Well, people love nostalgia and many search for old television adverts that they loved when they were children. They are often fun talking points. People still sing the songs from old adverts or quote lines from adverts which they haven’t seen in years.

People love to watch old adverts.

Unlike old films which can often still be copyrighted and sold, adverts are not.

Take the film Grease for example, it was originally released in 1978 yet today it is still being sold. To buy or rent it on Amazon Prime you are looking at paying around £5 and so the owners would not want people uploading the whole film to YouTube for others to watch for free.

Adverts and old news clips are different.

They aren’t sold like films, they are created to sell products and services and so there is no real commercial loss. In fact, for some companies, there may be an indirect financial gain.

After seeing the Pizza Hut advert with Mikhail Gorbachev, I got an urge to eat pizza and so I imagine other people were the same and that some of them took themselves off to The Hut for their lunch.

Money is generated by being part of the YouTube partner program where you earn money anytime an advert is watched. Many adverts get watched thousands of times.

Adverts are shown on and around your uploads. When those adverts are shown and clicked on, you earn money.

As I write this, the Gorbachev Pizza Hut video has been watched over 2.6 million times!

If the owner of that specific upload is in the YouTube Partner Program and earned just 1 pence per view, he would have earned over £26,000!

The classic 80s ‘We hope it’s chips it’s chips’ advert for Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills has been seen 128,346 times as I write this.

You can upload the adverts as is, or you can do reviews of the adverts or compile several together. Giving your uploads a different spin to the other uploads will set you apart.

I’m not saying that you will become incredibly wealthy doing this, but you could make a decent semi-passive income by uploading these old clips online and make money whenever they are watched.

As well as YouTube, the adverts can be uploaded to other platforms such as Twitch and TikTok.

It’s possible that some companies may not want their old adverts showing and you may be asked to remove them. Remove them; it’s easy enough to do.

No one’s going to get into any major trouble sharing old adverts unless they were incredibly defamatory about the company itself.

A simple ‘cease and desist’ notice is the most you are going to get as law suits are costly. As long as you comply you will be fine.

If you fail to take down any old clips you have been asked to remove, it is likely YouTube would be informed and your account closed down, that’s the worst thing that will happen. But I doubt that it would come to that.

It’s a simple idea, and easy to execute. You will need a video player and a decent source of videos to find those classic adverts other people haven’t yet uploaded.

I’m not sure how many ‘personal’ videos are available to buy these days though. I imagine most people throw them in the bin and don’t consider selling them. But there maybe a few gems out there at carboot markets or even house clearance shops.

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Kind Regards

John Harrison

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