Emerging from lockdown can feel like a challenging time for any of us, but job-seekers left in the lurch by the pandemic may be unsure where to even begin in a new world. This hopeful ad for LinkedIn offers a route out of the darkness, demonstrating how online connections translate into real-world results.

The film follows the journey of one candidate and his neglected houseplant, who glow-up in tandem as the guy tends to his career. From online seminars to support on interview day, it's a neat look at how a job-focused social network can be useful in our now digitally-focused world.

Director David Edwards handles the narrative flow nicely here, with the action brightening in stages as the main character's mood steadily improves. The now-thriving plant finding a new home in its owner's office is a lovely note to end on, too.

Inadequate broadband proves too much for the cast of this madcap BT commercial, resulting in some violent personality changes. Driven by a cover of Basement Jaxx's 'Where's Your Head At', the ad taps into the frustration of cooped-up internet users with gusto.

Standouts include a woman whose anger reaches literal new heights; a man broken by too many utterances of "Reconnect the router at the mains"; and a suburban ninja who uses rulers instead of swords on her router. That's where the advertised broadband provider come in.

They claim their EE-enhanced wifi is "unbreakable", which comes too late for maimed routers up and down the country. Yet for everyone else, it's an entertaining and persuasive piece of slapstick violence courtesy of directors The Sacred Egg.

We have to assume that moments before the agency was due to present this to the client that the art director lured the copywriter into a fancy corporate bathroom, into a toilet cubicle where the latter was bound and gagged by the former. With full control of the commercial secured, the art director implemented a vision where style doesn't just have the upper hand over substance, it's smothered it.

Thankfully, under these difficult circumstances, the agency turned to the automotive geniuses at Bang TV and their mysteriously named director Cokau. Their considerable experience of wringing every drop out of scripts like this proved invaluable.

The aggregate impact of the commercial is to remind the audience that this is the smoothest and most luxurious ride in town… and, along the way, Cokau puts the urbane in urban imagery to great effect.