcare so most aren’t trying to sell anything. Just making people aware of the service.

Health Treatment in the UK is free ! They are awareness adverts, life’s can be saved if people know basic first aid and CPR,

Most these adverts are for charities so it's not necessarily selling. Also, the rules on selling is very different in the UK. We don't have adverts like you guys because big pharmaceutical companies don't make the same money from us. These are more akin to psa's, from charities such as Barbados or St John's ambulance or the Red Cross. It's not a promotion of a product rather than a service and how you can better prepare yourselves to help others

The depressed guy was actually diagnosed with cancer. He goes into remission/recovers only to choke to death simply because nobody around him knew first aid

I'm from the UK although I now live in Poland, but I remember most of adverts, particularly the "I Am a Crisis", "Sarah's Story" and "Break the Cycle" ones. But there are many different things about them: *These adverts are hard-hitting, but when they're broadcast, they're not broadcast consecutively. An advert break could consist of adverts for things such as Frosties cereal with a family being happy and jolly, then the next one might be SCS with some happy people jumping on some sofas which are £650 reduced from £950. And then suddenly, one of these adverts would come on, and then afterwards, it's back to an advert for ASDA with them bragging about how much cheaper than Tesco they are. This adds to the effectiveness of these safety adverts because they stand out more than if a whole bunch of them were broadcast one after the other. *ITV, which is the main advertising channel back home in the UK, is split up into regions which broadcast advertising both across the whole channel and whichever region your in. It's a hangover from the days when ITV was a collection of individual regional franchises which used to produce and broadcast content both for their own part of the country and to be put out across the whole ITV channel. Anyway, some of these adverts would have been shown in certain ITV regions, but not in others. So for example, I'm from Swansea in Wales, so the Transport for London one in this compilation with the motorcyclist who's just been knocked down by a car wouldn't have been broadcast on my home ITV region (ITV Cymru Wales) because Wales is in an entirely different part of the UK to London. We're literally on opposite ends of the country from each other. But ITV London would have shown it because it applies to London. Even the smoke alarm advert wouldn't have been shown in Wales because we have different standards and statistics when it comes to fire safety as we have devolution. The boy in the advert even mentions England specifically, so what would be the point of ITV Cymru Wales broadcasting an advert which doesn't affect us no matter of its message? Most of the channels which carry advertising in the UK are centralised from London, so even adverts for things which only affect England are still broadcast across the rest of the UK as well, so in those instances ones like the fire alarm advert would be shown nationally. But as ITV remains the biggest advertising broadcaster in Britain, it's just hit and miss with what adverts each region decides to broadcast even when it comes to safety adverts. *Our safety adverts don't pull any punches because that's just how we British are as a people and as a nation. American culture is just all about image and escapism, with the aim of getting the viewer out of their own lives for a certain amount of time and make them forget who they are and the lives they lead. In the UK we don't do that, at least not culturally. Everything from our soap operas to adverts are about social realism. With some exceptions, the majority of people in our adverts look just like us, the characters in our soap operas look just like us and are just like us, our safety adverts are effective because they don't beat around the bush. They tell you how it is and what could happen if you don't test a smoke alarm or know first aid. Long story short, we don't sugar coat things! Also, please note that none of the charity or health adverts in this compilation, or any which are shown on British television in general, are for profitable gain. The UK has the National Health Service, which is free at use and paid for through general taxation, so those adverts are to raise awareness, NOT advertising any chargeable healthcare services.

The first aid choking one was shocking,he survived cancer and then choked on food.

The one thing i appluad us for here in the Uk is we are not afraid to tell it as it is. Yes these are upsetting, but life isn't always the fairytale that is depicted in some adverts. None of these were trying to sell anything though some are charities like the Red Cross and Barnardo's and are hoping for donations. The one i really remember is the first one. The sale of smoke alarms went though the roof after that advert my Dad fitted 3 in his house. The actress Emma Thompson isn sex trafficing one is sometimes accussed of jumping on the band wagon for various causes but i see it as her knowing she has pulling power and using it for the good of others. That preformance was outstanding.

I always have had love and respect for Emma Thomson as an actress but that bar just got raised immensely by seeing that trafficking advert! Wow! 😱 🤜💥🤛

While at work and eating an orange a segment got caught in my throat and i could not breath i went outside and bent over and it came up the people working with me could only watch. not being able to take a breath while awake is something not to be forgotten.

