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Now this is a toothpaste commercial—a real kick up the jacksie for a sector that often gets the, er, brush-off. Directed by Finn Keenan, the ad starts on a bit of a meta note, when a woman spots another Parodontax ad on the telly as she spits blood into the sink, Corsodyl-style. Best nip to the shop, then, eh?

13 August 2026 - 15:36

In Short

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Monzo
'Integrated Accounting'


In the last of four spots directed by Daniel Wolfe for Monzo, a van driver plumps for 'Careless Whisper'... and it's the sound of a man who's got a captive audience of two.

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Matilda Mann
'After the Love'


The humble treadmill has featured in music videos for the likes of OK Go ('Here It Goes Again'), Madonna ('Don’t Tell Me'), and Tony Christie '(Is This The Way To) Amarillo', and now Matilda Mann.

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Depop
'Laundry is Hard'


Part four of this Depop campaign, 'Laundry is Hard', reveals that Zara Larsson likes to perform "three sets of LOLs" every afternoon (Lord help us), among other tasks.

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Monzo
'Salary Sorter'


Monzo's 'Get Busy Living' playlist features the Who, George Michael, Wheatus, and Van Morrison, with the latter's 'Days Like This' used to promote a Salary Sorter tool.

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Tesco
'Restaurants'


If the Ptarmigan in the Cairngorms is the highest restaurant in the UK (3,599ft above sea level) and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High is—you guessed it—the highest (882ft above ground level), then we need a ruler for this Tesco ad, pronto.

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Honda Super-N
'Small Car, Big City'


When devising an advertising campaign for a small car, agencies have a strong tendency to lean into the idea that they are fun because they are small, and this ad for Honda's Super-N vehicle is no different.

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Topo Chico
'Hiss'


Carbonated water brand Topo Chico delivers a lovely slice of serpentine silliness from across the pond, as snakes are attracted to the sound of a can being opened.

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Len
'Pick Up the Phone'


Director Jade Ang Ackman's take on our "omni-surveillance" society is a black-white-gold promo for Len (or Len Lucci, if you want to be formal).

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Tesco
'Rides'


When the government announced its Great British Summer Savings scheme—an attempt to make theme park, zoo, and museum tickets cheaper for families—Tesco took notice.

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Monzo
'Joint Account'


Monzo's 'Get Busy Living' campaign continues with a spot soundtracked by 'Teenage Dirtbag', the Wheatus song that now makes us think… joint accounts?

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Ford
'Go Together'


Ford makes an exhibition of itself in this 30" commercial. Wait, scratch that—Ford has made a 30" commercial about the Exhibition, a chonky SUV that brings out the brand's inner travel writer

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Depop
'Empathy is Hard'


In the latest wayward spot for Depop, Swedish pop star Zara Larsson plays that friend who insists you have their full attention, only to dip in and out of the conversation like a drinking bird.

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Change is afoot at the Sweetshop.

Ore Okonedo has replaced Morgan Whitlock as Managing Director of the Sweetshop UK, with the latter now focusing on the company's nascent AI wing, The Gardening.club. The former, meanwhile, hopes to be "the final piece in the jigsaw that completes and complements the London office", where "a solid infrastructure, brand, history, and a great roster of directors" live.

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Freefolk installs Matt Fisher as Head of Creative Technology.

Freefolk's new Head of Creative Technology—its first ever Head of Creative Technology, in fact—is none other than Matt Fisher, who's got VFX, AI, and more on his plate. Before he tucks in, Fisher says: "It's a genuine opportunity to shape future post production workflows, and change the way media is created. All while preserving the craft that makes this profession so great."

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Covert installs Guido Ekkers as Creative Director.

Covert has a new Creative Director in the form of Dutch VFX whizz Guido Ekkers. Before his first Covert mission gets underway, Ekkers says: "From the very first chats, it felt like a great bunch of people who genuinely care about what they make, how they make it, and how to maintain a better work-life balance while still working on cutting-edge films and commercials.”

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Stick with us.

