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For multi-talented artist Mette Towley, "music is everything and dance is everything else". It's a formula that works rather well for 'Coming of Age', a breathless music video she co-directs with Helen Morales. If you like copious costume changes and choreography that stretches the performer's muscles and then some, this should do the trick.

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In the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup 2026, Adidas’s new campaign for its Originals collection shifts the spotlight beyond the stadium, celebrating the culture that surrounds the game. Directed by Jack Begert, the campaign unfolds through a series of striking short films shot on the streets, where vibrant colours, passionate fans from across the globe, and the buzz of large crowds take centre stage.

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Director Olivia de Camps is currently in a rich vein of form and this ad for email service Proton keeps it that way. A 60" horror film that ratchets up the tension in a way that makes you check all the doors and windows are locked, it claims that "tech companies track us from the moment we're born". Goody gumdrops, eh?

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This is the strongest of five new commercials made by BBH for Monzo for the Irish market which are predicated around the idea that the world has been waiting for Internet banking. In this execution, a young woman's photo booth experience in 2005 is ruined by a friend asking her whether it is yet possible to use a debit card overseas without incurring an additional transaction cost.

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Bukayo Saka's recent dip in form is a sore spot for Arsenal fans. The winger's latest commercial for Nando's, however, is a sauce spot. First launched in 2024, his take on peri-peri is back for—you guessed it—a limited time only, and he's got a lot invested in this shipment. That's why he dons a hi-vis vest to help pack and load each bottle.

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We're a little bit late to the party with this wind-up wonder for service station chain Ampol as it was actually first broadcast last year but we had to add it as it is such good fun.

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Unless you have been hiding under a rock (or work in an agency creative department, which is much the same thing) you will be aware that the biggest TV sensation of the last twelve months was 'Heated Rivalry', so it was shrewd of Peloton to turn to Hudson Williams – one of its stars – to front a commercial drawing attention to the range of exercise options now available when you sign up to their fitness programmes.

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This highly effective spot for Toyota's RAV4 has its tongue slightly in its cheek but nonetheless provides a serious reminder of what the 'R' in RAV4 stands for. A family that has lost its mojo when it comes to recreation is delighted to re-engage with the outside world with the help of the advertised vehicle. This is a much better proposition than the one usually used by car manufacturers where they pretend that rugged men are going to drive their rugged vehicle across rugged terrain.

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Adland loves wrestlers. Over the years, they've been used to promote chocolate, productivity software, meat substitutes, and more, with colourful costumes and hefty muscles used to help products stick in viewers minds. The latest brand to break out the baby oil is Seek, an Australian employment website that knows how much a bad hire can rock the boat.

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You can tell MegaMobile is evil by the musical sting that plays before we enter its colossal headquarters. Is it run by evil geniuses? Sort of—if you don't like the way an arrow points on a chart, for example, rotate it and insist the company's "killing it". That's when straight-shooter Natalie turns it back and reveals the network speed is down in the dumps.

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This short film by Kathryn Everett for Kotex shines a light on menstrual art, while tracing the phases of history when such expression was censored, dismissed, or erased. Strikingly, some of those 'missing' chapters aren’t as distant as we might like to think.

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Want some good news at long last? Entries for Ciclope 2026 are now open across eleven sections and forty—count 'em, FORTY—categories. Two of those sections, For Good and Short Films, are brand new, with the former geared towards work about sustainability and social impact and the latter home to non-branded fiction, documentary, and experimental fare.

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'Great Pretender' doesn't fill us with confidence about Kasabian's forthcoming ninth studio album, 'Act III'. Serge Pizzorno took over as lead vocalist from Tom Meighan in 2020, but never truly replaced him. He's got some presence, but it's not enough to make cursory introspection ("Where do you go if you don't know who you are?") and repetitive cries of "We can dance again, dance again" compelling.

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Paco Cruz directs four bite-sized spots for JCPenney, the American department store chain that supposedly has "exactly what you are (and aren't) looking for".

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This superb paean to self-belief featuring animals conjured by VFX centres on a freedom-loving bird looking to escape the clutches of a gilded cage. As a bespoke version of Frank Sinatra's 'That's Life' foreshadows a coming setback, tremendous ingenuity is used to loosen the bonds of captivity and make an optimistic dash for the outside world.

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As France bid to win their first Women's Six Nations title since 2018, this champion spot for AXA imagines what les hommes thought when they found out women wanted to play rugby. Already salty about having to share football and tennis with the opposite sex, one besuited gatekeeper moans: "Once again, we'll have to defend one of our finest sports from the heresy threatening it."