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Sponsors

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This table shows all the sponsors that have advertised during the show. Some data has been drawn from The Countdown Page.

Sponsor Start Date End Date Notes
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
Specsavers Opticians 06/02/2006 07/02/2007
Digital UK 05/03/2007 04/03/2008 Not technically a sponsor.
Ibuleve Gel 01/05/2009 12/05/2010
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. FOSTEREDSDEFORESTS 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, sponsors appeared for all new weekday afternoon programmes on Channel 4 and do not appear in the early morning repeats of the show. Subsequent sponsors up until Recliner Factory in January 2023 followed this format.
MyBuilder.com 14/01/2019 13/01/2021
Key Equity Release 14/01/2021 13/01/2022 Featured eight to twelve letter anagrams (e.g. HEAPSNIPSHAPPINESS) with the answer revealed either after the show ended or before the end of the jingle. Episode 7451 and 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, while Episode 7652 did not carry it as the episode was transmitted five days later than billed in the early morning timeslot due to technical difficulties.
Assistive Bathing 18/01/2022 01/04/2022
Recliner Factory 04/04/2022 16/01/2023 On certain days, bed products are featured and the company is advertised as Adjustable Bed Factory instead. Episode 7846 did not carry the sponsorship owing to the death of Queen Elizabeth II the previous day.
Specsavers 03/02/2023 Present Specsavers Audiology (03/02/2023 to 08/05/2023) → Using the catchphrase "Find the Lost Sound" and a standard letters board in green, spells out words which are related to or produce sound. Words spelt out at the beginning and end of an episode have clues read out beforehand.

Specsavers Home Visits (09/05/2023 to present) → Features people in various homes declaring the length of a word and spelling it out to optometrists by using letters on an eyechart that the latter group is holding.