The most popular covers of Wallace Collection's 'Daydream' are by the Günter Kallmann Choir and I Monster (Ford used the latter's to memorable effect in 2006). Barclays prefers the former’s spin on the track, however, using it to promote its Premier range of banking services. With the soundtrack in place, agency VCCP and director Gary Freedman aim to subvert expectations somewhat.

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One Song Away From Crying

Rachel Chinouriri says her new song is about "the precipice of a night out where you know you need to leave and have to make a decision." In fact, "it's a deeper decision because it's less about the night itself, but more about a reflection of a deeper internal conflict with your self value that you haven't looked at yet."

New Signing

Juliet Klottrup and CANADA make it official.

Juliet Klottrup and CANADA have grown so close over the last two years, the company's UK branch thought it best to sign the University of Brighton graduate as both director and photographer. The move follows the release of 'Sisters With Me' for Tom Misch in February—a music video that does both Yorkshire and Cumbria proud.

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New Signing

Jojo King gets a royal welcome at Shift Post.

Los Angeles-based editor Jojo King is now represented by Shift Post in the UK, much to the delight of founder Saam Hodivala and executive producer Kirsty Oldfield.

Dancing with the drumstick.

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If KFC wants UK viewers to believe in chicken, then Australians are encouraged to go full chicken. What does that mean exactly? Well, for one dashing KFC employee, at least, it means getting to work early, putting on a pair of ice skates, then dancing with a giant drumstick to Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. Naturally.

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I hear you , baby.

In this ad for Specsavers, Tom Findlay and Andy Cato from Groove Armada reminisce engagingly about the rave culture of their heyday. We'll set aside the fact that the lads seem to think they invented dancing – DAVID is not sure he can agree that dancing was a niche activity until they came along – but the doc-style approach works extremely well, and the visual effects used to illustrate 1990s culture has been beautifully done.

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Jarring surrealism.

This ad for Karen Betts is subversive from start to finish, never more so than when the protagonist unleashes a disguised f-bomb towards the end. Director Chloe Victoria Hughes gives the film a surreal quality which seems likely to appeal to a target audience raised on a diet of short form video, with its tendency towards instant gratification

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Think once, think twice, think bike.

As is often the way with Irish road safety films, this PSA contains a shocking reconstruction of a nasty collision with some great stunt work captured by director Chris Balmond. The language of satire is then used to set up the idea that the man who has caused the incident can have a second opportunity... an opportunity to rerun events with more diligence.

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Dance Dance Dance!

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In the face of rogue AIs and unfettered 'progress', us meatbags have to stick together. That said, the robot in this Dan French-directed music video still pulls off a cowboy hat better than most humans ever will. To the strains of 'Dance Dance Dance!' by Barry Can't Swim, a humanoid robot chucks in its job as a waiter to become a real mover and shaker.

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Sweet July

Take That are reunited with their old mucker Vaughan Arnell for this part-animated promo supporting the release of their latest single, 'Sweet July'.

12 August 2026 - 16:12

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Short Film

Did we lose him?

Dante Ariola, director of commercials such as 'Cranpus' for Ocean Spray and 'Soul' for Mercedes-Benz, has made a short film about loss. A most unusual kind of loss, it has to be said. As Nick (Nick Thune) turns forty-four, he's not fussed by presents or even a party. Instead, he tells us what he’s always wanted: to lose somebody. "Not like death, like… like somebody’s following me and I have to lose them. Like I'm Jason Bourne."

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It's not me, it's you.

DAVID's never witnessed a break-up in public, but adland likes to serve one up every so often. The latest comes courtesy of Raylo, a subscription-based service that lets people lease electronic goods like smartphones, laptops, games consoles, and the like. Technology, after all, can make people restless after a while.

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Out here in the fields.

If Olivia Colman tells you to "get busy living", chances are you'll do it. She comes across as the kind person you would hate to let down (spoiler alert for 'Paddington in Peru'—she will point a gun at your face, if necessary). Online bank Monzo, whose new campaign she voices, hopes it doesn't come to that, of course.

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Boom, not bust.

DAVID's sad to say Currys doesn't sell boomboxes like the one seen in this 30" commercial. If they did, only the strongest music lovers in the land could hold them aloft à la John Cusack in 'Say Anything''. Not everyone has to sweat it, though—all the man with the mullet has to do is hold an HP Omnibook and pour his heart out to a customer.

