Advil Pain Medicine TV Commercial “You’d have to take two Tylenol” – Feb 1987

Advil Pain Medicine TV Commercial – “You’d have to take two Tylenol”

Advil is primarily a brand of ibuprofen (a pain reliever in the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug category). Advil has been called a “megabrand” because it offers various “products for a wide range of pain, head cold, and sleep problems.”

History
The brand first entered the American market in 1984 through Whitehall (itself a division of Wyeth, which was purchased by Pfizer in 2009), the same year ibuprofen gained Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for over-the-counter (OTC) sales in the United States (being available via prescription since 1974). Within ten years of having a market presence, it outsold Bayer Aspirin and was a fierce competitor to Tylenol (primarily a brand of acetaminophen). In the mid-1990s, for example, it held 13% of the multibillion-dollar over-the-counter American market for analgesics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advil

Video preservation by DDVF.com for educational purposes. Original airdate was Feb 1987.