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Revision as of 14:37, 5 April 2021
This table shows all the sponsors that have advertised during the show. The data is drawn from The Countdown Page.
Sponsor | Start Date | End Date | Notes |
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The Times | 22/08/1994 | 30/09/1994 | First sponsor. |
Seven Seas | 11/01/1999 | 28/04/2000 | Before the break an anagram was displayed. The answer was displayed after the break, with the caption 'Did you get it?' |
Lyons Corner House Cakes | 18/05/2000 | 14/08/2000 | Each day of the week was taken up by a different product of their range; Mondays − French Sandwich, Tuesday − Cup Cakes, Wednesday − Swiss Roll, Thursday − Viennese Whirls and Friday − Battenberg. |
Flora ProActiv | 31/10/2000 | 27/04/2001 | |
Kellogg's All-Bran | 22/10/2001 | 18/10/2002 | Last sponsor in the Richard Whiteley era. |
Specsavers Opticians | 06/02/2006 | 07/02/2007 | The only sponsor of the Des Lynam era. |
Digital UK | 05/03/2007 | 04/03/2008 | Not technically a sponsor. Last sponsor of the Des O'Connor era. |
Ibuleve Gel | 01/05/2009 | 12/05/2010 | First sponsor of the Jeff Stelling era. |
Vitabiotics | 17/05/2010 | 20/12/2013 | Consists of a range of Vitabiotics products; Wellman, Wellwoman, Jointace, Pregnacare, Osteocare, Visionace, Cardioace, Wellkid, Menopace, Immunace and Neurozan. |
Vale Bridgecraft | 06/01/2014 | 04/04/2014 | Notably came up with QUILATY before every show. |
Betterlife from Lloyds Pharmacy | 19/05/2014 | 23/12/2015 | |
HSL: Your Chair Specialists | 04/01/2016 | 23/12/2016 | |
Ibuleve Gel | 03/01/2017 | 22/12/2017 | Adverts included people engaged in various physical activities accompanied by nine-letter anagrams with topical answers (e.g. FOSTEREDS → DEFORESTS being unscrambled over a photo of a lumberjack chopping wood). Notably, two of these anagrams had the answers ballgames ☓ and elbowroom ☓, which were not valid in any Oxford Dictionary Online edition used in 2017. For reasons unknown, Episode 6601 did not carry Ibuleve sponsorship. |
Gala Bingo | 02/01/2018 | 21/12/2018 | Unlike its predecessors, starting with Gala Bingo, sponsors appear for all weekday afternoon programmes on Channel 4 and do not appear in the early morning repeats of the show. |
MyBuilder.com | 14/01/2019 | 13/01/2021 | |
My Equity Release | 14/01/2021 | Came up with FACTBLOOMER → COMFORTABLE or HEAPSNIPS → HAPPINESS with the answer being displayed after each show ended. Episode 7451 and Episode 7452 did not carry the sponsorship as they debuted on More4 owing to the broadcast of Cricket matches on Channel 4 at the normal timeslot. |