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Out of the dark.

Actimove’s new campaign is all about the pain barrier and those who push through it. Injured athletes often describe themselves as being in a dark place, and that’s precisely where the protagonist of agency Publicis and director Quentin Deronzier finds herself. To make her bike ride in the black void even bleaker, the floor turns into thick tar crossed with a symbiote from 'Spider-Man'.

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Are you right there, Roy?

The 2026 World Cup delivered a bevy of "game's gone" moments, from the half-time show nobody asked for to commentators talking about NBA/NFL-style quarters. In Sky Bet's 2026-27 season curtain raiser, however, it's yet another interminable VAR check that gets Roy Keane's goat. Micah Richards, the yin to Keane's yang, thinks the Irishman needs some perspective.

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Animal confusion.

confused.com continues its mission to explain to the British public how good it feels to know you saved money using their service. This time, agency Leo has a turned to Blinkink directors Andy & Adeena to bring their scripts to life, and unleashed some witty animals on the audience... if only a price comparison site had thought of this before?!

Who dairies, wins.

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When former NFL star JJ Watt and his wife Kealia, an ex-USA football international, invested in Burnley FC—yes, that Burnley FC—fans wondered what kind of presence they'd have, if any. Three years and change later, we can confirm JJ is a different breed of minority investor who stars in a commercial about a kit he designed.

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Get Jeter.

New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter would love to take it easy in retirement. The first-world problem is that Arena Club, the brand he co-founded in 2022 with entrepreneurs Brian Lee and Jesse Glass, has struck a chord with sports and entertainment card collectors everywhere. When he's spotted in the street by an Arena Card user, you'd better believe the chase is on.

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Morse code.

The Giveback is well underway as Reebok's K-Trap-led campaign hits the streets of London. Part two of director Otis Dominique's caper is a charity drive of sorts—with a van chock-full of trainers, K-Trap and company donate as many as possible (by donate, we mean stop at the lights and chuck them over). Why get out of the van when you can just roll the window down, eh?

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K-Trap's got the goods.

South London rapper K-Trap likes Reebok—so much so that he's nicked a whole pallet’s worth of trainers. Always one step ahead of the police, K-Trap and his gang are more like Robin Hood and his merry men, as it happens. Once he's examined the merchandise, the man from Lambeth kicks the great "giveback" into gear.

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Colour me this.

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The conceit at the heart of this splendid commercial for Foot Locker is that the retailer has been the one reliable constant in the ever-changing realm of sports footwear, and this narrative is cleverly constructed through the prism of colour. Director Kim Gehrig commandingly blends archive footage, an excellent voice-over performance from Method Man, and a music track that builds to a perfect crescendo.

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Colourful developments at Freefolk.

Freefolk has a brand new colour department powered by Duncan Russell, Marty McMullan, Matt Turner, Peter Oppersdorff, and Vic Parker.

10 August 2026 - 09:09

10 August 2026 - 09:09

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Who cares for the carer?

American jerky brand Chomps becomes the latest brand to go down the nature documentary route. Directed by Torstein Bjørklund, 'The Nature of the Nocturnal' centres not around a bat, badger, or barn owl, but a doctor on the night shift. It may not have the same allure as iguana versus snakes or red crabs on Christmas Island, but the brand thinks it suits the David Attenborough format.

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Too Polite

A commercial or music video is off to a good start if it reminds DAVID of 'A Bit of Fry and Laurie'. In a bid to make rap more respectful, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie performed 'Be Nice', a song about what a "good-ass mother-liker" does to make the world a better place ("Neighbours come calling, holding out a cup/ So I get out the sugar and I fill it right up"). Cut from the same cloth is TikTok rapper Eric, who's "too polite" to lash out at rude sorts.

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Fuel crisis.

Why fight hunger when you can end it? That's what US grocery brand Albertsons wants to know. With food insecurity on the rise and the American Dream in freefall, the company wants action to be taken. One in five children already go hungry, it says—and since when is playtime better on an empty stomach? To ram home the point, director esteban reminds viewers what free time for well-fed boys and girls is supposed to look and sound like.

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