Do you know what- when you said "why is basic CPR and first aid taught in schools" I thought yeah why isnt it, Im going to make sure it is by starting a Parliamentary petition to have it taught

I do wonder how effective that Save Syria's Children advert would have been if it was "If America were Syria" It's basically that moment from A Time To Kill ("now... imagine that she's white") the advert.

It's not about making money to line your own pockets, this is not the US! It's about raising awareness and having a 'genuine' desire to help others in need. A culture difference between the US and any other culture, that, it seems, just cannot be breached 🤨

and the lady doing the trafficking advert is one of the UK's best actresses Emma Thomson what a woman

The reverse little boy one wasn't mental health. it was helping a scared abused child have a life

Yep - we don’t fuck about when it comes to Public Safety messages.

The world can be an ugly place where bad things happen just for the sake of it with no rhyme or reason we good people need to be exposed to the horrors of life so we're armed with knowledge against it

Theres this ad where three people, 2 adults and one kid are driving and crash into a tree. The driver and kid go up to heaven becuase they wasnt wearing seatbelts. The other adult, who had his seatbelt on, woke up in the car a couple seconds later. Its called "Heaven can wait"

I'm shocked they didn't have the one about the reckless/drunk driver who sped through a country road, swerved, killed three or four people, in the process you see a gent about 19, just proposed to his gf, get hit by him, fall dead in her arms, ends with his trial. That one hit hard.

Great reactions! If you do a lot of UK reactions you will see a big increase in subscribers!

im from the uk and yes people who do adverts like the ones you have just watched they do it that way to get noticed a wake up call every now and then becouse lots of people just need that kick up the arse to remind us lot in the uk hey life isen sweet for everyone they the people in the uk (the ones who make the adverts) have been doing this sort of thing maybe before i was born (1970)

The PSA featuring the man diagnosed with cancer who recovers but then chokes didn’t have audio or any voice over cut, it didn’t have any for the large part because as the saying says “a picture tells a thousand words “

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These videos are an eye opener.

Also Sainsbury 1914, that is such a powerful advert.

This whole thing is literally nightmare fuel

There are adverts that teach basic first aid.

your a good man Jay and i like your stuff, Peace and love

You are wrong i am from Scotland these adverts taught us and i have lived what i have seen

You were correct about the copyright.

the last one always gets to me :(

Broo I haven’t watched your stuff for a while but I remember when you got your first 1k subscribers now you on 11K well done bro the hard work is paying off 👊🏻🔥

The cancer one was to show that 140,000 die of cancer every year and simple first aid could save 140,000 lives a year, Would be good for you Americans to get these advert companies do one on how many people die in America because of no healthcare or homelessness

Its shock tactics that always leaves an impression and you dont forget The best way to get your message across That looks like emma Thompson (actor)in the sex trafficking commercial

Barnardos is a children’s charity for foster homes

by the way kid watch these at school

Seen the last ad and all i can rememebr is 😘-Adam!!!

Sell something? This isn't America buddy.

These ads hurt. They are meant to. Would you remember them otherwise?

NO a lot of the comments are wrong because although we have free healthcare a lot is done by charities and they need funds, Motor neurone disease, St Johns ambulance, Barnados for children, first aid and McMillan for cancer are charities that need more funding, the adds are to get donations and they are good adverts that work because us brits give a lot to charities,

No its life

I legit thought morotnurine one was a sexual-abuse ad

wow this is really affective but way too graphic for me

War did happen here .... 12 months of constant bombing ...

the lady acting in the trafficking advert is Dame Helen Mirren one of the UKs greatest actresses, good on her for doing this advert

Steven Hawkins had it

Not adds public awareness

God bless you x

It’s so twisted it see an advert trying to advise people of the stark reality of not being safe when you drive, of possibly dying, that it’s not a risk Worth taking - and just assuming it’s to sell something. Holy s h I t

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Aa3o7vWG93w.htmlsi=ok_vCgjndLuMkau1... its the sequal, a couple years later follows girl in no.1 save the children... somehow even more harrowing

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Aa3o7vWG93w.htmlsi=ok_vCgjndLuMkau1... its the sequal, a couple years later follows girl in no.1 save the children... somehow even more harrowing..

That is so dark

Torture by any other name I don't get it ???????? Are they the same person ????????

this is why i hate ad brakes on TV government ads are the worst