Every year the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis puts on a program of British TV ads, and more than 10,000 people pay $8 or so to watch about an hour of ads.

That might have something to do with the fact that Minneapolis is a regional center for advertising agencies and video production, but I don't think THAT many people here work in advertising.

British TV ads, the best of them anyway, are highly esteemed in the US, especially the humorous ones, and we seldom see them on our own TV. Even when the same brands are sold on both sides of the Atlantic, companies seem to always want to produce different ads for each market.